Iranian Tomcats

[CaptainEd]

This is a thread from a Forum dealing with the retirement of the F-14.

http://www.tomcat-sunset.org/forums/ind ... opic=127.0

Very interesting, in light of the recent anti-Iranian sabre rattling going on in Washington.

VP Cheney is even taking potshots at a friend in TX, so God only knows what he has in mind for Iran.

[MX727]

Thanks for the link captain, interesting indeed.
Regards,
JAHC
PS By the way, I heard Mr Cheney didn't even had a hunting permit. Imagine that.

[regi]

correction: the vice president did have a hunting certificate but not for the quales he was shooting at and certainly not for 78 year old lawyers.

[earthman]

I didn't know that anybody needed a license to hunt lawyers!

[MX727]

That's a good one earthman! :pang:
:laugh: :thumbsup2:

Regards,
JAHC

[regi]

what happened with the + 100 Iraqi jets that escaped to Iran in the 1991 bombings in the first Gulf war?

[regi]

In the eighties when Iran was fighting with Iraq, and there was an embargo against it, Iran had great difficulties to find spares and ammunition for its american made planes.
An offer came from - you will never believe this one - Vietnam! They had a handful USA planes left , captured in the last days of the fall of the Southvietnamese regime in 1975. The vietnamese airforce relied completely on its soviet equipment and couldn't do anything with the USA stuff.
Eventually the sale didn't go through. The planes were not the kind that Iran needed.
I think there were Cessna Dragonfly with it, almost new and ready to go.

[RC20]

VP Cheney is even taking potshots at a friend in TX, so God only knows what he has in mind for Iran.

As one guy said, its important to pick your hunting partner by their skill level, not what their political leanings are!

Of course this administartion likes to shoot from the hip, so its all in keeping with their aproach. And I know this is off the subject!

[JDarby]

The movie "Hamble be H-3" refers to a raid conducted by 8 Iranian F4s in 1981 against the main Iraqi medium bombers near the Syrian border(T16 & T22). The raid resulted in the destruction of most of the Iraqi medium bomber fleet. What the movie did not say, is that the planes landed in Syria after the raid to refuel and appeared again over Iraq on its way back to Iran. The Iranian A.F. figured that the planes flying in pairs in close formation were hardest to detect by the Iraqi air defences.