Where did they get the spare parts given the sanctions?
Cannibalized some of them?
I imagine they have to reverse engineer the parts.
Where did they get the spare parts given the sanctions?
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It’s normal when a foreign country buys an aircraft lot from a US Mfr. to also include many years of spares for components that are time/life-limited items or otherwise have to be replaced due to wear or breakage.
They took delivery of 79 F14s and can maybe put up 20 to 25 now. They would of course scavenge parts off the surviving non-flyable air frames.
USN Tomcats shot down four opponents while the Iranians have 100+ kills against Iraq.
Dick Chaney ordered destruction of the F14 tooling during the Daddy Bush regime.
GE ignored sanctions on Iran, with impunity.
Do they manufacture some of these parts?