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Originally Posted by JA Boomer
wabpilot…I could hound you for days on end trying to gain more info on the Tomcat, I will try not to do so, but I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind answering just a few more questions?
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No problem.
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I’m just wondering why they [Iran] choose the Tomcat over the Eagle.
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That I do not know.
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As a side note, I just recently read a document that talked about how Canada tried to get the F-14 transferred from Iran to Canada after the change in government in Iran and the US suspending support for the aircraft. Wow, how I wish that deal had gone through! Haha
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I think after you helped one of our diplomats get out the chances of Iran giving you anything was over and done with.
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Also, I’ve read a quote from an F-15 pilot saying “we down get low with the F-14”. Is there any truth to this, in a dogfight is the F-14 more lethal at low altitudes?
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Variable geometry. The F-14 is very much at home in lower altitudes. The F-15 is more comfortable up high.
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Last one, I promise! I know that the F-15E Strike Eagle gives its pilots a fairly bumpy ride down low to the ground due to its low wing loading. Given that the F-14 shares some design similarities with the Tornado and the F-111 (two of the best low-level attackers around) does the F-14 have good high speed low-level handling characteristics? I’m not sure I you and your squadron mates ever practiced low-level bombing techniques.
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I'll post more on this later, I have to pick the grand kids up from school.