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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Question: how did Iran come to obtain F14s?

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

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 Iran–Iraq War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Follow up question: How did they keep the buggers running without OEM parts for nearly 50 years?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Mostly through turning others into parts. Their F-14 fleet shrinks every time they put a flight-hour on one.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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.