{"id":150211,"date":"2023-11-28T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150211"},"modified":"2023-11-28T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:26:41","slug":"iran-upgrades-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150211","title":{"rendered":"Iran Upgrades Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/helo.png?resize=300%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/helo.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/helo.png?w=336&amp;ssl=1 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Mil Mi-28<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Iran finalises deal to buy Russian fighter jets &#8211; Tasnim<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>DUBAI, Nov 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran has finalised arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi su-35 fighter jets and helicopters, Iran&#8217;s deputy defence minister told Iran&#8217;s Tasnim news agency on Tuesday, as Tehran and Moscow forge closer military relations.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s air force has only a few dozen strike aircraft, including Russian jets as well as ageing U.S. models acquired before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plans have been finalised for Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets, Mil Mi-28 attack helicopters, and Yak-130 jet trainers to join the combat units of Iran&#8217;s Army,&#8221; Iran&#8217;s deputy Defence Minister Mehdi Farahi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran-finalises-deal-buy-russian-fighter-jets-tasnim-2023-11-28\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where does one suppose the Mad Mullahs got the scratch to purchase Flankers and Havocs from Vlad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mil Mi-28 Iran finalises deal to buy Russian fighter jets &#8211; Tasnim DUBAI, Nov 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran has finalised arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi su-35 fighter jets and helicopters, Iran&#8217;s deputy defence minister told Iran&#8217;s Tasnim news agency on Tuesday, as Tehran and Moscow forge closer military relations. Iran&#8217;s air force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":150212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,308,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-iran","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/helo.png?fit=336%2C210&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-D4L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}