Iran confirmed receipt of Russian combat aircraft and helicopters

Obsolete types

According to the Military Balance yearbook, as of 2023, the Iranian Air Force was equipped with largely morally and physically obsolete American and French aircraft manufactured in the 70s. last century. Some of the Russian and Chinese cars produced in the 1980s–1990s. delivered in the 1990s. Under contracts concluded back in the USSR, MiG-29 fighters and Su-24 bombers were supplied to Iran, and later Mi-171 transport helicopters were received from Russia.