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Iran shows off new fighter jet
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Published: 20.09.07, 18:35
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1. Still unafraid here in Israel.
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (09.20.07)
2. on the drawingboard it may look good
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (09.20.07)
but the best technology comes from years of experience and innovations derived from the actual battlefield and combat situational conditions, which something iran lacks in the development process. in other words, this is just a bunch of talk to hopefully cover up a host of shortcomings.
3. Next they'll be showing us their biplanes(END)
Mike Rice ,   USA   (09.20.07)
4. This project was begun under the Shah
Zvi   (09.20.07)
Source for this information: http://kamangir.net/2007/09/20/the-islamic-republic-plane-or-an-old-blueprint/ The Shah's effort was no doubt begun with US or possibly even Israeli technology.
5. They must be joking
R.Alkalai ,   USA   (09.20.07)
The only thing anyone will find "blinding" about this Iranian flying 60's retro is the trail of fire it will leave as it explodes. They should try balloons- they have enough hot air.
6. THE WAYS OF THE WORLD
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (09.20.07)
DONT BE SURPRISED TO SEE TORNADOS IN THE IRANIAN AIRFORCE. MONEY IS THE ROUTE OF ALL EVIL AND THE BRIITISH KNOW HOW TO GET IT. E.G.SADAM HUSSEIN AND THE CONTRACT TO SAUDI ARABIA .PERHAPS WHEN ALLTHE IRANIAN PLANES ARE SHOWNTO BE NOT UP TO SCRATCH ANDBLOWN OUT OF THE SKY(,BY BRITISH TORNADOS ) THEY WILL TOUT THE ARMS MARKET AND WITH DIRTY OIL MONEY CONCLUDE A DEAL TO BUY THIS SAME PLANE FOR WHICH BRITAIN WILL BE MOST THANKFUL FOR. AND SO LIFE GOES ON AND ON AND ON....
7. THUNDER IS A TREMENDOUS THREAT
bernard ,   paris   (09.20.07)
........ to all persian fighter pilots.......... . . hagsame'yar.
8. 'thunderbolt'
mike ,   US   (09.20.07)
its a souped up F-5, an airframe thats been around since 1950s. all they did was put indigenous engines on it and add a vertical stabilizer. whats next Ahmanabananajad ?, a localy built Sherman tank lol.
9. amazing!!!!! amazing!!!!
(09.20.07)
does anyone remember when iran said it have found the cure for aids last year???? i hope you all remember that as many many heroin addicts are dying daily in iran from this disease as reported by the center for disease control in atlanta regional international searchc foundation for epidemics around the world. i ask, wjere is this wonderful irania drug against aids the islamic regime boasted about. should't we all see it? same goes for these oh, so blidfull jets that can "blind the enemy's eyes" what a joke! the onlt thing that can blind the iaf and the usa airforce is if their superb pilots fly with bandanas covering their eyes. imbecilc iranians.
10. Makes perfect sense coming from a country that has to import
freedom ,   canada   (09.20.07)
gasoline from other countries because they havent the proper technology to refine crude into gasoline.. So laughable. HAHAHAHA>.... At least for me.
11. #6 Do you have to type in all CAPITAL LETTERS?
(09.21.07)
12. It's a bird, it's a plane, NO it's an Iranian Nyctosaurus
Obama ,   Washington DC   (09.21.07)
13. back to the swinging 60s
zionist forever   (09.23.07)
They believe this thunder is a modern warplane simmilar to the F18 ok lets see them take on an F18 those thunders the pilot will be swining on his parachute watching the remains of his plane trying to land themselves. In the 70s Israel took the French Mirage reverse engineered and improoved to to create a more modern fighter and the KFIR was born. Now the Iranians have taken a much older design than Mirage was revrese engineered the thing modernised it a little built it in Iran itself and suddenly they have the Thunder .. a home grown fighter. If they want a real homegrown fighter then go back to the drawing board take a blank sheet and design and build something dont take an American plane from the 60s modernise it abit and say its an Iranian plane. Keep up the propoganda maybe if you create enough propogada you can make somer kind of bomb out of it which will make a nuke look like a little flash bang and destroy the great saten and the zionist entity.
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