INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
purchase fighter aircraft.
Vahedi announced that purchase of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters from Russia is on the agenda of the air force.He said the
purchase of Sukhoi Su-35 is currently being discussed, rather than Sukhoi Su-30
emphasized that the final decision on purchase of Sukhoi Su-35s from Russia rests with the Army and the Armed Forces General Staff
Headquarters.The Su-35 employs the powerful N035 Irbis-E ("Snow Leopard") passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radar, which is a
further development of the N011M radar that had been evaluated on Su-27M test-beds and constitutes the core of the Su-35's weapons-control
It is capable of detecting an aerial target up to 400 km (250 miles) away, and can track thirty airborne targets and engage eight of them
simultaneously; in addition, the multi-function radar is capable of providing high-resolution images of the ground using synthetic aperture
mode.The aircraft is equipped with an OLS-35 optoelectronic targeting system ahead of the cockpit to provide other forms of tracking
including infra-red search and track
For the purpose of defending against enemy tracking, the Su-35 is equipped with the L175M Khibiny-M electronic countermeasure system, while
engineers have applied radar-absorbent materials to the engine inlets and front stages of the engine compressor to halve the Su-35's frontal
radar cross-section and minimize the detection range of enemy radars.The Su-35 is powered by a pair of Saturn AL-41F1S turbofan engines,
formerly known as izdeliye (Product) 117S
A highly upgraded variant of the AL-31F, the AL-41F1S is related to the Su-57's Saturn AL-41F1 (izdeliye 117), differing primarily in the
engine control system.The engines are equipped with thrust-vectoring nozzles, which have their rotational axes canted at an angle; the
nozzles operate in one plane for pitch, but the canting allows the aircraft to produce both roll and yaw by vectoring each engine nozzle
differently; this configuration was first implemented on the Su-30MKI and is also used on the Su-57.West fears possible Iran-Russia drone
cooperationThe Western media has been rambling on and on about a possible drone deal between Tehran and Moscow.In a news piece published
aerial vehicles over several days this month at an Iranian airfield and then ferried the drones to Russia, three U.S
capabilities have won the attention of military strategists
Also, it is highly important that Iran has been using domestic knowledge to build advanced drones and is ready to export them.Yet, Iran has
actions, and knowledge-based activities should create these
past, we imported barbed wire, but now we export drones
