Something about an F-14 Tomcat in desert camouflage is just too cool.
Interesting video on the Iranian AF. It's damn-near the USAF of the 1980s. Their pilots are the same looks-wise as USAF pilots. They've got the '80 style MA-1 flight jackets with the 3.5" black leather nametags and the plastic encased rank. The flightsuits and harnesses are the same. They have the old HGU-33 single and dual-visor flight helmets. The same USAF-standard square-lens sunglasses with the straight-backs. This video is interesting with all the old-skool USAF stuff going:
F-4's with AGM-78 Standard ARM missiles, precursor to the AGM-88 HARM.
The F-14s with the AIM-7E-2s, or F's. The AIM-9s are a mixture of B/J/P models. And the F-14 with the MIM-23 HAWK missile on the external rail, as well as the revamped AIM-54A Phoenix missiles.
The F-4s with the ALQ-101/119 ECM pods and SUU-30 based CBU-52 and -58 cluster munitions, as well as AGM-65A/B EO Mavericks. The F-4E models equipped with the TISEO electro-optical target ID set.
Day and night Air Refueling currency the F-4s and F-14s keep with the KC-707s and KC-747s.
Old-school C-130A/B models.
The AH-1 Cobras, both single-engine G and twin-engine J models, modified almost like current US S and T versions with the flat-plate canopies and armed with LAU-3 rocket pods and TOW racks, as well as the nose-mount GAU-2 minigun or 40mm grenade launcher being replaced with the 3-barrel 20mm cannon; all done by the former Bell factory there.
CH-47A/B Chinooks. And locally-built Bell 214 Hueys, also from the Bell factory.
On the Soviet-bloc side, they have the former MiG-29s, Mirage F.1s and SU-24s of the Iraqi AF, when Saddam sent his planes for refuge in Iran during the first Gulf War, and Iran kept them.
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Interesting video on the Iranian AF. It's damn-near the USAF of the 1980s. Their pilots are the same looks-wise as USAF pilots. They've got the '80 style MA-1 flight jackets with the 3.5" black leather nametags and the plastic encased rank. The flightsuits and harnesses are the same. They have the old HGU-33 single and dual-visor flight helmets. The same USAF-standard square-lens sunglasses with the straight-backs. This video is interesting with all the old-skool USAF stuff going:
F-4's with AGM-78 Standard ARM missiles, precursor to the AGM-88 HARM.
The F-14s with the AIM-7E-2s, or F's. The AIM-9s are a mixture of B/J/P models. And the F-14 with the MIM-23 HAWK missile on the external rail, as well as the revamped AIM-54A Phoenix missiles.
The F-4s with the ALQ-101/119 ECM pods and SUU-30 based CBU-52 and -58 cluster munitions, as well as AGM-65A/B EO Mavericks. The F-4E models equipped with the TISEO electro-optical target ID set.
Day and night Air Refueling currency the F-4s and F-14s keep with the KC-707s and KC-747s.
Old-school C-130A/B models.
The AH-1 Cobras, both single-engine G and twin-engine J models, modified almost like current US S and T versions with the flat-plate canopies and armed with LAU-3 rocket pods and TOW racks, as well as the nose-mount GAU-2 minigun or 40mm grenade launcher being replaced with the 3-barrel 20mm cannon; all done by the former Bell factory there.
CH-47A/B Chinooks. And locally-built Bell 214 Hueys, also from the Bell factory.
On the Soviet-bloc side, they have the former MiG-29s, Mirage F.1s and SU-24s of the Iraqi AF, when Saddam sent his planes for refuge in Iran during the first Gulf War, and Iran kept them.
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