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For a long time, people in the West believed that F-14 Tomcat achieved its first air-to-air victories in August 1981 when two US Navy aircraft shot down two Libyan Su-22s. But by that time, Tomcats in Iranian service had already scored multiple kills. In fact, the first ones were achieved even before the full-scale war with Iraq broke out. Discarded by Western observers as hardly operational, IRIAF F-14s were nevertheless a key factor in the eight year long war. How they achieved their first success and what weapon they used, find out in this video.
Sources:
- Tom Cooper & Farzad Bishop - Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat
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- Kash Ryan - Air Combat Memoirs Of The Iranian Air Force Pilots: Iranian Air Force Pilots In Combat
1980-88
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- The Tomcat’s First Phoenix Kill
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- Tomcat’s First Kill
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