[El Gato]

e had Iranian students in avionics and weapon delivery systems school on the F-15. That I know first hand - I was there. Curious..... Was it the 14's that they couldn't even fly? Maybe they hadn't taken delivery yet?

The radars in the F-14 and F-15 were and are very similar. Both from Hughes (now part of Raytheon, aka RatCO). They could fly the F-14s, but the the big missiles were useless. They used them as a sort of Mini AWACS during the war with Iran and later. It was the presence of an Iranian F-14, in part, that caused the Vincennes'crew to think an Iranian airbus was a warplane on an attack run, and thus to shoot it down.

Here' an article about the F-14 in Iranian service

And here's a page about the Imperial Iranian Air Force. You'll note no F-15s are mentioned (other than Saudi F-15s which shot down Iranian F-4s)

[GrandEagle]

Thanks for the info, and the link!
It makes more sense now.
(dusting off the memory cobwebs)

Cordially,
GE