Did the persian/iranian F-14 have land based ILS capabilities?

[Snappy]

Hi,

 

sorry if this is a dumb question. I know next to nothing about the details of the F-14 variant delivered to Iran but am curious about this one

and if by off chance, someone knows this one.

 

I know the F-14s used by the Navy cannot receive signals from civilian ILS  , only the  carrier-based ILS.

 

However I wondered whether the iranian cats had different receivers installed with money probably not being much of an issue  in order  to fly land-based ILS approaches in inclement  weather ?

Guess not, probably they could make do with just TACAN or PAR approaches .

This is not about the features of the persian Tomcat version we get from Heatblur, its more curiosity about the real aircraft that were ordered back

then by the IIRIAF.

 

Kind regards,

 

Snappy

Edited January 26, 2021 by Snappy

[Whistler_RIO]

It wouldnt take much.  fighter jets are built in a very modular fashion to allow for field-modifications and future upgrades, also theyre sold for export, so they need to be flexible to their purchasers needs.  If we were using the tomcat without a carrier, there is a number of systems that could be swapped out.

Look at the LANTIRN and how much technology can just be 'patched' in for a single weapon.

Edited February 13, 2021 by marcocom

[Quid]

No telling how Iran modified their Tomcats over the past getting on 5 decades, but when delivered the Iranian F-14s did not have the ILS used by the US Navy.  Two books on the subject have the same data regarding some of the systems missing from Iranian F-14s; David F. Brown's book "Legends of Warfare: F-14 Tomcat", and Cooper and Bishops' "Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units In Combat" both indicate that the Iranian F-14s were missing:

 

AN/ARA-62 Instrument Landing System

KIT-1A, KIR-1A, and KY-28 Secure Voice

AN/ALR-23 IRST system (abandoned by the USN shortly after the F-14's introduction)

APX-81-M1E IFF interrigator could only interrogate Soviet-designed aircraft

Export AIM-54A had slightly downgraded ECCM characteristics to those used by the USN

 

Neither book mentions a different ILS installed in the place of the ARA-62, so it may have had no ILS at all when delivered.

[Skysurfer]

Also doubt the IRIAF fields have ILS - is there even a need for it based on the local weather all year around?  You can still do a NDB/VOR non-precision approach if needed which gets you down fairly low anyway.

[Whistler_RIO]

They didnt really buy the tomcat for combat.  its sort of perfect for how they use it in their contrained and hostile airspace environment there in the middle east.  they use it as their E3 Overlord for which , lets face it, its really well suited.  able to position itself quickly, long-range standoff defenses, a big roomy RIO office to work from.  I would like to see a RIO campaign that emulates this for us.  maybe i should get started on one, myself

[drPhibes]

On 2/13/2021 at 6:09 PM, Skysurfer said:

Also doubt the IRIAF fields have ILS

 

What do you base that on? Out of the 17 IRIAF tactical airbases listed on wikipedia, 10 of them have ILS for at least one runway according to the Iranian AIP.

[Skysurfer]

6 minutes ago, drPhibes said:

 

What do you base that on? Out of the 17 IRIAF tactical airbases listed on wikipedia, 10 of them have ILS for at least one runway according to the Iranian AIP.

Fair enough.