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| They still have boatloads of AIM-54's me thinks. |
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toan
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 05:59 AM
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They even manufacture AIM-54 by themselves now.
After September, 2006, Tomcat + AIM-54 will become a total "Iranian Weapon System".
The greatest patron of USN during the cold-war era becomes the patron of American biggest enemy in mid-east now. What an ironical scenario it is............... |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 06:55 AM
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I thought they'd fitted some Russian land based missile systems. That's in some other thread. The F-22's better watch out  , again different thread. I'm gonna go find that thread now. |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 04:19 PM
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| Not Russian, American. Somewhere on here there are pics of a Tomcat with a Hawk SAM strapped to it. Silliest thing I've ever seen, Hawks are HUGE. |
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pafpilot
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 05:40 PM
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| How do they maintain their tomcats and phantoms and tigers.I mean from where do they get the spare-parts. |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 06:04 PM
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Reverse engineer them maybe ? 
Did they only get sensors and electronics from the Hawks or they adapted the whole missile to be aircraft-launched ? If the latter, it must be the hugest and most clumsy A2A weapons system in usage right now   |
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 06:27 PM
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| It was the whole dang missile. Like I said, it looked insane. |
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MKopack
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 06:43 PM
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pafpilot wrote:
How do they maintain their tomcats and phantoms and tigers.I mean from where do they get the spare-parts.
Over the past few years several people in the US (that I've heard about) have been prosecuted for attempting to smuggle Tomcat parts to Iran. I can imagine that the Navy is being quite careful in the 'dismantling' of their retired aircraft to prevent this.
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MKopack
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 06:54 PM
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Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 09:26 PM
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pafpilot wrote:
How do they maintain their tomcats and phantoms and tigers.I mean from where do they get the spare-parts.
A: Reverse-engineering, Black-market, "Iranian-Gate"............. |
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Posted: Aug 06, 2006 - 11:55 PM
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Saw a google earth map with a blue F-14 parked behind a hangar, at the back of an Iranian air base. The aircraft wasn`t there for long.
There are plenty of people who Iran could pay to go and train local tech`s on F-4, 5s and Tomcats. Probably already been done...... |
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Posted: Aug 25, 2006 - 06:47 PM
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RoAF wrote:
They flew sorties during the war with Iraq and shot down
Iraqi planes - and some are flying now
Want proof? Here it is flying together with an IRIAF MiG-29 (Iran bought Fulcrums in 1990)
EDIT: here's a video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_aZ7qSg0NY
The people who commented on that have on idea what they are talking about
Tundherblast (2 months ago)
"First USAF do not have F-14 anymore,Pilots in F-22 and F-35 will be dead meat cos they still have lot to learn about their aircraft"
Just thought I'd mention that. |
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seat_dreamer
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Posted: Aug 25, 2006 - 07:06 PM
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| Why YouTube comments section always turns into a "Mine is bigger than yours" cockfight ? It can't be possible that SO many immature people use the Internet and know that site.... |
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Posted: Aug 26, 2006 - 06:53 AM
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MKopack wrote:
Guysmiley wrote:
It was the whole dang missile. Like I said, it looked insane.
I did some searching and here are a couple of the Tomcat / Hawk photos:
http://www.afwing.com/gallery/iran/Resize%20of%207.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4121/f14hawk9ah.jpg
I don't know if these were actually operational, or just a 'hey, check this out...' kind of thing, but it had to take some ingenuity...
Mike
As much as I want to see the government change in Tehran, I'll keep politics out of this  .
I've got to hand it to 'em for keeping those Turkeys (and I mean that in the kindest sense) flying. Who'dve thunk to put a Hawk missile under the wing of a Tomcat over here? I wonder just how well it works... |
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Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 08:13 PM
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| Where do these figures come from? How can we be sure that the Iranians aren't skewing these numbers to make them higher or lower? |
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