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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Since the US Navy has phased out its fleet of F-14's and AIM-54's and while, neither the USAF has no aircraft for air engagement for distances more than 30 miles nor the US Navy, Iran - at the present time - has more numbers of powerful interceptors of tomcats having strength of engagement for distances of more than 120 miles away versus the USA, So that's a new big threat to the USA, because the Iranian Tomcats not only are armed with AIM-54's but also can be equipped with new high-efficiency weapons for more threat to USA!!! So what can do the USA against this new threat?!! |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote:
A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ... Since the US Navy has phased out its fleet of F-14's and AIM-54's and while, neither the USAF has no aircraft for air engagement for distances more than 30 miles nor the US Navy, Iran - at the present time - has more numbers of powerful interceptors of tomcats having strength of engagement for distances of more than 120 miles away versus the USA, So that's a new big threat to the USA, because the Iranian Tomcats not only are armed with AIM-54's but also can be equipped with new high-efficiency weapons for more threat to USA!!! So what can do the USA against this new threat?!! Does this mean Iran has solved the replacement parts problem? -- St. John Justice, n.: A decision in your favor. |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote: A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ... Since the US Navy has phased out its fleet of F-14's and AIM-54's and while, neither the USAF has no aircraft for air engagement for distances more than 30 miles nor the US Navy, Iran - at the present time - has more numbers of powerful interceptors of tomcats having strength of engagement for distances of more than 120 miles away versus the USA, So that's a new big threat to the USA, because the Iranian Tomcats not only are armed with AIM-54's but also can be equipped with new high-efficiency weapons for more threat to USA!!! So what can do the USA against this new threat?!! Uh..huh? You are calling a platform designed 40 years ago, and now retired in US service because its old and obsolete a "new threat"? |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
St. John Smythe wrote: Does this mean Iran has solved the replacement parts problem? For a long time they cannibalized the fleet of 70 to keep examples flying. They eventually got down to only 7 flyable Tomcats and no functioning Aim-54's (the solid fuel propellant expired). Since then, they have reverse engineered some of the spare parts needed, and have a few more flyable Tomcats, but not enough to fill out a squadron. I don't think they've been able to fix the propellant problems with the Aim-54s. They pretty much just use the AWG-9 as an AWACs system. |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
So what can do the USA against this new threat?!!
Send a couple of stealths (F-22) to deal with it? Or anyother current inventory bird with proper jamming... it seems to me that the US knows how to jam an AWG-9 / AIM-54A combo ;-) Love the Tomcat LOTS, but those Iranian birds are way behind the current technology. Now, a current VF-31 spec F-14D Tomcat, still carrying the phased out AIM-54C... that would be another ball game. José |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Airyx wrote: St. John Smythe wrote: Does this mean Iran has solved the replacement parts problem? For a long time they cannibalized the fleet of 70 to keep examples flying. They eventually got down to only 7 flyable Tomcats and no functioning Aim-54's (the solid fuel propellant expired). Since then, they have reverse engineered some of the spare parts needed, and have a few more flyable Tomcats, but not enough to fill out a squadron. I don't think they've been able to fix the propellant problems with the Aim-54s. They pretty much just use the AWG-9 as an AWACs system. Hi, It seems your information is very old and out of date, even your information about Iran comes back to more than 20 years , your writtens shows that you are not aware of Iran Airforce, Iran used effectively of its Tomcats during Iran-Iraq war resulting in 80 kill, and even the best F-14 pilot worldwide is an Iranian, named "Zandi" with 12 confirmed kills. As you know F-14 is the strongest interceptor, even now, that every country dreams of having it... Even recently Awacs E-3 sentry from USAF detected 16 Iranian F-14 in a flight group near Iraq border, probably 1/3 of its fleet.. Iran recently has updated its F-14s and AIM-54s to a high standard that forms a formidable opponent for any aircraft in the air. Iran even has defined the role of bombing for them... For more information you can refer to article titled "Iran: A Formidable Opponent?" printed in Combat Aircraft Volume 7 No.6 by Tom Cooper & Liam F. Devlin |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote:
As you know F-14 is the strongest interceptor, even now, that every country dreams of having it... I would imagine that the lack of orders pouring into Northrop Grumman for that design would poke a hole in your story. ALV |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote: Hi, It seems your information is very old and out of date, even your information about Iran comes back to more than 20 years , your writtens shows that you are not aware of Iran Airforce, Iran used effectively of its Tomcats during Iran-Iraq war resulting in 80 kill, and even the best F-14 pilot worldwide is an Iranian, named "Zandi" with 12 confirmed kills. This is like arguing with a child. You tell me my information is 20 years old, then tell me about Iran's use of Tomcats 20 years ago. After the Iran-Iraq war, the Tomcats fell into a horrible state of disrepair due to a lack of parts and engineering knowledge. Since then they have been able to get some more of them back online by reverse engineering some of the needed parts. We've seen about 10 flyable examples, 16 wouldn't surprise me, but getting one to fly and having it ready to fight are two different things. As you know F-14 is the strongest interceptor, even now, that every country dreams of having it... An F-14A with an AWG-9 radar, and TF30 engines, all 40 year old designs is most definately NOT the strongest interceptor. For interception duties, I'd say the best aircraft in the world is the Mig-31. For general air superiority missions, such as OCA and BarCAP, Tomcats aren't particularly good at all (which is why they weren't used in that role over Iraq, F-15s were). Not every country deams of having F-14s, they are a maintenance nightmare, and are now easily outclassed by the F-18E, Rafale, Eurofighter, Su-27, and, of course, the F-22. Israel was given the choice of F-15s or F-14s, and they chose F-15s. There is a reason the US chose to stop using them. The model Iran has, the A's were retired or upgraded to B model standard a long time ago, the last of the F-14D's, far superior to the A's were just retired last month, and by the way, they are still available if they are needed. Most of them are still sitting on the tarmac at Oceana Naval Air station waiting to fly to Arizona for storage. Now, Iran is somewhat of a formidable opponent, but not because of their air force, but because of their integrated air defense network. There are a number of Russian S-300 SAM systems, networked together, that pose quite a challenge. |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Airyx wrote: Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote: Hi, It seems your information is very old and out of date, even your information about Iran comes back to more than 20 years , your writtens shows that you are not aware of Iran Airforce, Iran used effectively of its Tomcats during Iran-Iraq war resulting in 80 kill, and even the best F-14 pilot worldwide is an Iranian, named "Zandi" with 12 confirmed kills. This is like arguing with a child. You tell me my information is 20 years old, then tell me about Iran's use of Tomcats 20 years ago. After the Iran-Iraq war, the Tomcats fell into a horrible state of disrepair due to a lack of parts and engineering knowledge. Since then they have been able to get some more of them back online by reverse engineering some of the needed parts. We've seen about 10 flyable examples, 16 wouldn't surprise me, but getting one to fly and having it ready to fight are two different things. As you know F-14 is the strongest interceptor, even now, that every country dreams of having it... An F-14A with an AWG-9 radar, and TF30 engines, all 40 year old designs is most definately NOT the strongest interceptor. For interception duties, I'd say the best aircraft in the world is the Mig-31. For general air superiority missions, such as OCA and BarCAP, Tomcats aren't particularly good at all (which is why they weren't used in that role over Iraq, F-15s were). Not every country deams of having F-14s, they are a maintenance nightmare, and are now easily outclassed by the F-18E, Rafale, Eurofighter, Su-27, and, of course, the F-22. Israel was given the choice of F-15s or F-14s, and they chose F-15s. There is a reason the US chose to stop using them. The model Iran has, the A's were retired or upgraded to B model standard a long time ago, the last of the F-14D's, far superior to the A's were just retired last month, and by the way, they are still available if they are needed. Most of them are still sitting on the tarmac at Oceana Naval Air station waiting to fly to Arizona for storage. Now, Iran is somewhat of a formidable opponent, but not because of their air force, but because of their integrated air defense network. There are a number of Russian S-300 SAM systems, networked together, that pose quite a challenge. There is a reason why the S-300 doesn't appear on any Coalition threat list for Iran - They don't have any! The Iranians don't even use Tin Shield for early warning. Yes the Iranians have S-300 if you check out some websites, but in reality not a squeak. |
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A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ...
Amir - Iranian F-4 pilot wrote: A New Threat to The USA, Iranian F-14 Tomcats? Answer it ... Since the US Navy has phased out its fleet of F-14's and AIM-54's and while, neither the USAF has no aircraft for air engagement for distances more than 30 miles nor the US Navy, Iran - at the present time - has more numbers of powerful interceptors of tomcats having strength of engagement for distances of more than 120 miles away versus the USA, So that's a new big threat to the USA, because the Iranian Tomcats not only are armed with AIM-54's but also can be equipped with new high-efficiency weapons for more threat to USA!!! So what can do the USA against this new threat?!! Are you really Tom Cooper??? |
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