Fakour-90 Missiles For Iran's F-14 Fighters.How they Effect tha Balance of power in the Persian Gulf

Today In This Video We are talking about Fakour-90 Missile For Iran's T-14 And we see that how they affect the balance of power in the Persian club. During the Iran-Iraq War the most dominant aerial warfare asset and the only one from the new fourth generation of aircraft to be deployed was the Iranian F-14 Tomcat. The F-14 was not only the most advanced fighter in the conflict, but also the heaviest and by far the most costly having been designed for the U.S. Navy and far exceeding the acquisition and operational costs of the U.S. Air Force's own top fighter the lighter F-15. Iran was the only client in the world for the F-14, acquiring 79 fighters in the mid-late 1970s and having planned to acquire 81 more before a change in government in 1979 ended prospects for a deal. F-14s destroyed more Iraqi fighters than the rest of the Iranian military combined, and they remain Iran's most capable fighters today. The fighter's performance was built around its very large and potent sensor suite and its use of the AIM-54 Phoenix air to air missile, a heavy weapon no other American fighter was large enough to deploy and which pioneered active radar homing technologies and had a long 190km range and a very high Mach 5 speed.

Although Iran’s fleet of U.S. made combat aircraft had been expected by Western analysts to be out of service within a decade due to shortages of parts, and this particularly applied to the F-14 which was both extremely complex and parts for which were extremely scarce internationally due to the scarcity of foreign operators, Iran able to develop a domestic industry to sustain and produce parts for them. In order to prevent the F-14s from becoming obsolete Iran would invest heavily in modernising the fighters domestically, with the aircraft receiving new cockpit displays, electronic warfare systems and other avionics improvements. The aircraft also integrated Russian R-77 air to air missiles which, unlike the American AIM-54, could be replenished and were also much lighter allowing the Tomcat to retain a good flight performance. In 2013 a never before seen yet familiar air to air missile, the Fakour-90, was displayed and bore a strong resemblance to the AIM-54. The new missile boasted several improvements over the original Phoenix missile which it was clearly based on including a superior guidance system, new electronic warfare countermeasures and an enhanced range. The new guidance system was approximately 30% smaller, and based on the reduced weight of the more modern systems and potential for added propellants the missile's range was estimated at 220-300km. The Fakour's guidance system was reportedly similar to that used on the Mersad surface to air missile.

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