Repainting 60-year-old fighter jets and branding them as "new homegrown military achievements."
For decades, the Islamic Republic has relied on American F-5 and F-4 Phantom fuselages acquired by the Shah in the 1960s and 70s—the very aircraft that defended Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. Over half a century later, the regime applies minor avionics tweaks, slaps on a fresh coat of paint, and showcases them as domestic aviation breakthroughs.
The boast of building a "heavy fighter" is nothing more than recycling pre-1979 F-4 Phantoms. The illusion of indigenous defense supremacy quickly unravels when its backbone remains decades-old purchases of the previous era.
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