Context for the video ? Are these Iranian F14s?
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Question: how did Iran come to obtain F14s?
According to Wikipedia:
Having been exported to Pahlavi Iran under the Western-aligned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1976, F-14s were used as land-based interceptors by the Imperial Iranian Air Force. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force used them during the IranβIraq War.
Iran was Western-aligned during the Cold War. When the Shah's authoritarian regime was overthrown in 1979, Iran kept the military hardware that the US supplied the Shah with.
Follow up question: How did they keep the buggers running without OEM parts for nearly 50 years?
Mostly through turning others into parts. Their F-14 fleet shrinks every time they put a flight-hour on one.
Is it necessary to commit blasphemy sometimes?
Possibly, but this is just Israel being Israel.