the likelihood that Iran will make any significant procurement of new fighter jets anytime soon is pretty slim, despite the increased necessity of doing so for the future of its air force.

The Tomcat had 10 hardpoints that could carry a payload of 14,500 pounds. As the primary fighter jet featured in "Topgun," viewers only glimpsed a fraction of what it could do. So when Iran had ...

Small images (click on photo for larger version): 1. One of the first notions for what eventually became the famous "Anytime Baby" Tomcat patch. It was the idea of the then project pilot ...

It would be like clubbing a baby ... the Iranian air force—which to this day flies American-built warplanes. The best of Iran’s decrepit fighter aircraft fleet is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

2 An Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighter (undated). Grumman built three versions of the F-14s between 1969 and 1991 at its factories in New York State. A total of 712 were produced.

Could Iran's F-14 Tomcat Take on the F-22 Raptor ... It would be like clubbing a baby seal. Of course, that’s just in the case that Iran’s leaders are foolish enough to take the United ...

Following the fall of the Shah regime in Iran in 1979, the United States wanted to cut off the Islamic Republic’s aerial fleet. “Over the years, Iran has successfully been able to circumvent these ...

According to aviation observers, Iran bought nearly 80 F-14 Tomcat fighter planes from the US in the years before the 1979 revolution, when they cut off diplomatic ties. Some of these aging planes ...

Aziz Nasirzadeh as the new air force chief. Gen. Nasirzadeh, a former F-14 Tomcat pilot and veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, has been the air force's acting commander since 2017. He succeeds Gen.