09-23-2009, 12:44 PM | #1 |
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Iran loses its only AWACS as Ahmadinejad threatens the world
http://www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6280
Up above a big military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as Iranian president declared Iran's armed forces would "chop off the hands" of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources disclose. The proud military parade, which included a march-past, a line of Shehab-3 missiles and an air force fly-past, was planned to give Ahmadinejad a dazzling send-off for New York and add steel to his UN Assembly speech Wednesday. Dubbed "Simorgh" (a flying creature of Iranian fable which performs wonders in mid-flight), the AWACS' appearance, escorted by fighter jets, was to have been the climax for the Iranian Air force's fly-past over the parade. Instead, it collided with one of escorting planes, a US-made F-5E, and both crashed to the ground in flames. All seven crewmen were killed. Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution's founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine. According to Western observers, no distress signals came from either cockpit indicating that the collision and explosions were sudden and fast. DEBKAfile's military sources say the disaster was a serious blow to the Iranian Air Force not long after its first and only AWACS went into service in April 2008. It was a renovated version of the Russian Ilyushin 76, part of Saddam Hussein's air force before it was transferred to Iran in 1991 during the first Gulf War. Tehran hired Russian technicians to carry out renovations and install up-to-date radar. At the launching ceremony of the upgraded AWACS, Air Force commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani boasted its new radar systems were made in Iran and able to spot any airplane or missile at a distance of 1,000 kilometers from Iran's borders. The loss of this airborne control system has left Iran's air force and air and missile defenses without "electronic eyes" for surveillance of the skies around its borders. ::
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Lol. Somone needs to get a picture of the collision for a fail pic.
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Looks like he'll be ordering a rush shipment of "Extenz" instead
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09-23-2009, 02:48 PM | #7 |
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Wow, seriously, for us to loose one is nothing, we got a bunch of them sitting on a shelf somewhere, for Iran to loose one, that is their entire national defense strategy. Seriously, they are completely open. And to loose an F15 too they dont have too many of those, and what is even worse is their need for good spare parts, and to loose a whole plane really screwed them
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Yeh yeh yeh, still an outdated plane with few or no spares available which arent questionable quality black market or canibalized off the few other aircraft they have remaining in their fleet, which dates back to before the iranian revolution in the 70s
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