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The Real Top Guns | Iranian F-14 Aces
In the early 1970s, the Imperial Iranian Air Force - as it was then known - sought to procure new fighters to combat ...
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Despite their "Top Gun" fame, the United States decommissioned the last of its F-14 Tomcats in 2006. But Iran had them, and kept flying them. Here's why.
Plastic built kit, exhibit model of a U.S. Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft in overall light gray color scheme. 1:48 scale. Circa 1989. Summary ...
While Iran’s decades-old F-14A Tomcat and revamped F-5 Tigers would pose little threat to Israel’s aircraft, the strikes quickly made sure they could not even get off the ground.
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An Israeli military official said a drone struck two F-14s in Tehran earlier in the week. Iran is the only air force that still flies the Tomcat.
They called it the F-14A Tomcat, and it was produced for the United States Navy between 1970 to 1992 by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation, now known as Northrop-Grumman.
However, it was more than a decade until the Tomcat drew its first blood in August 1981 during the “Gulf of Sidra incident,” when a pair of F-14s came under attack from two Soviet-made Sukhoi ...