Iran’s locally designed and built new light transport plane, the Simorgh will have obvious military applications
Press TV – Dec 11, 2024
Iran’s new light transport aircraft Simorgh, designed and developed by experts at the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), has successfully conducted a test flight, after it underwent various checks to receive a type certificate.
The turboprop military transport aircraft, named after a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and literature, took the test on Wednesday during the 12th edition of the Iran International Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Iran Airshow 2024, held on Kish Island on the northeast of the Persian Gulf.
“This aircraft has been designed, developed, and manufactured in compliance with international standards and regulations by the Ministry of Defense and [domestic] knowledge-based firms. It was unveiled and flown at this exhibition,” Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Nasirzadeh stated.
He pointed to advances made in Iran’s defense and military spheres, saying that major strides in the aviation industry have been taken over the past few years, and the Islamic Republic can now produce a wide range of sophisticated military hardware.
The Iranian defense chief went on to note that his country has attained self-sufficiency in the aviation industry, emphasizing that Western sanctions “have not managed to undermine our willpower and capabilities.”
For his part, Secretary of the Supreme Economic Coordination Council between heads of the three branches of the Iranian government, Mohsen Rezaei, stressed the importance of military and defense development in order to maintain and strengthen national independence and freedom through reliance on domestic capabilities.
“America and Israel are against the independence of countries, and everyone must be cautious against their conspiracies,” Rezaei pointed out.
Iranian military experts and engineers have in recent years made remarkable breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient.
Iranian officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense, and that Iran’s defense capabilities will never be subject to negotiation.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called for efforts to maintain and expand Iran’s defense capabilities.
Migrant crisis: More than 35,000 migrant scroungers cross the Channel illegally so far this year
Story by Mark White • 1
what about all the legal ones ?
Actually the import of aliens to the UK has never been legal agreed or ratified
by the UK public, so they are all since 1945 illegal,
Keir Starmer accused of ‘shamefully failing’ to crack down on migrants after record-breaking day Labour has been accused of “shamefully failing” to tackle illegal immigration after more than 600 people crossed the Channel by small boat in a single day.
Home Office figures revealed 609 migrants reached Britain on Thursday, marking the highest number recorded in a single December day since data collection began in 2018.
all 3 major political parties ignore the migrants pouring in since 1945
Labour plot to buy 800 homes to house 35,000 asylum seekers presently in luxury hotels
Story by Jonathan Walker
Starmers Home Office plans to buy hundreds of properties for asylum seekers, which will make the acute shortage of housing” even worse.
The Government’s purchase of 800 properties in an attempt to re-house the 35,000 asylum seekers currently in hotels, at a cost to taxpayers of £5.4million per day. The number has risen by almost 6,000 since the election despite Labour’s manifesto pledge to “end asylum hotels”.
While our own folk live hand to mouth and many have no home at all
What a filthy lying commie bastard poof that Starmer is.
No doubt our politicians and business leaders will talk about the level of technology needed to produce these goods and mock anything that doesn’t meet their standards, but all you need are the basic parts and they’re good to go. The rest is just to sell them better. Considering the risks of a plane being brought down by digital sabotage means the old wire-control systems, or at the very least a wire-control manual override, would be a very attractive design feature, if only our own manufacturers would consider it.
Somebody once told me the name Jeep is derived from ‘Just enough essential parts’, and those American jeeps from WWII were so practical even German troops tried to get hold of them to escape in after the Normandy invasion. Nobody needs a car that can do shit you don’t need that can be incapacitated by someone on the other side of the world. You just might want some windows. Similar with planes. All you need is to take off and land safely if the power dies–something our own modern planes cannot do.
“…the independence of countries…”, but Iran fell to Islam early on and is not independent of the priests and their hypocrisy
MM–Jeep, short for GP i.e. General Purpose, wasn’t it?