Talk:Air force history of Iran

Iranian nuetrality in WW2
The allies didn't invade Iran for its neutrality but for leaning towards the axis powers despite its decleration of neutrality. I have made the necessary changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sennaista (talk • contribs) 20:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

IRIAF?
I ended up here from the random Page link and it jumps out to me that IRIAF isn't defined where it is used in the first sentence. Perhaps it should be obvious but I don't know what it means, perhaps someone could correct this so that the article is readable by people with all levels of familiarity with the subject. Thanks. Stardust8212 23:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Article title
The article title should be Imperial Iranian Air Force. Atashparast 02:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Iiaflogo.gif
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BetacommandBot 21:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

F-14s Sabotaged?
Didn't I read somewhere the IIAF's F-14s were "allegedly" sabotaged by Grumman engineers as they fled Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution? —xanderer (talk) 21:46, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Logo removed.
I took out the logo because of it's size interfering with the other photos in the article. See the previous versions for examples. Articseahorse (talk) 13:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. Could the logo image not just be made smaller or, moved to another part of the article, so that it would not interfere with the other photographs? That could be a way around the issue. It is a relevant image for the article and would be a shame if it could not be preserved in it, in some way. --Dreddmoto (talk) 22:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)


 * If we can make it smaller and find a better place that would be good. but  But I do not know how to do that.

(Articseahorse (talk) 01:30, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

There is a way. Move all the images in the article, down by one space. That means, put the logo image in the position of what is currently the first image. Then, move the first image to the position of what is currently the second image. Continue in that way, until the last image is reached. When it is, move the last one down to a new position, where no image currently exists.

That should be a simple way to do it. --Dreddmoto (talk) 09:47, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * If you can do that I would say go for it. I am not good enough to make those adjustment.

Articseahorse (talk) 00:14, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

It has been done now. --Dreddmoto (talk) 11:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

F-16s in the Iran Air Force.
Here is a photo of a F-16 with Iran markings. Have there been any F-16s in Iran

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F-16_Fighting_Falcon_of_Imperial_Iranian_Air_Force.jpg

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-venezuela-supplied-iran-with-f-16-to-prepare-for-possible-strike.premium-1.443406


 * Mostly just rumors - photo appears to have been taken in Venezuela. See: https://theaviationist.com/2012/08/20/iran-f16/

Imperial era
In the section titled "Imperial era", there is information about Iranian F-14 Tomcats after, the 1979 Iranian revolution. It is the following:

'''Although after the 1979 Iranian revolution, some of these planes were not in working order due to a lack of necessary spare parts, because of an American arms embargo and damage sustained on the aircraft during the Iraqi invasion (Iran–Iraq War). Some were brought back in to service, due to localised production of reverse-engineered, Iranian-made, spare parts as well as "cannibalism" (the process of taking working parts from damaged aircraft and using them to repair others).'''

Considering that this is about the Tomcats in the time after, the 1979 revolution; in other words, the Islamic Republic of Iran: it would make more sense to move that information down to, the section titled "Post-Islamic Revolution". The wording of, the first part of the sentence would have to be slightly modified, in order to do this. --Dreddmoto (talk) 12:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Title of the article
For some unexplained reason the title of this article was changed to History of Iranian military aviation. This is misleading because it would give the impression to unfamiliar readers that the air force of Iran is the only form of military aviation in that country. That is clearly not the case considering the existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Army_Aviation, the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Navy_Aviation and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps_Aerospace_Force

It would be more logical to change the title to reflect that. I suggest a change to Air force history of Iran. Views of others would be welcome. Dreddmoto (talk) 15:38, 15 October 2023 (UTC)