Makes me wonder how much assistance lil boy Barky is prepared to give to Iran to keep their remaining F-14’s in service (at least report, Iran has around 60 of them, unsure of how many are combat ready).
Those little goat humping maggots have reverse engineered the Navy’s AIM54 Phoenix missile, and that’s not good.
It’s too bad the F-14’s fell into the hands, so to speak, of the Ayatollah.
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Very damn few, I bet.
I was in Bandar Abbas in '78 in a P-3 out of Barbers Point (well, out of Dodge, actually) and they were cannibalizing their T56's to keep their pink P-3 fleet airborne left and right. I think they didn't do well in the desert environment. Or their maintenance sucked. Or both.
I don't think they had a half-dozen APS-80 sets working among them - so even if they got airborne they would have been relatively useless as a (insert mission here) platform.
I suspect their Tomcats are little more than shells.
MiGs, anyone?