Goodbye F-14

[ozanzac 0]

Does Iran still operate its F-14s or are they unservicable nowadays?

Are you sure? I recall them having only F-15s.

Nope, Iran recieved F-14's just prior to the revolution there. Definantly no Eagles.

I've heard conflicting reports about the Iranian Tomcats. Some have been along the lines of some Russian technology has been used to maintain what's left of the fleet, as many aircraft were canabalised, to reports that the entire fleet is in a state of disrepair, and that the Israeli's secretly imported parts.

[Grizzlie 0]

Iran has some F-14, few even in ready-to-fly state. Maybe year ago a have seen pic of iranian Tomcat armed with Hawk! They r tring to replace Phoenixes with them.

[HiddenKiller 0]

the f14 was the only plane at the time [maybe even now] that could target and destroy 8 planes or missiles at once

its always been my favorite jet, im gonna start saving to buy one of the us 8-) lol i wish..........

[Trenchfeet 0]

for more info read this article

Here  

It is my favourite Modern day fighter  

And a tribute  

[FSPilot 0]

The F-14 isn't the only plane on the chopping block. The C-141 Starlifter is a personal favorite of mine. My Dad flew them for most of his career and you can still see them around today. They're slowly being phased out by the C-17, which is admittedly a better airlifter. But I still hate to see the thing go.

The military's changing, which is a good thing I guess.

The only problem I can think of now is that the Navy's only got one real warfighting aircraft now. Sure it's got a lot of aircraft in it's arsenal, but you don't send an EA-6B to provide CAS. What's going to happen if the F-18 fleet is grounded for some reason?

[Assault (CAN) 1]

Quote[/b] ]What's going to happen if the F-18 fleet is grounded for some reason?

I don't think that has ever happened before, and the fleet of F/A-18's have been in use since the 1980's and have been upgraded ever since. So I doubt there would be any serious bugs in the design.

Yes, the F-14 was a great aircraft but I think the need for a pure fighter aircraft is no longer there without a rival superpower. I don't believe there is a single country out there that can match the U.S. in the air nowadays.... unless the E.U. wants to start something.

Tyler

[Placebo 29]

Quote[/b] ] and they built these jets without cutting edges

I assume he meant corners not edges, otherwise it sounds like they were built with obsolete technology

AceCombat posted this on the Opflashpoint.org forums......

Quote[/b] ]Here are some pics of the still in service up and running modified Iranian F-14s which they maintain them selves quite a feat i might add.

[toadlife 3]

The F-14 has allways been my favorite U.S. military plane.

It's amazing to me that a plane that was first flown in 1970 can (with a compentent pilot of course) still hold it's own against just about any plane on the planet.

Here is a page with some good info on the F-14...

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0119.shtml

[shinRaiden 0]

Figures, since the political table doesn't have any substantial AF opfor that would need a furball obilterator. The mission profile for the tomcat - go in so fast as to scare the bejeebers out of the bandits and zap them from 100miles out - died a long time ago.

Now the primary role is multi-role, which the hornet fits better at. If you need to run beggars canyon popping womprats with lgbs, you're not doing it at mach two with phoenix's.

It's the same as the Mig-25. That was designed strictly to take out the Valkyrie (which would have really been fun to see) before the Soviet ground-to-air missiles were sufficently developed. The F-15 was designed as a counter to the foxbat, but they got real lucky and ended up with a platform that blended well into a variety of mission profiles, that the -14 did not.

I hope the USAF has the presence of mind to keep a squadron at least and have them tour with the blue angels.

[FSPilot 0]

Quote[/b] ]What's going to happen if the F-18 fleet is grounded for some reason?

I don't think that has ever happened before, and the fleet of F/A-18's have been in use since the 1980's and have been upgraded ever since. So I doubt there would be any serious bugs in the design.

Yes, the F-14 was a great aircraft but I think the need for a pure fighter aircraft is no longer there without a rival superpower. I don't believe there is a single country out there that can match the U.S. in the air nowadays.... unless the E.U. wants to start something.  

Tyler

It could happen. The FAA (even though it doesn't have jurisdiction over the US military) has grounded entire fleets of aircraft before for safety reasons. They can put out things called airworthiness directives that will ground an entire fleet of airplanes until something is fixed.

I remember once they put out an AD because a very common plane called a Cessna 172 had a rotting problem at it's wing roots.