Did Iran Find Aliens or Just a Secret, Super Fast American Spy Drone?
There has been plenty of talk of UFOs, but even this instance appears likely to have involved a secret plane or drone rather than something out of this world.
Key point: Iran patrols its skies with the old, but realiable F-14. Here is it how the Iranian Air Force encountered something very weird.
Iran is the only other country besides the United States to operate arguably history’s most powerful interceptor aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat. And the Islamic republic has worked the twin-engine, swing-wing fighters
hard.
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
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The two countries made for strange bedfellows.
Here s What You Need to Know: Tel Aviv funneled vital arms to Tehran during the 1980s despite the Ayatollah’s increasingly anti-Israeli rhetoric.
At dawn on September 30, 1980 four American-made F-4E Phantom jets screamed low over central Iraq, each laden with air-to-air missiles and three thousand pounds of bombs.
Prior to entering Iraqi airspace they had rendezvoused for aerial refueling with a Boeing 707 tanker escorted by two more advanced F-14 Tomcat fighters the type immortalized six years later in the film Top Gun. And to complete the eighties action-movie vibe, they were embarked on a mission codenamed ‘Operation Scorched Sword.’
Since World War II, exceptional carrier-based fighters have repeatedly more than held their own against land-based adversaries.
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s What You Need To Remember: Designing an airplane that can fly at high speeds lugging heavy weapons loads, and yet still take off and land on a short flight deck a few hundred meters long has always posed a formidable engineering challenge. Sea-based fighters typically feature folding wings for easier stowage, ruggedized landing gear and arrester equipment, and greater robustness to endure the wear and tear from sea-based operations. These all literally weigh against the exquisite engineering exhibited by land-based fighters.