US airforce finally admitted that they have worse planes.

[Crazy_Ivan]

Tumanskis were one of the options with the old version (the F-5 + 15%, Azarakhsh I) with the new one (Azarakhsh II) they probably went for the PW copies they had on stock instead, which they can maintain in house instead of having to send it to Moscow when they need repairs.

The Shafaq is the same as the Russian \'Project Integral\', which sometimes is mentioned as MiG-I-2000. While it wasn\'t designed by a MiG engineer, it was part of the LFI project entry by the MiG OKB. MiG stopped with the LFI project, probably because of money. Sukhoi went ahead with their S-55 (downsized flanker), and Iran started with the Mikoyan LFI leftovers that eventually evolved to the Shafaq

The thing with Iran is that they probably provided NKorea, China and Russia with knowledge of every nut and bolt of the F4, F5 and F14 in exchange for anything they could use to keep their own stuff flying... and they seem to be succesful in that, with about 20 out of 70 F-14s still flying around whitout official access to any spares, and that after a huge air war which involved the most modern stuff the French (mirage) and Russians (various migs and sukhois) wanted to show off