TEHRAN, April 23, YJC - Iranian CEO of Armed Forces Aerial Industries says with Kouthar training jet manufactured, the training needs of Iran’s Army Air Forces will be fulfilled completely.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Brigadier General Abdolkarim Banitaraf, the CEO of Armed Forces
Aerial Industries, said that the recently-made Kouthar training jet has been
developed based on the the training needs of Iran Air Force.
Noting that manufacturing products of this ilk indicates Iranian experts’
high potential and capability in aerial industries, Banitaraf added that manufacturing
the jet could completely fulfill the training needs of army air force and that
over the next 3 years a sufficient number of the jet will be produced and and
delivered to armed forces.
" the jet by no means is a copy nor the one reversely engineered. Its
body and other systems have been designed from scratch” he asserted.
Continuing, General Banitaraf said that Iran’s Army Force drills
and aerial parades indicates that Iran have reached self-sufficiency in
aircraft building, maintenance, and overhaul as well as designing and making
aviation simulators, complicated aircraft pieces with no dependence on any
foreign country.