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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike
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When I was 4 I had a GI-JOE tomcat. It had a lever on the upper fuselage that actuated the wings and the landing gear. I took it to show-and-tell in preschool and told everyone in my class I was going to be a fighter pilot someday and fly an f-14. Thats the reason I got in the Navy and the reason I am a pilot today. Now all I have is the 137 pictures of it on my hard drive. AND LET ME TELL YOU 99% of those pictures kick serious ass.
I don't know that I will ever stop dreaming about flying it.
I don't know that I will ever stop dreaming about flying it.
Except for Iranians, Tomcats in US Navy service will be retired by 23 Sept. NASA has asked for 3 for test work, but that deal has not been finalized. There was also interest in establishing a heritage flight of Tomcats by grabbing some of last VF-31 F-14Ds, but that had some hurdles that haven't been surmounted. Still hundreds in the desert and some B and D models to be held in war reserve just in case. As of yesterday, Tomcats in museums number 60+ with a few more likely to be provided out of last 11 assigned to VF-31.
Riper Snifle
OCC 194 TBS C 03-07
Does Iran build it's own F-14's now, or are they still flying the same ones we sold them in the 1970's?? If they are the same F-14's we sold them it must be one heck of an upkeep program they got going! 
Captain America
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What if a traitorous guy working for an American defense contractor has been selling Iran parts to upkeep their fleet of F-14's? Is this likely or am I just being a paranoid conspiracy theorist?
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TXHusker05
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It is possible, but unlikely. However, anyone will do anything for a price so you never know. From what I understand, the Iranians have let all of their F-14's get into a state of disrepair. After the embargo was placed on them, the last Tomcat they were supposed to receive was held (as was their money) and the Grumman service went with it. Who knows though.
There was a big case with US Customs folks here in SOCAL many years back where just such a thing was going down. I'm not privy to the details, but from what I understand, some contractors at Miramar were caught trying to sell F-14 parts to Middle Eastern interests.Captain America said:
Brett
fighterpfeif
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Word has spread that Iran can't use the Phoenix missile with their Tomcats, outdated, expired, ? But they are trying to retrofit some I-Hawk SAMs and use those instead. If they are indeed launching that program, then it can probably be said that a few aircraft are operational, probably not flying a hell of alot, but still able to get in the air. I would doubt their pilots would know what to do after that, they probably haven't really trained hard in the past 25 years or so, it would most likely be a turkey shoot. F/A-18Fs, F-22s, and F-15s getting easy kills, maybe we would get an ace if we were to launch air strikes against Iran.
kanakAttack
how much for the ape?
Brett327 said:
Here is an article about this incident (from 2000)...
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/f14-iran/post.html
This one is appeared only 3 days ago...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/16/AR2006041600779.html
UInavy said:
Someone's getting fired up for his upcoming deployment
