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"Brian J. McCann" wrote in message m... Snip If you're confused about the quality of the show in question, it's easy to find out how well researcherd it is: have they maintained that the F-14 saw no serious service within the IRIAF during the war agianst Iraq? They made no mention of the Iran-Iraq war. What they DID say was that the F-14s were sabotaged, possibly by Grumman technicians, at some point during the revolution. They made it clear that the Tomcats would be useless as weapons platforms without the destroyed/missing components. Brian, the Iranian F-14s were _not_ sabotaged by anybody. This is an urban legend, and it never happened. Not that they did not think about this: they just couldn't get close to these after several CIA agents tried to sabotage a couple of C-130s (and failed). From that moment on, all the US personnel was put under a house-arrest in their compounds, while all the IIAF air bases and installations were blocked from the outside world. Nobody there could walk around 77 aircraft and sabotage them one after the other. 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 |
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