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Oh yeah, those are F-14's alrightView attachment 918407
First time finding something by myself with google satellites feels good These are F-14s right?
there are 5 F-14s parked at this location 32.765898252650324, 51.89775556546859
Unfortunately, Putin may not truly learn from this experience, or maybe he will. His attempts at catering to Israel will not lead to anything positive for him. When push comes to shove, they will always side with NATO.Russia is very picky with their arms. Politics comes before profit.
Unfortunately, Putin may not truly learn from this experience, or maybe he will. His attempts at catering to Israel will not lead to anything positive for him. When push comes to shove, they will always side with NATO.
Unfortunately, Putin may not truly learn from this experience, or maybe he will. His attempts at catering to Israel will not lead to anything positive for him. When push comes to shove, they will always side with NATO.
Appreciate the post. I was more referring to the relationship of the last 10-15 years than the current environment.Iran-Russia relations including in the strategic and military realm are at an all time high, with unprecedented acts of cooperation taking place as we speak. Possible supply of Sukhoi fighter jets to Iran will further underscore this state of affairs.
Likewise, ties between post-Soviet Moscow and Tel Aviv are at an all time low as we speak. Russia went as far as shutting down the local branch of the Jewish Agency, the main zionist organization supervizing Jewish migration to Occupied Palestine. There was speculation that Netanyahu's return might be followed by a renewed bilateral rapprochement with Russia at Iran's expense, but these attempts have failed resoundingly and Russia signaled it is not willing to distance itself from Iran in exchange for whatever offer the Netanyahu regime made.
So I fail to see what would warrant your skepticism and what attempts to cater to Isra"el" you mean. At the moment the opposite is the case since it's the zionists who are currently trying to cater to Russia but failing at it. Russia will side with NATO in case of a military aggression on Iran, you say? Nothing could be more disconnected from ground reality.
More generally speaking, the transition towards a multipolar system is perfectly inevitable and underway at a sustained and satisfactory pace even if the American propaganda would want is to believe otherwise.
There's nothing the empire can do to stop it, it's doomed and knows it. What they may try is to delay the process and that's very much it. Western-instigated domestic disturbances affecting Iran, Russia or China are anything but signs of irremediable NATO supremacy - on the contrary, they're reflecting the last throes of an empire on its way out, which in despair is throwing at its adversaries everything it can realistically muster. To no avail though, since none of these attempts at interference have achieved to jeopardize the ongoing emergence of alternate poles of power at the global stage.
Speaking of societal fissures moreover, it's not as if these were sparing the USA nowadays. Protests against Covid lockdowns in China were nothing compared to the intense polarization of American society. Conditions are gathered in this regard for the USA to be far more vulnerable than China and far closer to potential implosion.
As for the notion that emerging nations are oblivious to the need for cooperation against the common foe, it's not true. The absence of a NATO equivalent or of ostentatious but inessential professions of solidarity doesn't mean Iran, Russia and China intend to go it alone. What they need is to calibrate their moves according to the balance of power at any given moment in time. The commonly pursued goal is set and won't vacillate but rash decisionmaking is uncalled for. Right now engaging in all too open formalization of military alliance for instance wouldn't turn to the advantage of resisting powers since the enemy would take it as an escalation and react accordingly.
To offer a concrete example, China is perfectly aware that confrontation with the USA regime is inevitable. Beijing is neither deluding itself, nor reluctant nor fearful about this. From China's perspective however, making sure that the big clash occurs as tardily as possible by toning it down until that very moment, is a smart thing to do. Because with each passing year China happens to be catching up to the USA on every possible indicator. Every year, China's GDP is progressing in comparison to the USA. Every year, the Chinese navy is reducing the gap in firepower with the US navy. And so on. So the later they enter more serious conflicts, the more it will be the advantage of Beijing.
Time definitely isn't on the side of the empire. And fact is that the current level of cooperation between Russia, Iran and China is worrying them to the extreme. This is demonstrated by their policies and by how their "think tanks" are analyzing the situation. Below are the titles and opening paragraphs of two recent papers by the hawkish "Washington Institute for Near East Policy":
Making Iran’s Support for Russia More Costly
by Henry Rome
Jan 5, 2023
To foster doubts about the wisdom of deepening the relationship, Washington should stoke longstanding Iranian skepticism toward Russia and work with Europe to sanction additional entities involved in the drone program.
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After Ukraine: Russia’s Potential Military and Nuclear Compensation to Iran
by Louis Dugit-Gros, Anna Borshchevskaya, Michael Eisenstadt, Farzin Nadimi, Henry Rome
Jan 20, 2023
Despite the obstacles to expanded cooperation, Russian aid could help Tehran promote repression at home and instability abroad, so the United States and its allies should seek to deter such collaboration wherever possible.
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Drawing appropriate conclusions from the above one can either acknowledge how the enemy is effectively treating the relationship between Iran and Russia as a threat to its hegemony, or serve the enemy's proclaimed agenda by downplaying the relevance and impact of Tehran-Moscow ties.
They didn't have one already?
When you buy an aircraft you also buy simulators or you have to send your pilots to the country of origin multiple times. so Iran did have sims for F-14..but F-14s of Iran have gone through modernization programs and also the old sims probably had softwares written in "FORTRAN" or ADA. hard to patch!!....so I bet they are working right now on a Dynamic Sim for F-14.They didn't have one already?
Any Avaiation geeks have any thoughts about this cockpit? This is not really an area I know much about.
Well,heres a picture of the actual F-14A pilots instrument panel.Any Avaiation geeks have any thoughts about this cockpit? This is not really an area I know much about.
BetterLook like there won't be any su-35 for Iran
Better
Who said?Look like there won't be any su-35 for Iran