Iranian Tigers at War

“ … a major undertaking of a war not well understood nor studied here in Australia and the text well and truly presents much of the day to day occurrences without going into political ideology … , it provided for me an exacting account of a little known aerial war and secondly on the modeling aspect offers some unusual color schemes” * Model Art Magazine *
“The author’s credentials speak volumes. Charged with being a threat to Iranian national security, author Babak Taghvaee “was tried,” the publisher’s biographical note reveals, “in the Islamic Revolution Court but managed to flee the country in August 2013 after being released on bail. This book is a product of the Iranian Ministry of Information historical records that he managed to hide during the period of his arrest.” And what a book it is…Taghvaee’s excellent effort includes extended captions, a glossary, tables and selected bibliography. Sixteen superb color profiles by Tom Cooper also sample Iranian F-5 warpaint. Color and B&W photos further season the study. And nine maps augment action accounts. “Now, 47 years after the first Northrop F-5A/Bs entered service in Iran, 39 years after delivery of the first F-5E/Fs and nearly 20 years after their originally scheduled replacement date, five sub-variants of these two types remain in service with the air force and represent no less then 33.5% of its total fighter force. Get the whole story. Buy this brilliant little book. Rabidly recommended!” * Cybermodeler *

Babak Taghvaee began his career in 2005 writing anonymously about the history of the Iranian Air Force. He soon became an aviation journalist, book author, historian, and photojournalist, publishing articles in English and German aviation magazines such as AirForces Monthly and Combat Aircraft in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He 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 write books about the subject. In the same year, he was invited by an Iranian defense company to work as a civilian innovator and advisor on Iranian Air Force aircraft upgrade projects while a student and journalist. Since 2013, he has written almost 100 articles, news reports, and three books about Iranian civil and military aviation industries, the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces, and the air war against ISIL in British, French, Greek, and Russian military aviation magazines while living in exile.

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