Tomcats, Sukhois, Phantoms Oh My...

[TAdan]

Great pictures of the Russian Knights team in their Su-27's flying with Iranian F-14's and F-4 while returning from an airshow in Bahrain.

http://theaviationist.com/2012/01/31/ru ... ghts-iran/

[maxum96]

Well, I guess the Iranians still do have some F-14's flying. I thought they quit flying them years ago due to lack of spares.

[Warbirdnerd]

Well, I guess the Iranians still do have some F-14's flying. I thought they quit flying them years ago due to lack of spares.

They just lost one (and 2 pilots) last week:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html

[cooper9411]

Don't they still operate F-4's as well?

[RickH]

Yes they still have F-4Es and Ds. They bought 80 F-14s and have more of them flying than we might think.

Great pictures of the Russian Knights team in their Su-27's flying with Iranian F-14's and F-4 while returning from an airshow in Bahrain.

http://theaviationist.com/2012/01/31/ru ... ghts-iran/

Pretty amazing sight. Wish I could have seen that!

[TROJANII]

Yes they still have F-4Es and Ds. They bought 80 F-14s and have more of them flying than we might think.

Flying is one thing, I wonder how many of the systems are actually working. IE radar, missiles.

[cwmc]

There was a brand new, one test flight only, Iranian F-4 in the back of the main hangar at McDonnell in St. Louis when I moved there in 1990. A buddy took me to see the factory, or where I could go, I wonder where it went?
Chris...

[jtramo]

Yes they still have F-4Es and Ds. They bought 80 F-14s and have more of them flying than we might think.

Flying is one thing, I wonder how many of the systems are actually working. IE radar, missiles.

Considering they have their own nuclear program ill bet they can maintain the Toms systems.

Sad that the only way to see a flying Tomcat is in Iran.

[Old SAR pilot]

They have quite a number of F-14s that are fully operational. They have even modified a couple to carry HAWK SAMs (one under each wing....Read: Anti-AWACS). They probably had some help from the (former) Soviets, as they gave them one.