You know considering how the Navy chose to deliberately go about
destroying anything and everything "old" that would interfere with their
plan to modernize the Navy - a politically motivated behavior seen in
the demise of the Convair B-58 Hustlers as a retribution act to match to
the destruction of all the Northrop Flying Wings. I am not so sure the
Iranians can really get or want those F-14 parts from AMARC (if it were
even possible) but it is possible that the F-14D could be refurbished
into an even stronger jet that would embarrass first the F/A-18 and then
much worse the F-35, especially given its failing components and
subsystems. The methodology is all the same - over kill the hype about
how old and broken the airframe is, selectively shut down spares and key
component supply, and make the program look like a mess. The F-14D can
still fly circles around all other Navy fighters and if it would be
given some of the reliability and maintainability upgrades evident in
the E/F as well as the AESA upgrade from the F-35 - well the old Turkey
would smile a new light on Naval Air. As long as anyone can look back
the present breed of Naval air leadership is petrified - absolutely
paranoid - of not only that it can't do the Tomcat's job with what's
left but what the F-14 could still grow beyond itself. The demise of
the Tomcat will be the date in which carrier aviation became
unbalanced - with new fast nuclear ships and a weak unsupportive air
wing - thus bringing the submarine one notch closer to replacing the
surface fleet as the critical combatant lead. "Choose Wisely" and they
did not -


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Perhaps however, where are you get the parts once the F14As - over a
hundred of them at AMARC - goes the shredder?

Here's the article

http://tailhookdaily.typepad.com/tai...g_all_f14.html




On Apr 28, 1:12 pm, "rstro" wrote:
actually that is incorrect-
a number( I have no idea how many) are marked as "War Reserves" and
will be
manintained in storage at AMARC

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oups.com...

Not for long, the F-14s at AMARC got the go to be shredded as to
prevent part sales to Iran.

On Apr 27, 4:39 pm, "rstro" wrote:
sure there is/.........
call ARMARC and get some real airplanes back in the Navy--F-14