Comments on: Fauxtography: Iran touts military power with photos of … model airplanes

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By: Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:02:27 +0000

Iran Shows Off Newest Strike Fighters…

And they are the pinnacle of 1974 technology!
Are you done laughing yet, because this story just gets funnier: apparently, the “photos” of the F-14s and the MiG 29s are actually pictures of plastic models!
I can’t find the photo gallery …

By: VekTor

VekTor — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:51:55 +0000

The Irainian fighter looks like a T-38 Talon.

Johan Klaus on July 26, 2008 at 12:26 AM

Ahmadinnerjacket used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than two meters.

By: freevillage

freevillage — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:54 +0000

This so proves that the Iranian threat is imminent.

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:20:09 +0000

Yeah, the post-revolutionary fate of the Iranian F-14’s wasn’t nearly as bleak as some would’ve liked to believe. In fact, during the Iran/Iraq war the Iranian Tomcats scored the type’s only air-to-air kills ever with the Phoenix missile (conversely, though, it also suffered its only losses in air-to-air combat). Inspection of wreckage of Iranian Tomcats downed over Iraq revealed that, even back then, they were manufacturing some of their own replacement parts. Electronics support understandably remains the biggest issue, but the Iranians have been able to keep a number of the type functional largely through cannibalization. A debated number remain in Iranian service today (most likely in the vicinity of 30).

By: firepilot

firepilot — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:06:53 +0000

That plane looks suspiciously like one of the F-14 Tomcats we gave them back before the islamic revolution (when we were friends). Of course, when our Tomcat techs left the country in the middle of said revolution, they made sure to bring with them all the spare parts and service manuals, thus leaving Iran with a dozen or so 30 ton doorstops.

Not entirely correct. The Iranians actually did make pretty good use of them in their war with Iraq, getting lots of kills against Iraqi aircraft. It was a lot more than 12 they had too.

They still have managed to have some of a combat capability, even to this day.

By: Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Should be easy to check if they have a large order of GI Joe.

By: cozmo

cozmo — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:31:20 +0000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461793/posts

is this where the pics came from?

this story confuses me.

Vincenzo on July 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM

No, they come from a model building site.

This one

The builder likes aircraft in middle eastern themes.

Free Republic snagged them and left the builders copyright on them.

Global Security is good, but I like Strategy Page too.

Strategy Page

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:23:42 +0000

It’s peculiar because the offending images, of an F-14A and MiG-29, both depict aircraft actually operated by Iran, and even shows them in Iranian markings (though the earth-tone camouflage on the F-14 has been replaced with an air superiority gray scheme in recent years). So I can’t come up with any motivation for willfull deception–the pictures might be fake, but they really are essentially accurate. My suspicion would be simple incompetence on the part of somebody in Iran who simply couldn’t tell the difference between photos of models and photos of the real thing.

By: Vincenzo

Vincenzo — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:50:43 +0000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461793/posts

is this where the pics came from?

this story confuses me.

By: KW64

KW64 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:08 +0000

I agree with the Israeli officer who obviously watched “The Good the Bad and the Ugly”. If you have decided to strike, they do not need to rattle sabers, just sharpening them will do.

By: MadisonConservative

MadisonConservative — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:26:45 +0000

Ertl…bringing military might to nations run by Islamic doomsday cultists for many years.

By: abinitioadinfinitum

abinitioadinfinitum — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:58:59 +0000

notta_dhimmi on July 26, 2008 at 2:16 AM

That site always has good info.

LegendHasIt on July 26, 2008 at 3:03 AM

True, I think AhmaGenocide believes the 12th imam stuff with every ounce of his being, that is what’s scary.

Wanderlust on July 26, 2008 at 3:42 AM

If we cut off their money for oil, their economy would crumble and then the only way they would be able to attack Israel would be on horseback.

By: abinitioadinfinitum

abinitioadinfinitum — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:41:16 +0000

The Irainian fighter looks like a T-38 Talon.

Johan Klaus on July 26, 2008 at 12:26 AM

It could be, it also looks like a drawing or even a model, my point is that I don’t think Iran really intended to fool but only confuse anyone with those fauxtographs or the photos of the models. With the F 22, I don’t think America has anything to worry about facing the Iranian air force, I think that Iran is only putting out stuff like this for ONE purpose. To buy enough time to enrich enough uranium to a point to make a bomb. The “bomb” is the thing they desire most. IMO
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I just find it hard to believe anyone would be as stupid as the Iranians seem, then again, liberals do exist. :)

By: marklmail

marklmail — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:11:18 +0000

Cool! Plastics vaporize much faster than metals.

By: Mojack420

Mojack420 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:35:22 +0000

Iranians unveils their secret space program

By: astuddis

astuddis — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:09:19 +0000

Haha… I drew the wrong conclusion too!

Sorry, Aikidoka

By: astuddis

astuddis — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:06:26 +0000

Anyone want to wager they will vote for Obama?
aikidoka on July 26, 2008 at 2:54 AM

Iranians are not allowed to vote in US elections.

By: Mojack420

Mojack420 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:57:50 +0000

Iran touts military power with photos of … model airplanes

Time to bring out the big guns

By: LegendHasIt

LegendHasIt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:53:51 +0000

…..The dirty little secret of all the oil-producing nations that foster unrest in the world (including Russia, Venezuela, and to a lesser extent, yes, you, Mexico, by influencing our lack of a border control strategy) is that without revenues from crude oil, their economies are basically nothing.
Wanderlust on July 26, 2008 at 3:42 AM

Excellent point.

By: Wanderlust

Wanderlust — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:42:14 +0000

LegendHasIt on July 26, 2008 at 3:03 AM

For all the joking going on above, I’m with you. A madman holding a live grenade while standing in a crowd is still a threat to the crowd, no matter how insanely silly he may be acting at the moment.

Don’t get me wrong: we *should* laugh at Ahmadinejad and all of his terrorist progeny in the middle east. They absolutely cannot stand humor of any kind. We *should* air every silly f*cked up pronouncement some Imam makes that the good folks at MEMRI expose to the light of day. And we *should* ignore the idiot political Left, whose “the sky is falling!” freakout antics over things like Iran and Iraq belie the fact that their desire for power stands on the continued maintenance of a state of fear (Detente, anyone?).

But in all of this, we should also be ready, willing, and able to put down the madman the moment he acts like he’s going to let go of the grenade handle, and we should do so with all the care and worry that goes into putting down a rabid dog, when it is about to bite you.

Oh, and if we are really serious about defusing the threat that is terrorism in the middle east?

DRILL.

Drill until the US is self-sufficient and doesn’t depend on a single drop of oil from that part of the world.

The dirty little secret of all the oil-producing nations that foster unrest in the world (including Russia, Venezuela, and to a lesser extent, yes, you, Mexico, by influencing our lack of a border control strategy) is that without revenues from crude oil, their economies are basically nothing. For a good example of this, look back to 1998 when oil was $11 dollars a barrel (thanks, Nancy, for helping oil go to $140/bbl), when the Russians were in the poorhouse and Saudi Arabia was scrambling to find money to support all of its welfare programs.

Take the money away from the idiots.

DRILL. NOW.

By: LegendHasIt

LegendHasIt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:03:14 +0000

Heck, they don’t even need a Piper Cub.
All they have to do is build a couple of nukes, send one to Israel via a panel truck, and stick the other in a container and have it shipped to the port of New York, San Diego, Seattle, etc.

Their goal is not to win an actual war; all they want is to start Armageddon and usher in the 12th Imam. You don’t need massive amounts of hardware for that, and the marching uniformed imbeciles are only for controlling their own populace.

When are you people going to understand that this isn’t a conventional type war; It isn’t even like a cold war /MAD scenario….. It isn’t even the Crusades anymore.

By: aikidoka

aikidoka — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:54:48 +0000

Unfortunately, too many people will draw the wrong conclusion from this. Instead of realizing this is proof that the Iranian govt. cannot be trusted, they’ll say Iran is obviously not a threat.

Anyone want to wager they will vote for Obama?

By: notta_dhimmi

notta_dhimmi — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:16:40 +0000

I can’t find the photo gallery on the Foreign Ministry website

Allah –

For info on Iran’s Air Force (or anyome else’s for that matter) try here: GlobalSecurity.org: Iran – Air Force

HTH