>An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) F-14A Tomcat (3-6072) pictured before takeoff for a patrol mission in recent nights.Post your swing wings
>>65640605>develop fighter with big, hooked nose and a penchant to consume lots of money>give it to the iraniansWhat did Grumman mean by this?
>>65640605>patrol mission in recent nightsI don't think the tomcats fly in this war. Firstly because israel bombed them all on the ground day 1 (because they hate anything beautiful in this world), secondly because iranians are ground hugging like crazy to avoid radars the very few times they actually operate fighters
>>65640654>Firstly because israel bombed them all on the ground day 1 (because they hate anything beautiful in this world),Nah, that's just yid propaganda. All the F-14s they hit were stripped airframes and the Iranians were flying MiGs over Tehran on the very first day. The Jews were so asshurt over their total ineptitude they started bombing civilian airliners lmao.>secondly because iranians are ground hugging like crazy to avoid radars the very few times they actually operate fightersI imagine they're using the F-14s as sort of mini-AWACs far back from the front line to detect incoming threats and rely the information to hidden SAM sites or closer fighters for interception.
>>65640628Iran contributed to the development of the Kitty. They wanted it for its radar/missile combo since setting up ground based radars at the time in Iran because of the topography would have been inefficient and costly. It was basically a quasi AWACS that had long range missles in Iran.
>>65640674But why did they make it look like a banker?
>>65640671If they had such air control why did a YAK trainer get shot down by an F-35?
>>65640677I told you retard, its big ass radar. Get a better joke.
>>65640688I guess that makes sense. It wasn't a joke, to my it looks like an Israeli's wet dream, a well oiled combat machine with a massive hooked honker.How did the F-111 escape the Jew nose? I thought it also had a similar system.
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>>65640685The fact that it was a stealth plane kinda shows that they still have control over their airspace. Yaks were probably sent into more contested airspace since its literally just an armed trainer and is basically disposable. That Yak was literally the only plane the Jews/Americans shot down. Qatar shot down 2 Su-24s lol.>>65640702>Israeli's wet dream, a well oiled combat machine with a massive hooked honker.F-14's honker wasn't honker enough for the Jews so they had to make this thing.
>>65640722>Qatar shot down 2 Su-24s lol.Dont forget about the Kuwaiti tripple kill
>>65640722no, no it doesn't lmao.the US has air superiority over iran.
>>65640845sure
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Jesus, it's a shark!
>>65640628Why was Grumman allowed to develop a fighter for a hostile nation?
>>65640605was this picture taken before or after their parts cannon f-14s were obliterated
It's genuinely impressive that the Iranians kept the F-14 and F-4 flying into the present. Considering they were having to make parts or find substitutes that could be made to work.
>>65641115They weren't hostile then, anon.>>65641125Forget the F-4s and F-14s, I want more pictures of the stuff in the back, the Zenit, what eventually became the Saeqeh, behind the 707 and then the Dorna (?) trainers in the back left. Any more pics of them?
Never mind, those are not Dornas, but clearly Tazarv or Owj or Ya Hossein, depending on the source which you consult.
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>>65640881>shows incredibly lucky 1 time hit on a single aircraft using an unreliable method of attack that fails the moment it's cloudy. doesn't actually destroy the aircraft, aircraft lands at airbase, never happens againthis cope is even more pathetic than what the serbs did in 1999, at least they actually got to claim they shot a single aircraft down, you don't even get that.so anyway, the US has air-superiority, i accept your concession.
>>65642759Yes, yes, America has air superiority while our fighters get shot down and we've lost nearly half our drone fleet.Go away now.
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>>65642809Stop them from bombing you, then>we didn't NEED the Ayatollah
>>65642809>ourlol>f-fighters get shot downthey didn't though, one was hit, then landed at an airbase.i'm assuming i'm talking to a human here, not an animal, you do actually know what air superiority means, right?>Military doctrine defines air superiority as a degree of control that allows operations to be conducted at a given time and place without prohibitive interference from enemy air and missile threatseven if iran actually managed to shoot down like at least 10 aircraft (they didn't), that would not stop the US from having air superiority, cope and seethe.>B-but we've s-shot down another drone!implessive, nobody cares nigger
>>65640605Summoning all Panavia tornado enjoyers. It might be getting old, but it's still cool as fuck and I'm not looking forward to the day they will be finally decommissioned...
>>65642912Who's still using these? I thought they went along with the Jaguar
>>65642953>Who's still using these?Only the Brits decommissioned them. Italy plans to use them until 2028, Germany should use them until 2030, and the Saudis are also still flying them, though i don't know for how long...
>>65641115>Why was Grumman allowed to develop a fighter for a hostile nation?Somebody should've said something before they began production of a carrier-borne fleet interceptor for a nation that lacks a navy
>>65640605That’s an interesting weapon loadout to take on patrol…
Friendly reminder that Iran is winning so hard that their strongest offensive in the last month was to fuck with France’s refrigerators.
>>65641115The official answer is that the Imperial State of Iran was very firmly allied to USA and the West at the time.The unofficial answer is that USA didn't expect Islamic nutjobs to be hostile or dangerous to USA because they would be occupied with Soviet Union, and directly supported the rise of Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East, creating a problem for everyone for at least a century to come.Khomeini had good contacts in USA and at best made sure they wouldn't do anything to stop him and at worst he was actively put where he was by CIA.
>>65644625Hell yeah, fucking over the French is always worthy of praise.
>>65644630To be fair, much of what was given to al-Qaeda was given by Pakistan rather than the US directly, and Salafism is pretty much entirely on Saudi Arabia, the Saudis themselves being the fault of the British for not supporting the Hejaz.
>>65644630Thank you for the answer anon, I know about as much about geopolitics as this board knows about guns.
>>65642881Yea, yea, nigger, this conveniently F-15 shaped rudder was just teleported into Iran.Not reading the rest of your ESL drivel.
>>65644625Friendly reminder than America is winning so hard that their strongest offensive in the past month was to blow up a cargo ship and let the IRGC down a dozen more irreplacable MQ-9s.
