Iran's Air Force Industry and a new generation of Fighter Aircrafts

[Doostan]

Missed the point.

You all missed the point.

 

[StobieWan]

You all missed the point.

And what, in your opinion, is the point?


You might want to read the forum rules regarding one liners and irrelevant replies as this rather borders on those rules - without a more substantial reply, it's hard to maintain a discussion.

Please, expand on your point.

 

[SpudmanWP]

Holy Necromancers StobieMan!!!

How many pages did he have to go back to find a thread from 2009?

 

[swerve]

Straight in via a search?

 

[StobieWan]

One assumes so - there's little evidence of any general familiarity with the rest of the site

 

[BDRebel]

Fanboys

You'd be suprised how many Iranian fanboys roam the internet.

Indeed. You shouldn't be surprised when you see these fanboys also support Assad's dictatorship/despotism in Syria.

 

[BDRebel]

Iran has a history of greatly exaggerating their weapons development capabilities- see some of the other forums (new tanks etc). One needs to take a large grain of salt with any Iranian claims of new technological breakthroughs.

Speaking of bluffing and exaggerating, read this detailed analysis by David Cenciotti of the Iranian "stealth" fighter.

 

[Feanor]

Indeed. You shouldn't be surprised when you see these fanboys also support Assad's dictatorship/despotism in Syria.

Hmph. Let's keep this discussion focused on the topic at hand.

 

[BDRebel]

The article is mostly garbage of course. But Iranian aerospace industry is impressive when one puts it into perspective. Iran is an pretty poor third world country. The fact that they are even able to design their own aircraft is already impressive.

I disagree. Iran, though a third world country, is oil rich. The people may be poor but the government is rich. How else can they fund a nuclear program and a broad defence industry. Iran ranks 21st by GDP with around 550,000 million US dollars worldwide. It isn't a poor country, its a despotism.

 

[kato]

Iran ranks 21st by GDP with around 550,000 million US dollars worldwide.

For per Capita PPP GDP they're 78th though, mostly owing to the fact that their work force only consists of 25% of their population. They're at almost exactly average worldwide regarding this.

However, that still puts them in line with Brazil. Which sustains its own defense industry at a similar level without despotism. And also used to have a nuclear program.

 

[swerve]

According to the latest (2011) round of the World Bank (with the co-operation of the OECD, EU, UN, & a very large number of national governments) International Comparison Programme, the PPP GDP & GDP per capita of Iran in 2011 were -

GDP: 1314 billion USD. (576 bn at exchange rates)
PC: 17488 USD (7669 at exchange rates)

World PPP GDP PC was 13460 USD, which was marginally less than that of Brazil (14639). Total PPP GDP of Brazil was over twice as much as Iran's, at 2816 bn USD: 7th in the world, after the USA, China, India, Japan, Germany & Russia.

The initial report was published by the World Bank exactly a month ago. Can be downloaded free from its website.