One less F-14 to worry about.

[geetrue]

Notice the area of the crash.

All of the areas it could have crashed in and they found a nice place near Iran's first nuclear plant.

Air wing for protection of Iranian nuclear program perhaps

The Fars report says the fighter plane crashed due to technical failure and that authorities have recovered the wreckage outside Bushehr, a port city with the same name as the province. Bushehr is known as the location of Iran's first nuclear power plant

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[magicstix]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Notice the area of the crash.

All of the areas it could have crashed in and they found a nice place near Iran's first nuclear plant.

Air wing for protection of Iranian nuclear program perhaps

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Not much protection. We built the damned things we know how to destroy them.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Notice the area of the crash.

All of the areas it could have crashed in and they found a nice place near Iran's first nuclear plant.

Air wing for protection of Iranian nuclear program perhaps

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Yea but the Tomcats are based out of Bandar Abbas (their main navy base and home of their Kilos)

Bushehr is home of some of their ship building and their naval academy ( 28°53'48.34"N 50°51'2.79"E). This is the layout of their air defenses around the city:

The Purple Triangle is an SA-5 Site, the Green Square is a SA-6 Site, Yellow are HAWKs, the Red is a HQ-2 (SA-2) site.

[Agiel7]

Remembered reading that Iran had managed to procure some Russian-built SA-10s from Belarus. In the event of hostilities. I should think those things are of greater concern to the USAF and USN aviators than a meagre fleet of poorly maintained F-14s with equally neglected AIM-54s.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Agiel7

Remembered reading that Iran had managed to procure some Russian-built SA-10s from Belarus. In the event of hostilities. I should think those things are of greater concern to the USAF and USN aviators than a meagre fleet of poorly maintained F-14s with equally neglected AIM-54s.

Well they managed to produce some trucks with 55 gallon drums on the back made to look like SA-10s. Not sure how much of a threat they are...

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Well they managed to produce some trucks with 55 gallon drums on the back made to look like SA-10s. Not sure how much of a threat they are...

Do you have pictures of those "missiles" and their "launchers"?

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

Do you have pictures of those "missiles" and their "launchers"?

No missiles just launchers...

http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/ir...lded-together/

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

No missiles just launchers...

http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/ir...lded-together/

Thanks... I agree. That "launcher" setup doesn't look genuine when compared to pictures of real S-300/400 series missile launchers.