Top Gun Reloaded: F-14 Tomcats take off for night missions. Few days ago, in Iran.

Discussion in 'Military Equipment, Service and Technology' started by Iranian Monitor, Oct 24, 2016.

  1. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
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    Iran
    I like those F-14 Tomcats, which are not really the aircraft they used to be when they were first delivered to Iran. But the story of those Tomcats is the story of how Iran has had to make do with what it has been allowed to make do despite all the sanctions, boycotts and efforts put on its way.

    https://theaviationist.com/2016/10/...-off-for-night-missions-few-days-ago-in-iran/
    Top Gun Reloaded: F-14 Tomcats take off for night missions. Few days ago, in Iran.
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  2. Valkyrie

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    Mar 27, 2013
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  3. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    Now that Maverick and Goose aren't flying these planes anymore, and given the upgrades and new features on the old Tomcats, I like them be given their new name: the "Persian Cats":)

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  4. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
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    At least Iran has F-14s, The Mexican air force has like 5 old F-5's or some shit like that.

    I mean come on, can't they at least buy something from the 1980's for their air shows and flyovers.
     
  5. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Don't forget that they also have the formidable fighter/bomber T-6c+!

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  6. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    It is not really just how old is the platform, but what modifications have been done to it and what it is able to carry. Take the F-4 phantoms, for example.

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    As for the F-14s, here is a picture of the F-14AM (the "M" stands for modernized), along with the "Fakour 90" missile developed by Iran for the F-14AM.

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    http://www.defense-aerospace.com/art...-missions.html
    Iran Optimizing F14 Fighter Jets for New Missions

    This note at the end of that report is why the pictures of these F-14s are actually the most relevant:
    It is only "unanswered" because people have bought into the anti-Iran propaganda and spin in the first place! Otherwise, the answers are there -- in reports, pictures, videos and more!

    Talking about the F-5, here are pictures of Iran's Saeghe fighter built based on the F-5 but with the modern armaments and capabilities needed for it to provide Iran a decent close ground support aircraft.

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    A different version of the Saeghe, the Saeghe 2:

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  7. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    IM makes a good point, I mean has anyone see the TV documentaries about Cuba and how they keep those old 1950's and 1960's cars running. Many of them look beautiful.

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  8. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    I like your posts a hell of a lot better when you tout vacation spots! :coffee:
     
  9. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    Unless you are an antique dealer, imagine those old cars in Cuba with totally rebuilt engines, their body completely overhauled, with brand new seats, air conditioning, stereo system, the latest digital equipment, GPS, and new windshields and brand new paint. You will then begin to understand the old aircraft in Iran's inventory.

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  10. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    Btw, remember this mock-up of the Qaher 313 which Iran unveiled a few years ago and the reaction to the mock-up, with the usual suspects going out of their way to prove something that didn't need any proof: that it was a mock-up and not the real thing?
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    The childish reaction didn't stop Iran doing its work on the project. A few years ago, a prototype of the Qaher 313 was photographed by someone being towed on a run-way somewhere in Iran.
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    Last month, Iran announced that the development of the Qaher 313 is almost finished and the plane will be unveiled soon:

    http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950530000567
    Btw, do yo want to know what happened with the RQ-170 Sentinel that Iran commandeered to land in Iran, with the US first denying it and then admitting the facts, with Iran doing what was said could't be done: decoding the plane and showing off a video of the flights contained in the UAV's memory, the doing another thing that was could not be done, namely building a prototype of the UAV in 2013?

    http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2016/05/unmanned-cyber-warfare.html
    Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident has defense industry saying 'never again' to unmanned vehicle hacking
    May 3, 2016


    Well, last month, Iran started mass producing its own version of the RQ-170:

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    While Iran is now ranked just ahead of Russia by even US sites as #4 in terms of UAV military power (see top 5 deadliest drone powers in the world), there are still those who cannot help writing elaborate spin to make people forget what they had written previously about Iran's UAVs and all these incidents. A good example is the article below in the aviationist:

    https://theaviationist.com/category/captured-stealth-drone/

    Iran unveils new UCAV modeled on captured U.S. RQ-170 stealth drone
     
  11. Iranian Monitor

    Iranian Monitor Member+

    Aug 18, 2004
    Nat'l Team:
    Iran
    The plethora of regional conflicts involving the US and various of its proxies have had one minor side benefit: they have provided a venue for Iran to test the products of its military industries.

    In Syria and Iraq, Iranian UAVs are a constant feature in the air, usually doing reconnaissance missions to help the troops on the ground, but also taking part in combat missions such as this one showing Iran's Shahed 129 striking terrorist targets in Syria.

    At the same time, Hezbollah gets to regularly test its products from Iran against Israel. The most interesting case involved a Hezbollah drone that recently flew over Israel, which the Israelis tried to bring down with Patriot missiles (all of them failed) and with their F-16 fighters -- which also failed to bring down the UAV. The Israelis, which tracked the UAV for half an hour, have been shy coming out and admitting what kind of UAV it was that they couldn't bring down:) Since it is more palatable to the Israelis to be outwitted by a former superpower, they even tried to claim it might have been a Russian drone, making Hezbollah come out and say it was their drone! (I should note, incidentally, when it comes to drone technology, the Russians lag behind Iran).

    As for Wahhabi Arabia, which spends more than anyone else after the US and China on their military, we have seen how valuable all that money has been going against the Houthis! For the moment, the chance that the Houthis might topple the House of Saud than the reverse!
     

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