{"id":81294,"date":"2018-08-22T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81294"},"modified":"2018-08-22T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:04:47","slug":"iran-unveils-homegrown-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81294","title":{"rendered":"Iran unveils homegrown fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kowsar-e1534949674641.jpg\" alt=\"kowsar\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/21\/irans-new-kowsar-fighter-jet-unveiled-by-rouhani.html\">CNBC News<\/a> reports Iran revealed what it claims is a new, domestically-produced fighter jet at a ceremony in Tehran.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, Iranian state television screened images of President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the &#8220;Kowsar&#8221; fighter aircraft, according to Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Designed and manufactured solely by Iranian military experts, the Kowsar is described as a fourth-generation fighter jet, which classifies it among military fighters in service from approximately 1980 to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Lockheed Martin&#8217;s F-35 Lightning II, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and China&#8217;s Chengdu J-20 are considered fifth generation fighters because of their enhanced stealth abilities and computational power.<\/p>\n<p>Tasnim, citing the state television report, said Iran&#8217;s new jet had already been through successful test flights and would soon be ready to carry out shorter distance aerial support missions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any resemblance to Northrop&#8217;s F-5 is purely coincidental. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC News reports Iran revealed what it claims is a new, domestically-produced fighter jet at a &hellip; <a title=\"Iran unveils homegrown fighter jet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81294\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran unveils homegrown fighter jet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}