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Military Aviation => Military Aircraft => Topic started by: Raptor on October 13, 2006, 05:06:14 PM

Title: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 13, 2006, 05:06:14 PM

What's to happen to the Iranian Tomcats, now, seeing that USA is de-commisioning theirs and long ago cut off supply routes for spare parts?

They could keep a few and use the rest as spare parts, but won't that be highly unconventional? And with their russian fighters, maybe i could buy a Tomcat from them for a hundred bucks or so  ;D

MAYBE!!!

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Webmaster on October 13, 2006, 10:45:53 PM

See http://www.milavia.net/forum/index.php/topic,207.0.html

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 09:44:20 AM

Ah. Ok. Thanks

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 10:46:28 AM

whos stupid idea was it to give F-14s to Iran anyway?

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 10:51:57 AM

not mine. probably a military big-shot who wanted more money...  ;D

Sorry, no harm meant.

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 10:52:53 AM

i suppose its a lucky thing that the Iranians cant maintain their F14s properly, otherwise a lot of planes would be at risk, considering the F-14s range and payload :o

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 10:53:55 AM

And think of how much money Iran would waste on maintanance

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 10:55:04 AM

yea, but wasted money means less things like hospitals and schools!

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 10:59:06 AM

Then Iran would never have the people and the sense to 'cut the crap' adn do something sensible.

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: alyster on October 14, 2006, 11:06:10 AM

Who's stupid idea? The US! And it wasn't stupid. When they sold the F-14s Iran was US friendly country who was in a need of such a plane. They also had orders on F-16, but non of them reached Iran before 1979 when the goverment changed.
And if I remember it right, then F-14s servered Iran very well in Iran-Iraq war in 1980s.

Now they have bunch of knock-off weapons in service, which is quite cheap for them and also they produce the weapondry themselfs now so in no way are they stupid. It's stupid to call them stupid.

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 11:07:49 AM

If america sold them to Iran before the government changed, and the planes werent there, why not pull out of the deal?

Britain did it Australia, so whats the difference?

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: alyster on October 14, 2006, 11:08:44 AM

They pulled out of the deal with F-16 cause they weren't there yet, not F-14. It was too late for the 14.

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 11:08:53 AM

That's what happened. No deal. simple.

Alyster, you from Iran??? Well, what with the nice new weapons their designing, hmmm, decisions, decisions. ok. no more politics. let's head into the plane itself. Does anyone have an idea on how expensive maintance comes up to?

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 11:11:01 AM

i guess it depends on how many they have and what they want to do to them

and labour i suppose

i got confused with the f-14 deal, i thought alyster meant that the F-14 hadnt arrived when the government changed :-[

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: alyster on October 14, 2006, 11:11:41 AM

http://www.milavia.net/forum/index.php/topic,451.0.html

And I'm from Estonia, not Iran.

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 11:15:47 AM

Ah. i see. USNs making a big mistake by letting go of one of the best fighters of all time,

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Gripen on October 14, 2006, 11:17:12 AM

thats what i meant.

why give a unstable country the best fighter when it could easily be turned against them!!

Title: Re: Iranian F-14s
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 11:21:07 AM

It wasn't unstable at that time...so...