Satellite pics from Iran's military facilities

[phoenix80]

Mehrabad TFB.1 in Tehran

KC-707, B-747, C-130s, F-27s.... are visible

Iranian AWACS and Two C-130s in Shiraz TFB south of Iran

formerly built by Northrop in 1977, this is owj project in Tehran where Iranian AF refurbishes its airplanes.

 

[moving0target]

Further goofing around with Google Earth reveals such odds and ends as an Il-76 or two and quite a few other craft I am not able to ID.

What are the circled aircraft?

 

[phoenix80]

I think those bottom ones are Rockwell Int'l and the one above is an An-74 if I am right

 

[Rabs]

Id say the bottom 2 looked like U2s but id be wrong.

 

[phoenix80]

Id say the bottom 2 looked like U2s but id be wrong.

U2 in Iran? oh come on!

 

[LeEnfield]

I think the two at the bottom of the picture are more likely to be transport aircraft as the fuselages are to thick to be a U2

 

[moving0target]

The wings are far too sort as well. Incidentally, the engines are in the wrong place for the top one to be an An-74. The profile fits something like an An-24 more closely.

 

[5.56X45mm]

Mehrabad TFB.1 in Tehran

KC-707, B-747, C-130s, F-27s.... are visible

Iranian AWACS and Two C-130s in Shiraz TFB south of Iran

formerly built by Northrop in 1977, this is owj project in Tehran where Iranian AF refurbishes its airplanes.

Further goofing around with Google Earth reveals such odds and ends as an Il-76 or two and quite a few other craft I am not able to ID.

What are the circled aircraft?

Looks all like targets to me.... :firedevi:

 

[major liability]

They don't have to be targets. Why does America always blow up the military hardware we find? We should keep it!

 

[Missileer]

Id say the bottom 2 looked like U2s but id be wrong.

The U2 has one engine in the tail of the fuselage.

 

[Maytime]

Why does America always blow up the military hardware we find?

Because it's cheaper that way.

 

[5.56X45mm]

What the hell are we going to do with 20 year old ex-soviet military equipment. It's all Warsaw Pact standard, nothing is compatable with NATO/USA equipment.

 

[phoenix80]

What the hell are we going to do with 20 year old ex-soviet military equipment. It's all Warsaw Pact standard, nothing is compatable with NATO/USA equipment.

Iran's military is 1970-80s NATO equipped armed services

 

[moving0target]

At any rate, the US is in the process of replacing craft that are generations ahead of Iran's best. Why capture something that would, at best, be mothballed?

 

[major liability]

So we can sell it to poor countries of course! And use them as OpFor in training...

 

[Mohmar Deathstrike]

They don't have to be targets. Why does America always blow up the military hardware we find? We should keep it!

You'd have to steal it first...

 

[moving0target]

You'd have to steal it first...

Or take over the country.

 

[Mohmar Deathstrike]

Or take over the country.

...which inclúdes stealing them

 

[moving0target]

Well...if you're "stealing" the country, why bother mentioning the relics in it?

 

[Mohmar Deathstrike]

Well...if you're "stealing" the country, why bother mentioning the relics in it?

Yeh, you're right, that would be trivial