Simorgh
Iran originally bought close to 200 F-5s from Northrop Grumman in the 1970s, most of which have been cannibalized over the past twenty years for spare parts. The Simorgh is a Northrop F-5A to F-5B conversion by the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (IAMI) at Shahin Shahr Isfahan. Iranian engineers managed to convert single-seat F-5s into two-seat B-model trainers, using cockpit instrumentation from cannibalized aircraft and ejection seats from the UK’s Martin-Baker–all of which has been done without any access to the factory tooling or other technical assistance from the original manufacturer, Northrop.
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