Kludo

Most short range IR missiles you find overseas and let me preface this - air to air. Use technology stolen from Raytheon. Almost all music seeker are all aspect from the M and beyond. The aircraft was the limiting factor. (No look and shoot cuing from the helmet)

I have some anecdotes from IFR probes to folks crawling into the turkey feathers to take a nap only to be awakened to some severe heat. Was and still is a great jet. Darkbrother - Most of your communist bloc IR missiles are western knock offs.

It was a maintenance handful but it was also very very forgiving. The biggest issue was always the AICS system. The second thing that sucked was the Armament panel on the left hand side for the RIO whoever the Navy hired to uork on it either didnt use wiring diagrams or they thought it was a joke. The Electronic fuzing system was impeccable it was the AWW4 system out of the A-6 (very reliable reliable - a2g system) As for the Iranian F14s. Ive read in several places, theyve upgraded them, and while they may have been grounded intermittently, theyve found parts. Im gunna look it up where theres an interview with an Iranian kitty pilot and basically what I recall theyve been able to replace parts with off the shelf ( best buy?) Components and for awhile aircraft scavengers at ARAMARC till they destroyed all parts including museum shape parts (internal component's). Operating in sand is easy. As long as they do post flight engine washes with something like BnB... they wont lose engine power quickly.

I have heard of the RAG super cruising em (slick no rails, etc). With the F110s. But dont recall it happening in the fleet due to the drop tanks, weapons rails (phoenix rails fixed up with BRU32s) and the LANTIRN pod on 8B.

Look up fighter fling on youtube. Some good Tomcat vids.

Hello, Just a heads up. Navy AOC here, started my career on the F-14B+ UPGRADE, moved on to the F/A-18F, then the SH-60B, then the SH-60F and HH-60H, and now work with the MH-60R, MH-60S, AH-1W, AH-1Y, and AH-1Z. Anyhow if you have any ordnance questions or even general maint questions provided its unclass Ill be happy to help. R/ Kludo