iran fighter

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Viking
We?

Are you a Persian living in Germany?

Probably to lazy to pray to allah 7 times a day.

[Neubob]

Originally posted by babek-
But do you really think that the wars of today are fought like old knight tournaments with plane against plane or tank against tank?

Not at all. If that were the case, technology and tactics would play less of a role than it does. As things are today, you're far more likely to get hit by something you never saw coming, and a fair fight, by modern standards, is one that a smart army would strive to avoid.

But, then again, I think the Tomcat was a pretty good embodiment of that doctrine. It was the first plane, if I recall, that could fire on up to 6 beyond-visual-range targets simultaeously, and with the Pheonix, no less. In the hands of a competant pilot, it would have been anything but a fair fight--which is exactly what the designers had in mind.

[ASTAC]

But I miss the old camouflage pattern of the F-14. Now they look like all F-14īs

Now most of em look like junk..Just so they can keep a few flyin'..Iranian F-14..not even briefed as a threat these days.

[Debonair]

i wonder how many USN pilots are thinking of going mercenary & flying for iran?
the tought of a target rich enviornment must give some of them a giant boner

[Maverick]

The report said the bomber Saegheh is similar to the American F-18 fighter plane, but "more powerful." It also said the plane was "designed, optimized and improved by Iranian experts."

[deSelys]

Originally posted by Airscrew
didnt anybody in Iran see Top Gun?  the F-14 rulz over the F-5

Get your facts right! Those weren't F-5s, they were Mig-28s!

[LePaul]

Knowing how fighter jets love parts, those Iranian F-14s must be much older versions....and surely many grouned due to lack of replacement parts?

At my local Civial Air Patrol chapter, we have a guy from Iran.  He was here, going thru fighter training in F-4s when the Shah was toppled.  He managed to get his family here and opted to stay here.   Super nice guy, very sharp pilot too.

[FUNKED1]

40 years ago Northrop evolved the F-5 into a twin tailed configuration.  Today we call it a Hornet.

[xNOVAx]

Originally posted by ASTAC
I know they are developing some kind of jet that has it's wings configured so that they look like a circle with stub wings sticking out of it..Saw it in Jane's ATWA 2006 edition

Here's a pic

All I gotta say is PWNED...

[rpm]

I thought all the Iranian F-14's mysteriously quit working in 1979.

[cav58d]

Wow...What a tiny cockpit

[CavPuke]

Originally posted by rpm
I thought all the Iranian F-14's mysteriously quit working in 1979.

There's an issue of the Smithsonian Air and Space magazine that has an article about the Iranian's use of the F-14s during the Iran - Iraq war.  Very informative, basically when the TomCat lit off the radar the Iraqi's began yanking and banking for the desert floor and running back to Baghdad.

[AWMac]

My money is on the F22 Raptor that will smoke Iranians.



Mac

[Kurt]

Originally posted by babek-
Yes - but we also have some F-14.
And the F-14 pilot with the most air to air kills was an iranian.

Also a nice looking design.

Not more than one or two of the Iranian F-14's remains operational today.  They were sabotaged when the U.S. Contractors left Iran in 1979 and have had no access to replacement parts.  

They are big pretty sun-shades today.

[Vulcan]

I watched Top Gun, those F-5's and Kfir's smoked the F-14's. Not to mention wasting F-16's in Iron Eagle AND Iron Eagle II.

So an F-5 with twin tails is definitely going to PWN that F22 (as long as the F-22 pilot doesn't listen to Queen)