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To: Taro who wrote (397324)	7/9/2008 8:15:57 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1577836

All of the advanced avionics and weapon systems are stripped from the aircraft. Look at Saddam's most advanced fighters from France and Russia. We knocked them down as soon as they took off. Even France and Russia didn't sell them advanced avionics and warfare systems. It's a far stretch to assume a surplus F14 is any threat.

To: Taro who wrote (397324)	7/9/2008 10:06:10 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577836

Iran makes their own planes now. The U.S. had an F5 phantom factory there, and it has been updated and revised. The planes are probably not a match for U.S. or Israeli planes in a dogfight, but they could take out a lot of supertankers while the other planes were picking their way through missile clusters. TP

To: Taro who wrote (397324)	7/9/2008 10:04:34 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577836

"Nobody has ever seen all of those F14s simultaneously in the air." So? It's been nearly 30 years. I doubt if any F-14s of that vintage are still flying any where in the world. They were fragile birds. And the gate is the engines. They need to be run on a regular basis. But, if you run them, you need to service them. And that requires training and parts. True, if they are disassembled and stored, then they can last. But that requires a) Knowing how to disassemble them and having the tools. or b) Having them already crated for storage. and c) Knowing how to put them together and having the tools. That includes the right torque on the bolts, knowing which bolt goes where, etc. Those engines pushed the state of the art of the 1970s to the limit. Maybe past. They were a huge maintenance nightmare until well into the 1980s because of it. The Iranians can't just take Abdul, who services lawnmower engines or even 727 engines, and have him work on them.