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Context for the video ? Are these Iranian F14s?
Question: how did Iran come to obtain F14s?
According to Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat
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.
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.