Sorry for that...

[Hog_driver]

(Heart) breaking news for some

 

 

Edited June 16 by Hog_driver

[Lange_666]

Fill me in because the content is blocked (user tracking across sites and or advertising).

[Spurts]

1 hour ago, Lange_666 said:

Fill me in because the content is blocked (user tracking across sites and or advertising).

Iranian F-14s destroyed 

[wwWolfcom]

Possibly decoy or already unflyable condition F-14.

Also you can see refule probe is extended on second plane, which might be not normal for parked plane.

 

Edited June 16 by wwWolfcom

[Tom Kazansky]

Hmm.... I reckon the chances the Israelis didn't know that...

[Spurts]

there are a LOT of fully decommed Tomcats out there

[MicroShket]

I hope so. It's like to kill an endangered animal.

[Slant]

This is good news. I hope they get them all.

[JupiterJoe]

I think any working F-14's would be in a hangar.

Edited June 17 by JupiterJoe

[Shahriar0]

On 6/17/2025 at 8:01 AM, Slant said:

This is good news. I hope they get them all.

Keep your perverted political views to yoursef.

Edited June 18 by Shahriar0

[Slant]

I meant so we could maybe get a d tomcat. But sure be a drama queen.
 

Edited June 21 by Slant

[Hog_driver]

Just give me the Sparrowhawk HUD already!

[MicroShket]

В 18.06.2025 в 18:26, Slant сказал:

so we could maybe get a d tomcat.

How this two things are related to each other? Does Iran operates D models? No. Does original Iranian F-14A blocks are secret? No.

So, have you ever fallen out of the cradle? 

[draconus]

On 6/22/2025 at 6:46 AM, MicroShket said:

How this two things are related to each other?

The line of thinking is this:

Iran still have some number of F-14As that need parts and upgrades badly. USA don't want any of the parts to get into Iran so they destroy every airframe they have only keeping a few in the museums. They also don't want Iranians to get any possible upgrade docs (like D manuals). Hence, once all Iranian F-14s get destroyed there may be no incentive to keep the D docs secret apart from the systems they deem still confidential like radar, DL or IR sensor.

[Hog_driver]

"so we could maybe get a d tomcat"...

Flight simming turns people into monsters, it seems.

(I'm not saying I'm any different)

[Spurts]

The IR Sensor is still going to be ITAR controlled 

[MicroShket]

17 часов назад, draconus сказал:

there may be

That's the key part. Because F-14D is so different from the basic version that it makes sense to classify all variations of the F-16 and F/A-18 so that Iran can't get ideas about newer hardware and software. But that's not happening. 

Moreover, Iran uses contemporary Su-35, when F-14 is an airframe from past times...