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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat has served with the United States Navy and the Imperial Iranian Air Force, then the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force [1] after 1979. It operated aboard U.S. aircraft carriers from 1974 to 2006 and remains in service with Iran. In-depth knowledge of its service with Iran is relatively limited. 79 F-14’s were delivered ...
Grumman F-14 Tomcat: US: Interceptor: F-14A: 40: 1974–present: 80 examples ordered, 79 were originally delivered; the only plane to use the Phoenix missile. 40 in inventory. [6] Iran currently has about 40 F-14 remaining with two of them having been upgraded to F-14AM [8]
In 2002, Iran with the co-operation of Ukraine, successfully started the manufacture of the Iran-140, a licence-built version of the Antonov An-140 transport aircraft. Simultaneously, Iran began construction of two domestically produced fighters, upgraded using technology from the F-14 Tomcat and the F-5 Tiger II.
A video shared on X claims to show an Iranian F-14 flying into Turkish airspace despite being confronted by a Turkish F-4 Phantom. Verdict: False The video is from 2021 and likely shows virtually ...
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Two F-14 Tomcats equipped with multiple missiles, circa 1986. A series of purges and forced retirements, as a consequence of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, resulted in the manpower of the service being halved between February 1979 and July 1980, leaving the IRIAF ill-prepared for the Iran–Iraq War (also called the "1st Persian Gulf War").
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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project.