"Matt Wiser" wrote in message
news:3f799d30$1@bg2....



Then I stand corrected. I would assume they have replenished the stocks
of those they fired with their reverse-engineered version.

That's what they are probably trying to do right now: after all, their
AIM-54-copy is in a low-scale production only since the last year - which
makes this issue a "completely different story".... ;-))

Tom Cooper
Co-Author:
Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988:
http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php
and,
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat:
http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585