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Originally posted by tabs
During the Iraq/Iran war the Iranian Airforce was Non-Existant...and you wonder why with all the American Hardware the Shah had bought....you'd think their AF would be riding high....Simple reason really the Iranians had NOBODY capable of maintaining them.
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tabs, you may want to revise your statement on the Iranians not having anybody capable to maintain the planes they bought
as the F-14 tomcat is now beeing decommisioned by the US Navy , the F-14 community is now kinda cursing about the sadly demise of the Tomcat Squadrons, and subsequent conversion to the SuperBug... the Iranians are now the only to fly F14, and they still have AIM54 Phoenix missiles , in active service...
They make their own parts, they have SOMEBODY capable of maintaining these planes, in fact they modded plenty of the hardware they bought back in the days of the Sjah, and brought it up to a good condition...
according to the now converting Tomcat folks, those rumours about the Ali-Cats beeing grounded due to poor maintenance are absolutely not true.... that's your US Navy pilots saying it ... based on their sources... not me :
http://www.tomcat-sunset.org/forums/index.php?topic=107.0
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Three of these units remain operational with slightly over 50 active airframes as of today.
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i guess the iranians found some technical bbs , some kind of Pelicanparts for F14's and other related US made hardware...
hell , they got more tomcat's then the US navy ! and the US Navy gave up on them cause they are to expensive to maintain, and replace it by a smaller, cheaper , but less capable (albeit more modern and computerized ) plane