If any plane needs a thread then it has to be the F-14.
Currently one of the best planes opertional if not the best. It is in service with the USN and IRIAF. Both nations have used it in live combat in very mnay roles. The USN has used it for fleet defense, escort, strike, recce and to guide LGBs dropped by F/A-18s and the IRIAF used it for air combat missions and at least one strike mission.
Weapons it has been cleared to launch
AIM-54A/C
AIM-7E/F/M
R-73E (IRIAF)
AIM-9P/L/M (any version)
R-550 Mk.2 (IRIAF)
JDAM (USN)
Laser Guided Bombs (USN)
Planes it has shot down
MiG-25PD/RB/BM
Mirage F-1EQ
MiG-23MS/MF/ML/BN
MiG-21MF/bis
Tu-22B
Tu-16
H-6D
Su-20/22M-3/4K
It has also shot down C-601s, SS-N-2s, Exocets and Silkworms.
The one plane that shot them down was the Mirage F-1EQ-6 which was in 2 dogfights towards the end of the war.
To bad it is being phased out for such a bad replacement. Who knows maybe one day the "super horror" and F-14 will fight in live combat.
Currently one of the best planes opertional if not the best. It is in service with the USN and IRIAF. Both nations have used it in live combat in very mnay roles. The USN has used it for fleet defense, escort, strike, recce and to guide LGBs dropped by F/A-18s and the IRIAF used it for air combat missions and at least one strike mission.
Weapons it has been cleared to launch
AIM-54A/C
AIM-7E/F/M
R-73E (IRIAF)
AIM-9P/L/M (any version)
R-550 Mk.2 (IRIAF)
JDAM (USN)
Laser Guided Bombs (USN)
Planes it has shot down
MiG-25PD/RB/BM
Mirage F-1EQ
MiG-23MS/MF/ML/BN
MiG-21MF/bis
Tu-22B
Tu-16
H-6D
Su-20/22M-3/4K
It has also shot down C-601s, SS-N-2s, Exocets and Silkworms.
The one plane that shot them down was the Mirage F-1EQ-6 which was in 2 dogfights towards the end of the war.
To bad it is being phased out for such a bad replacement. Who knows maybe one day the "super horror" and F-14 will fight in live combat.
Comment