Iranian Air Force - Babak Taghvaee

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Résumé :
In 1921, General Reza Pahlavi assumed power in Iran and within five years had established aviation, then in its infancy, as a department within the modernised army.

The country lacked aircraft, infrastructure and trained personnel, but under a progressive government with a reforming zeal, progress was fast.

Pilots and technicians were trained abroad, aircraft were sourced and plans were drawn up to establish factories for future manufacturing.

The newly established air force successfully suppressed rebels bringing the weight of national power to remote locations and quickly proved its worth.

Fast forward to World War Two, when Iran was invaded by British and Soviet powers intent upon protecting their interests in the region. In need of significant investment post-war, the Iranian Air Force rebuilt, successfully countering insurgents backed by Soviet forces.

By 1956, pilots were training on the first jet aircraft, yet this golden era ended abruptly in 1979.

With more than 125 historic images, this book chronicles the evolution of the Imperial Iranian Air Force up to the Jet Age and highlights the key fighters and bombers of World Wars One and Two that played a pivotal role in shaping its strength and legacy....

Biographie:
Babak Taghvaee is an aviation journalist, historian and book author. He started his career as an aviation journalist by writing for AirForces Monthly and the Aviation Industries Magazine in 2008\. Since then, he has written over 800 articles and news reports about military aviation for the magazine, as well as other brands of Key Publishing Ltd. Through his career, he has written four books about the Air Forces and Army Aviation Force of Iran and Ukraine, which were published in Austria and the UK between 2009 and 2020....

Sommaire:
Starting his career in 2005 by the means of anonymously writing articles about the history of the Iranian Air Force for Iranian websites, Babak Taghvaee soon became an aviation journalist, book author, historian and photojournalist by publishing his articles in English and German aviation magazines such as AirForces Monthly and Combat Aircraft in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He then co-authored his first book about the Iranian Air Force in 2010. In 2011, he became one of two supervisors of the Iranian Air Force's historical research project 'Historical Identity of IRIAF' to document the history of the force and to write books about the subject. In the same year, he was invited by one of the Iranian defence companies to work as civilian innovator and advisor of the Iranian Air Force's aircraft upgrade projects while he was a student in two Iranian universities (as well as a journalist for several Iranian aviation magazines). Since 2013, he has written almost 100 articles, news reports and three books about the Iranian civil and military aviation industries and the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces, as well as the air war against the ISIL in the British, French, Greek and Russian world's leading military aviation magazines while he was living in exile....