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Tuesday, August 21, 2018
PM’s Arabic spokesman mocks new Iran plane, notes similarity to US jet from 50s
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic-language spokesman mocks Iran after it unveils a new fighter jet, noting the similarity between it and a US-manufactured plane first developed in the 1950s.
“The Iranian regime unveils the Kowsar plane and claims that it is ‘the first 100% locally-manufactured Iranian fighter jet.’ It is boasting about its offensive capabilities, but I immediately noticed that this is a very old American war plane (it was manufactured in the 50s). It is from the F-5 class of jets which has not been in use for decades,” Ofer Gendelman tweets in Arabic.
النظام الإيراني يكشف النقاب عن طائرة #كوثر ويدعي أنها "أول مقاتلة إيرانية محلية الصنع %100" ويتفاخر بقدراتها الهجومية النوعية ولكنني رأيت على الفور أن هذه هي طائرة حربية أمريكية قديمة جدا (صنعت في أواخر الخمسينات) من طراز F-5 خرجت منذ عقود من الخدمة… الكذب حبله قصير… pic.twitter.com/Mb8plEjlxr
— Ofir Gendelman (@ofirgendelman) August 21, 2018
— Adam Rasgon
The Times of Israel Community.