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Iranian F-14s Fly Again
by James Dunnigan
September 18, 2007

Iran has restored three of its three-decade old F-14A jets to operational status. More F-14As are to be restored this year and next. There is, however, the matter of credibility and capability. For decades, Iran has continually boasted of new, Iranian designed and manufactured weapons, only to have the rather more somber truth leak out later. Iran's weapons design capabilities are primitive, but the government has some excellent publicists, who always manage to grab some headlines initially, before anyone can question the basic facts behind these amazing new weapons.

For example, Iran says it began its F-14 restoration project in 2002. In that same year, Iran announced that 25, of the 79 F-14As it bought in the 1970s, were still operational. It's long been known that Iran began cannibalizing some of its F-14s, back in the 1980s, to keep others flying. During the 1980s, the F-14s were heavily used in the war with Iraq. In 1985, 25 Iranian F-14s flew over Tehran as part of a celebration. In the last year of the war, 1988, at an F-14 shot down an Iraqi jet, one of over 80 knocked down by their F-14s since 1980. That much is known, because there were witnesses and other evidence.

Less well known is that Iran established a smuggling operation to obtain F-14 parts, and manufactured some itself. Russia also helped with some custom made parts and refurbishment. But going into the 1990s, fewer and fewer Iranian F-14s were seen in the air. Whenever an F-14 took off it was big news, and difficult to hide. Word got around, and with hundreds of thousands of Iranians living in exile, the word was passed on. Thus the 2002 claim that 25 Iranian F-14s were operational, were not taken seriously. The new claims, that three are flyable, appear to be true. Some F-14s have been seen in the air, but don't expect another major, or even minor, flyover in Tehran. Iran says it is making new weapons for the F-14, without mentioning that the supply of U.S. made missiles ran out over a decade ago. The F-14 also needs new electronics, as part for those items are much harder to get than items needed to get the aircraft into the air. Iran can, at great effort and expense, get a dozen or so F-14s into the air.


Ljudi se trude...........a i nemoj o elektronici ovo ono ...........oni prave i sami nesto .....cisto samo da znas da ipak lete....pa ne znaju ameri bas sve mozda ljudi smislili nesto novo.....

ima li ko slike novijeg datuma iranskih tomcata u letu?

....nemam u letu ali imam ove...ako je ok...











.neki kažu da su jim pomogli rusi.......moguče da su sad od rusa kupili motore baš za ove ptice....ali neznam dali ide taj motor na F-14...trebao bi malo pretražiti...... 

Svasta, cak imaju i "surlicu" za tankovanje u zraku, da li imaju letecih tankera uopce? Ako su motori Ruski, stvarno je zanimljivo kako su ih "upasovali". Citao sam da su bili jako nepretni u pocetku rata sa Irakom jer je otislo svo Amersko osoblje, mehanicari, piloti za obuku itd. Kasnije su ovi malko iz knjiga, mlako iskustvo ipak naucili letjeti.

Imaju neke Boeing 707 i 747 tankere koje su kupili za vreme Shaha.

jp...

@HasBiba

Koji si ti kralj. Pa je'l ima nesto na Internetu da ti ne mozes da nadjes 

Ne znam , momci , da li je prica o nosacu tacna ili ne , sve je moguce . Pogotovu ako je stajao povucen iz upotrebe godinama . Posto su Rusi i ono sto su upotrebljavali lose odrzavali tokom vladavine Jeljcina , verovatno je da nosac koji je povucen iz upotrebe nisu ni pogledali . A cesto se desava da se prave razmere ostecenja vide tek kad pocne popravka .
Sto se aviona tice , ni Amerikanci ni Rusi nikome ne prodaju ono sto im je u tom trenutku najbolje u naoruzanju . Ako ste pratili izvestaje sa sajmova vazduhoplovstva u Farnborou i Burzeu videli ste da svaka zemlja dobija razlicite pakete motora , naoruzanja i elektronske opreme , i da ni jedna ne dobija sve ono sto je kao najnovije dostignuce ugradjeno u americke lovce . Doduse , tu su Amerikanci mnogo velikodushniji nego Rusi , ali ni oni ne prodaju najbolje .
Razlika izmedju Amerikanaca i Rusa je sto su Rusi previse sakatili svoje avione u proslosti , ali to danas nije slucaj .
Sto se remonta nasih aviona tice , mislim da je tu mnogo veci problem dotoka novca nego bilo sta drugo . Ne verujem da se nasi nisu odlucili koji program modernizacije hoce , jer je na tenderu morala da se prikaze krajnja cena i sta se za nju dobija . Uz to , modernizacija je mnogo slozeniji posao nego izgradnja novog aviona . Potrebno je da se aviona rastavi , da se svi strukturalni delovi ispitaju i vidi koliko su osteceni , sta treba ojacati , itd. Kad gradite novi avion svi delovi su novi , sasija je nova , samo sklapate , i to ide mnogo brze . Ovde se mora napraviti mesta i za mnoge delove opreme kojih nije bilo ranije . Poenta je da modernizacija obicno traje mnogo duze . A i izgradnja novog aviona ne traje manje od sest meseci od trenutka kada se zapocne do trenutka kada izadje sa linije . Da nije tako , ne bi se proizvodilo oko stotinu aviona jednog tipa godisnje , nego vise hiljada .