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This Is not the Shah's Era
(By Pilot General Mohammad Reza Attaee)
After the war the Air Force decided to buy a kind of missile system from a foreign country to reinforce the Air Defense system of the country.
The manufacturing country asked for almost one billion and two hundred million Tomans plus some foreign exchange to establish the site and make the system operational.
We sent this bid to General Sattary to get his opinion. When he saw the figure he said, "It is not the Shah's era to spend money extravagantly.
Neither I nor the country has such money to spend as such". I asked what we could do, he said, "Wait for the time being. Let me have the technical books on this system. Then I will tell you what to do".
On Wednesday I provided him with three volumes of thick books in English. He, as usual, included them in the work he did at home during the evenings.
In the meeting we had, the General, with the information he had obtained form the prepared a plan. Showing it to us he said, "Lay down the equipment according to this plan. I will come to see the result in fifteen days". Our experts received the plan to start the job in accordance.
After fifteen days we went to the place where the site was supposed to be built. But they had not started the work yet. Martyr Sattary, seeing that nothing had been done, got annoyed but did not show it.
He examined the condition of the location carefully, then asked for a tape measure and some plaster. He measured the distances and some one applied plaster on the lines that he drew. When finished with this he got into a loader and started on leveling the ground. The engineering personnel who were responsible for this, seeing that the General was doing it, were doubly motivated.
They continued the work vigorously. After a month and a half at the expense of about seven million Tomans, the site was erected.
After the missile site became operational the General invited the foreign experts to visit the site.
After the war the Air Force decided to buy a kind of missile system from a foreign country to reinforce the Air Defense system of the country.
The manufacturing country asked for almost one billion and two hundred million Tomans plus some foreign exchange to establish the site and make the system operational.
We sent this bid to General Sattary to get his opinion. When he saw the figure he said, "It is not the Shah's era to spend money extravagantly.
Neither I nor the country has such money to spend as such". I asked what we could do, he said, "Wait for the time being. Let me have the technical books on this system. Then I will tell you what to do".
On Wednesday I provided him with three volumes of thick books in English. He, as usual, included them in the work he did at home during the evenings.
In the meeting we had, the General, with the information he had obtained form the prepared a plan. Showing it to us he said, "Lay down the equipment according to this plan. I will come to see the result in fifteen days". Our experts received the plan to start the job in accordance.
After fifteen days we went to the place where the site was supposed to be built. But they had not started the work yet. Martyr Sattary, seeing that nothing had been done, got annoyed but did not show it.
He examined the condition of the location carefully, then asked for a tape measure and some plaster. He measured the distances and some one applied plaster on the lines that he drew. When finished with this he got into a loader and started on leveling the ground. The engineering personnel who were responsible for this, seeing that the General was doing it, were doubly motivated.
They continued the work vigorously. After a month and a half at the expense of about seven million Tomans, the site was erected.
After the missile site became operational the General invited the foreign experts to visit the site.
