One less F-14 to worry about.

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

You are assuming that they have not come up with their own program to keep/upgrade the F-14s that they have.I know for a fact that they have performed since the late 90's a very successful program to modernize their C-130Hs which where built in the mid 70's.It is very possible for them to do the same thing with the F-14. Their are plenty of aircraft well over 30 years old still flying there are ways to repair all but the most worn out air frames.Like I said before Iran has found some way to keep all the 30+ year old support equipment running so they probably have found a way to keep the air frames going as well.FedEx also can get a good tax break for donating an old plane the rest probably get sold to some other smaller operator out there.

were also assuming that they've done this to all their tomcats. That kind of stuff is expensive to do, and very time consuming...and something I'm wondering if they have the technical expertise to do on an air frame that needs high G-loading. A C-130 is great and all, but lets face it, those air frames get a lot less loading on them than a fighter jet. Heck we still have the B-52 G which was introduced in 1961.