imperial iranian air force

What if the Iranian revolution never succeeded.. either changes were made that prevented it from occurring, or that it occurred but failed. How would it affect US relations with Iran? Would they still continue to import US weapons? Iran relations with other Mid-East countries? would there...

If Iran had bought the A-10 in sufficient numbers, they had been delivered and entered service, what, if any, impact would they have had on the course of the Iran-Iraq war? Chris

Hopefully this is the right forum for this. A bit of browsing on the Flight International archive yields this gem from 1974: http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1974/1974%20-%201113.PDF Then, five years later, http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1979/1979%20-%200470.PDF The...

Flight, December 1979: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1979/1979%20-%204616.html Sounds a little like the work that was performed to create '135Qs. Possibly linked to the proposed sale of F-12s to Iran? Alternatively, E-Systems did a lot of work on the RC- variants for the...

Hello, Recently i found out a PDF file regarding Military sells of US to Iran before the revolution. The part of the text mentions that Shah was curious to know whether is it possible to equip the P-3Fs and Helicopters to AWG-9 and ultimately AIM-54 Phoenix missile. According to...

In 1978/1979 Iran Ordered 1(?) , Boeing 747 for Shah of Iran for the transport and other purposes, before and as of now Iran uses 707,727 and 737, Falcon for the transportation of high rank diplomats, and president , etc !..

Well, don't forget Iran... it's a well-known fact that some upgraded Arrows found their way to Iran in 1972. The Shah was exasperated by Soviet Mig-25RB overflying its country... Phantoms were not powerfull enough, F-14 and F-15 were prototypes five years from export... Iranian Arrows scared...