Sad end for a once great A/C

[Cypherus]

Seems the US military were serious about there approach to the disposal of retired F14's

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/...ml?ESRC=dod.nl

[FakePilot]

Yeah I thought this was weird. I read it on CNN. They want to destroy them because Iran might get their hands on the parts? There's gotta be more to the story.

[treadigraph]

Well, when they was friends if ours (pre-1979) the Yanks sold the Iranians (the Shah) F-14s, So I'm gamboling around the assumption that the Cousins do not want any ex-USN F-14 parts heading Tehran-wards...

[nano404]

They want to destroy them because Iran might get their hands on the parts?

More careful about these parts than they were with those F-15 parts that Iran is gunna eventually get that they sold off earlier this year, seeing that Iran is the only F-15 operator if I remember correctly? Or else it would be a field day for Iran, new F-15 and F-14 parts.

I love the F-14 though

[henry crun]

nano404: you say "Iran is the only F-15 operator", please tell me who they got them from, and how long they have had them.

[Brian Abraham]

henry, tink he confuses it wit F-5. Still, Iran the only operator of F-5s? Tink the boy has some learnin to do.

[yowie]

Think the Singaporeans mite still have a few F5's, least they a coupla years ago