Iran’s HESA Kowsar and Saeqeh fighter jets, touted by Tehran as advanced, “100 percent indigenously made” fourth-generation ...

In 1997, Iran announced that the Iranian Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA) was developing a domestically-produced jet fighter called the Azarakhsh (“Lightning”) which supposedly ...

On June 25, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that three new domestically built HESA Kowsar jets were delivered to the military. In a ceremony marking the delivery, military officials once ...

The Saeqeh has been deployed to an operational unit, the Twenty-Third Tactical Fighter Squadron based in Tabriz, in northwest Iran, where it has been conducting reconnaissance missions.

The front section of the new fighter (an advanced version of the Saeqeh, a modified F-5 with Hornet-like tails) is attached to the tail of a Tu-154 testbed that will be used for high speed tests.

Iran’s “indigenous” HESA Saeqeh is a reverse-engineered Northrop F-5 Tiger, partially disguised with a twin tail. Designers copied systems one-for-one wherever possible, substituting Russian ...

One of those (then) allies was pre-revolutionary Iran, which bought about 125 of them in the 1960s and 1970s. The Saeqeh is based on the F-5 body with Russian weapons and canted tails, among other ...

He went to Hesa Air base in Shahin Shahr near Esfahan to see the flight. He has gambled on this aircraft, promising that it will be used as a training plane and can reach full-scale production soon.

The United States placed five Chinese companies on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for supplying components to Iran drone builders.The US Treasury indirectly tied the Chinese companies to Russian ...

WASHINGTON: The United States placed five Chinese companies on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for supplying components to Iran drone builders. The US Treasury indirectly tied the Chinese ...