Talk:List of aircraft of the Iranian Air Force

Numbers do not match the source itself

This article is a huge failure. I have just noticed the cited source says Iran has 16 Mig-29s operational, I fixed the article accordingly but someone reverts back the number of Mig-29s to 95. There is no source out there that says Iranian Air Force has 95 Mig-29s. Other numbers must be checked too. Also sources of local upgrade and Indian upgrade for Mig-29s are missing, these links doesn't lead to anywhere thus I removed them. Temren (talk) 05:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, the link for the "Numbers" column is cited but someone is changing the numbers WITHOUT providing any sources for their numbers. Thus I will continue to edit/correct the numbers to only actual source given. These numbers may not be accurate but without an alternative source, no one should just change them without proof. It makes the article look idiotic and poorly put together. Any aircraft numbers in the "Numbers" column that don't match the link for that column WILL BE NOTATED WITH A UNIQUE SOURCE BACKING UP THAT NUMBER. If not, I will return daily to fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.111.120.152 (talk) 04:00, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

One year have passed since my first edit and organizing sources and I still have to reverse numbers back to actual data time to time, and some people still increasing the numbers of active Mig-29 and F-14s without any sources. I think this article must be removed or locked. Temren (talk) 17:07, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Reverted bloated numbers back to the cited source... Someone is playing with these numbers unfortunately. Temren (talk) 22:03, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Movage

Since the deletion debate a new page has surfaced which is linked to in the Iranian AF template, named List of Iranian Air Force Aircraft. I moved it here due to the capitalisation of 'aircraft'. Whether or not this list should be merged into IIAF (again) would be up to others. This list no longer exists in the IIAF article. Joffeloff 18:33, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The Air Force does not operate attack helicopters. Only the Army Aviation does. There is no point adding the AH-1J Sea Cobra to the list. Tashtastic 16:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Reorganisation

Look the page is stupid, the way it's organised. a few weeks ago it was absolutely perfect , can someone please put it back the way it was?

Why are the historic aircraft mentioned in different sections, spread throughout the article? There are some in the sections " Former Iranian combat aircraft", "Former Iranian reconnaissance, patrol, and AEW aircraft"; and even some in "Transport and utility", "Trainers" and "Helicopters".

It would be more logical to list them in one major section, titled something like "Historical Iranian aircraft" or "Former Iranian aircraft". It could then be divided into smaller sections for " Former Iranian combat aircraft", "Former Iranian reconnaissance, patrol, and AEW aircraft", "Former Iranian Transport and utility aircraft", "Former Iranian Trainers" and "Former Iranian Helicopters".' --Dreddmoto (talk) 15:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

It is normally done in one of two ways, have seperate sections for current and former aircraft, the other approach is to create a List of active aircraft of the Iranian Air Force and just make this an overview of all types operated. MilborneOne (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Don't you think that one of those ways should be done, rather than continuing to have the current and former aircraft mixed together in different sections and spread throughout the article? It would make the article more logical and therefore, easier to read. --Dreddmoto (talk) 22:07, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Remove this article.

I don't think this article is necessary because there already is the a aircraft inventory table in the article Iranian Air Force and most of this is out of date. --EZ1234 (talk) 03:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

With other air forces the "list of..." article also includes historical types no longer in the inventory; so while I agree that as it stands, it's superfluous, the solution is to expand it into something useful, rather than deleting it. I'll see what I can dig up. --Rlandmann (talk) 06:55, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest that the table in the parent article be trimmed down or removed and a link to this article inserted. MilborneOne (talk) 11:08, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I now agree with MilborneOne, we should expand this article and shorten the aircraft invetory section in the Iranian Air Force article like in the Indian Air Force article.--EZ1234 (talk) 08:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Andrade 1982

Anybody have more information on this source? Ng.j (talk) 19:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Did you check the references section where it details the book? MilborneOne (talk) 20:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

My fault, didn't see it at the very bottom. Ng.j (talk) 21:29, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Should be the MiG-25 and not MiG-31

The article states that Iran has 24 MiG-31's and this is just not the case. I believe some of the Iraqi Air Force MiG-25's flew to Iran during the 1991 Persian Gulf war and were detained then kept by Iran. --71.91.137.90 (talk) 17:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Photographs

The article has new photographs but, not all of them are relevant. The photograph of AB 206 Jet Rangers shows IRGC examples. The Su-25 and PC-7 Turbo Trainer images are not even of Iranian examples. They should be posted in their relevant articles and replaced with photographs of actual, IRIAF examples. Dreddmoto (talk) 13:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Notes in tables

Would it make sense to move the notes in the tables elsewhere? The tables are very difficult to read on a mobile device due to the very long text in the column Notes. 82.147.226.185 (talk) 11:34, 3 February 2024 (UTC)