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Crazy__Donkey@reddit

So now that the risk of sipping old parts to iran is gone, usa can restore the old f14s to flight condition?
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

Unfortunately all the tooling and parts were shredded. So you will never see a flyable Tomcat again.
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Infinite5kor@reddit

At least until I'm president and you get the F-28 Super Tomcat. That is my entire platform.
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ScipioAfricanusMAJ@reddit

What is your stance on having sex with children?
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Infinite5kor@reddit

Not a fan
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Neat_Substance2451@reddit

Sorry but then you aren't interesting for the Republicans
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todayiwillthrowitawa@reddit

Sorry, disqualifies you for the job. Wouldn’t know what to do with someone like that.
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Axo2645@reddit

Better than anyone we have in office already!
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Large_Rooster4201@reddit

You sir, have my vote, my entire extended family's votes, and I ultimately volunteer my services to you as the Secretary of steal-whatever-shit-is-needed-to-make-super tomcat-real. No pay necessary.
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UniqueIndividual3579@reddit

TWZ wrote about the proposed Super Tomcat. It would have been a beast.
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cvl37@reddit

That’s not how that works 😄
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Lo-weorold@reddit

The Super Tomcat party sounds dope af
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whatsasyria@reddit

I never understood the naming convention for jets. Why 28?
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MaxTHC@reddit

I think they just took 14 and doubled it
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NarrMaster@reddit

It's double 14. It's twice as good.
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TK_TK_@reddit

I’ll max out in the primary and the general for you!
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

Say less.
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_mad_adventures@reddit

Never underestimate the power of an autist.
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No-Marsupial-1753@reddit

Wasn’t the F-14D the super tomcat? Shouldn’t we be aiming for a giga tomcat?
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MountainTwo3845@reddit

My F-196 will just eat your plane.
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soulseeker31@reddit

You have my vote, I'm not even from your country.
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drlongfinger@reddit

Make America tomcat again
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MinuteBid8615@reddit

Promote Now!
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Appropriate-Luck-372@reddit

Negative ghost rider the bins are full... 
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SerowiWantsToInvest@reddit

godspeed brother
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tatianatexaco@reddit

You have my vote! 🫡
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Theaspiringaviator@reddit

but they do have the designs right? so it would be possible + a ton of money$$ ?
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Iron_Fist26@reddit

But no-one with enough money to restore a fighter jet *would* restore a fighter jet
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Codezombie_5@reddit

Oh, you'd be surprised... You need to head over here to Bruntingthorpe in the UK, the enthusiasts there put one Cold War warbird back in the sky, and they might be working on another.
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GraveKommander@reddit

I have the feeling Red Bull would
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ticianlicious@reddit

Basically what Jack Roush did with the Mustang.
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frix86@reddit

Jared Isaacman might
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Resident-Coffee3242@reddit

Se eu tivesse dinheiro suficiente eu restauraria ambos, Myria e O F14.
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Aggravating_Speed665@reddit

Definitely got a reason to now
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

*Pepsi Points entered the chat*
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brandnewbanana@reddit

I would :( someone want to fund me?
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zonka81@reddit

Jared Isaacman begs to differ
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zerbey@reddit

For sure, a sufficiently motivated billionaire or government could get them flying again.
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Jaggedmallard26@reddit

There will be a handful of billionaires rich enough for this. The original program relied on economies of scale and now destroyed supply chains to get the unit costs down which means restoring it is either eye wateringly expensive artisan work in far more areas than you would expect or rebooting entire industries. Even then they probably couldn't afford it as liquidating so many of their assets to afford it would cause their net worth to collapse.
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zerbey@reddit

Exactly, if we (as in the USA) wanted to get a heritage flight of an F-14 we could probably make it happen, I'm sure the plans exist in a vault somewhere and we could contract out building the bare minimum "make it fly" requirements are. A billionaire, assuming they get regulatory approval, could certainly do the same thing.
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aqaba_is_over_there@reddit

In theory yes. If you could convince the company and government to do it and had enough money to engineer and bespoke build every part.
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Aethermancer@reddit

There are thousands of little details that go into manufacturing beyond just "the plans/designs" little tweaks and updates that don't get folded back into the overall design. A lot of those would also depend on technology that no longer exists. You'd be better off showing someone a picture of an F-14, saying "make me an aircraft that looks exactly like that" and not worrying about the designs at all. For an example, try to make wrought iron at a commercial rate today. Despite being relatively "simple", we no longer make it at commerical levels and our furnaces/forges have progressed to the point where you really can't make it anymore (boutique shops and batches can sort of be made, but this is just an analogy). You'd have to go back and design one from the ground up to make the raw materials. So the whole issue of possible gets tricky when you'd not just have to "build the parts, but "rebuild an entire industry just to be able to make the parts"
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NarrMaster@reddit

"If you wish to restore an F-14, you must first create the Universe" - Carl Sagan, maybe.
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aqaba_is_over_there@reddit

And the static displays where crippled in a way that is not viable to repair.
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Lost_Paladin89@reddit

Didn’t we discover a warehouse with f-14 parts that the US was still paying for?
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saidtheWhale2000@reddit

I never understand why do that, they did the same with the f22, and it cant be hard to store this stuff, especially when you just sent billions making it
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VegetableRetardo69@reddit

To shreds you say?
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Whaddyalookinatmygut@reddit

They broke their backs, literally.
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superdookietoiletexp@reddit

It’s unclear whether all F-14s had their wing boxes cut up. Odds are that there are a few at AMARG or wherever that could theoretically be restored to flying status. Nonetheless, our best bet for seeing a flying F-14 in the US again was to bring back one of the IRIAF birds. Assuming that the damage is anything less than superficial, that hope has now been extinguished.
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OldTimeyWizard@reddit

I’ve spent some time as a docent at an air museum and I’ve seen the Tomcat up close. They absolutely shredded those things in order to make them safe to display. Looks like a real hack job compared to other military aircraft I’ve seen gutted for display
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superdookietoiletexp@reddit

No doubt the museum pieces are non-flyable. But the question is whether there are any at the boneyard with the wing boxes intact.
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SnooBananas4958@reddit

The museum piece is arguably far safer to leave as is. Nobody’s gonna come steal it from the museum. And yet they went through all those lengths. There’s no way they left one in the boneyard to be found and restored.
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Jaggedmallard26@reddit

> The museum piece is arguably far safer to leave as is. Nobody’s gonna come steal it from the museum During the Falkland's war there were aircraft that had been donated to American museums with abandoned aerial refuelling kit still attached which were needed for the Black Buck Raids. The US government quietly let British engineers go into the museums after dark and remove the parts required. Granted thats with official approval but a hostile state could pay off/incapacitate museum security and quickly remove the components they need. It would be more of a heist than a military raid.
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superdookietoiletexp@reddit

That’s the whole purpose of the boneyard.
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Ok_Suggestion_6092@reddit

I was talking to the older guy that works at our local aviation museum about ours. According to him it came back from the Middle East in 06, got flown here, and a tug brought it inside the hangar where it’s sitting now. Allegedly DOD/Navy/Grumman never came in and de-milled it. I’ll say this much, the engines, ejection seats, and every piece of the interior are still in it as opposed to the ones you normally see with just dummy nozzles and the blacked out canopy to hide the fact the interiors are stripped.
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suckmywake175@reddit

As far as I know, that’s the same case as the one in my local museum.
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NarrMaster@reddit

That guy's museum's plane can be your museum's plane's wingman anytime.
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Infinite5kor@reddit

> Assuming that the damage is anything less than superficial, that hope has now been extinguished. I dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.
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ChazR@reddit

Why, and I ask you with kindness in my heart, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT? The F-14 was a bad, expensive, dangerous, and HUGELY EXPENSIVE platform. It killed a \*LOT\* of good pilots. Why do you want one? The F-14 was a bad solution to a poorly-formed question that was relevant for about four years as a Phoenix-carrier. The F-14 is the sort of thing you get when you give infinite money to idiots.
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MaximumBean@reddit

The F-14 is pretty
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__Rosso__@reddit

And cool
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NarrMaster@reddit

We need a stronger word for pretty and cool. Prettycool, or prool. Yes, F-14s are Prool.
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Crazy__Donkey@reddit

Because people, apperantly, fond it. And they dont pay the bills.
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Neat_Substance2451@reddit

But why should they? No matter how much, like any other kid who grew up with Top Gun, love the F-14, I don't see any logic or sense in restoring any F-14, not even as a war bird
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masteroffdesaster@reddit

yes please
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TurkKillian@reddit

No, I've seen this movie. There's one left and Tom Cruise is heading toward it right now.
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cheetuzz@reddit

> No, I've seen this movie. you mean documentary
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StreetYak6590@reddit

You mean propaganda
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Killentyme55@reddit

Please find the OFF switch...thank you.
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brandnewbanana@reddit

We know it and we’re okay with it
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kikiacab@reddit

You’re right but this is a place for jokes
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ValhallaAir@reddit

Typa guy to call paw patrol propaganda
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-_-_O@reddit

the downvotes kinda just give it away lol, they can’t even fathom it
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DiverDownChunder@reddit

Historical Documents >By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings
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carbonra@reddit

you mean Toum Kourosh right?
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Krojack76@reddit

Now I have an image of Tom Cruise running as fast as he can in my head.
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WolfSquare9694@reddit

They destroyed even more. Well, i won't really be sad if some 787s or smthn will burn, but when such rare aircraft being destroyed-it just gives me a bad feeling that we've just lost something cool and approached to uninteresting future of aviation. I don't want to speak my mind about Israel and what i wish for their aviation, just believe that "nothing bad"
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FlyAU98@reddit

Relax, they aren’t rare. There is at least 100 of them around in museums or otherwise on display that you can go look at all you want. That is what happens to outdated aircraft - they go to museums.
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Elios000@reddit

Up side if to this is it means some one in the West could by and restore F-14 now that they dont have worry Iran getting parts
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Pool-Supermodel-@reddit

So are there none left preserved anywhere or do they mean that the last operational tomcats lol, im confused by the wording
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

America shredded all parts when they retired the Tomcat, to prevent Iran getting the parts. This was because the Tomcat was Iran's best fighter by far. So all the American preserved Tomcats are really just shells. They're empty husks with everything stripped out. Might as well just be statues. They will never fly or taxi again. Iran had the last "operational" and "able to be flown" Tomcats.
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Daniel_JacksonPhD@reddit

Allegedly, there are a few that the Navy missed for stripping and have their full packages intact in a few museums, but that doesn't really raise the likelihood of seeing one fly as the Navy also got rid of the tooling for making spare parts.
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twarr1@reddit

Keep reading, but nobody here knows for sure. Those that do know aren’t going to be posting on Reddit.
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ComprehensiveCup7104@reddit

Museum pieces only, all servicable parts destroyed to ensure none made their way back to Iran.
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Basic_Climate_2029@reddit

F-14 Tomcat has been officially permanently deleted from the real world now but not in DCS, War Thunder, Roblox, VRChat, GeoFS, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Ace Combat Series, and More floating around the internet waiting to be Virtually airborne again for us to enjoy. https://preview.redd.it/otw8drt1wtng1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43378c2cf5e6628d3afeb5643d810c107d7f283c (Image from Gameboy Advance F-14 Tomcat) I hope this will make some people feel better
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Fyreffect@reddit

https://youtu.be/by-hCk6PVdE&t=1m44s Always loved DCS epic tribute to this jet.
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FighterJock412@reddit

[I also really love this one ](https://youtu.be/lhA3mnGA6Ek?si=iO1SIOdeWrLC3_3c)
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

Ace Combat 8 is out this year. You bet I'll be playing the F14 ASAP in the campaign.
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Basic_Climate_2029@reddit

I don't have enough money for that (more like don't want to spend) But 5 years ago someone gave me Meta Quest 2 as a Christmas gift and turn out that there two very good flyable F-14 world in vrchat and I played it a lot I still remember I took off the F-14 from the carrier in vrchat for the first time on October 6th 2024 10:46:21 PM.
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Neat_Substance2451@reddit

There are flight sims in VRChat?
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Dronizian@reddit

There's a whole community around it! Check out the group The Black Aces, they've got lobbies open pretty often. Most VRC flight sims can be played on a flat screen without VR, too.
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Pacifist_Socialist@reddit

Damn, I just got a psvr2 thinking I could play ace 7 on it but nope. Only the first one. Doesn't seem like 8 will have any vr at first anyway 
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BlueHarpBlue@reddit

F14 is dancing with the angels now
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CptnHamburgers@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/426phtux7ung1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e01a3dbdb853a5c51cfbda81589ad1590c745d8 Almost feel like getting another X360 to give the ol' girl a run out in Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
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Basic_Climate_2029@reddit

I also realized that you can setup a F-14 airshow in vrchat so that a F-14 airshow vr experience there. (Or you just fly it your self)
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thnx4coming@reddit

Rumor has it that Doug Masters was flying an F-16 code named “Iron Eagle” that bombed the last F-14.
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

We've lost Mryia, KC-747 and now apparently the last flying Tomcats.
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ChazR@reddit

Yes. Old stuff dies and new stuff replaces it. We also have the Eurofighter Typhoon hitting its straps, and they hunt and kill f-15s for fun. They would delete F-14s for breakfast. F-22s are an aging and tired system, but they are still incredible. F/A-18s are catching up with the Typhoon, and are an amazing BVR platform with some very cool non-kinetic SEAD abilities. Then there's the F-35 which is, on obvious combat performance, Actual Fucking Magic. And then the B-2 flies in in actual full cloud-free daylight and drops a set 8,000km from launch. In daylight. from about 15,000 feet. "You can't touch me.' In daylight. And the B-52s will be fighting the last residual cooling of the universe. Some planes are good. Some planes are bad. All planes get old. New planes are better than old planes. The F-14 was a stupid answer to a silly question and is now remembered in a movie. WHERE IS THE PHANTOM LOVE?
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Flesh-Tower@reddit

You must be fun at parties
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Raneynickelfire@reddit

Calling the F-22 aging and tired is... a unique perspective I suppose. Especially when an actual aging and tired airplane is in your next sentence.
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OmegaVizion@reddit

It's definitely weird that they consider the F-22 obsolete, but at the same time, the F-22 is such a weird plane because it feels like it's still this new, cutting edge technology, yet the youngest of them were built 14 years ago and it's been flying since the late 90s. It feels like a plane built for a war that never happened and (hopefully) never will.
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Eastern-Peach-3428@reddit

Yeh, considering that right now the F22 would kill anything else that flies. It is just beyond expensive to keep in the air.
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mikefrombarto@reddit

First F-22 flight was almost 30 years ago. It doesn’t seem like it, but it’s basically at the same point in its life as the F-14 was at the turn of the century.
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Cowbeller1@reddit

I can’t be the only one that stopped reading there. They’re dismissing that old planes are cool as fuck and simultaneously putting the F-22 in the same “old” class as the F-14. Like come on, be real lmao.
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ChazR@reddit

F/A-18s are still being built. The F-22 line was destroyed 15 years ago. There will be more new F/A-18s. The US Congress has legislated that there will be no more F-22s. BOTH OF THESE PLATFORMS ARE INCREDIBLE AND UNMATCHED.
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AlternativeOffer8188@reddit

Everything you said is wrong and you barely know shit.
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marcocom@reddit

I think everything you said here besides the B52 was wrong. The Tomcat had a radar about four times the size and strength of the euro fighter. The F35 is an exported aircraft and can’t hold a match to the F22 which we do not export and only gets flown by us because it’s nightmare fuel to anything in the sky.
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ArrowsOfFate@reddit

Small addition id like to add. We exported the f22 as well as f35 to China via bad operations security. https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/04/chinas-j-20-stealth-fighter-made-in-america-as-in-stolen-f-35-and-f-22-designs/
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dabarak@reddit

*"And the B-52s will be fighting the last residual cooling of the universe."* Classic! *"WHERE IS THE PHANTOM LOVE?"* I know guys who have flown Phantoms and then moved on to Tomcats. All of them preferred the Phantoms.
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coringbomb@reddit

Flying brick
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Zealousideal_Nail288@reddit

the f4 is underrated big sad we never got a supercriuse phantom
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FrVincentVattoli@reddit

Please don't remind me about Antonov AN-225 Mriya, it's heart-wrenching🥲
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Pacifist_Socialist@reddit

Ukraine will revive it as a super drone carrier
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FrVincentVattoli@reddit

I wish. We all wish. Using the second airframe , maybe? 🙂
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SubjectiveAssertive@reddit

The numbers have been crunched on that, it's not viable from a financial point of view Although from national pride...
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dontthink19@reddit

Ace combat style?
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BetCommercial286@reddit

The already copied the trucks so may as well 😂
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Pacifist_Socialist@reddit

YAS
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Axo2645@reddit

I don't want to see her in war
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woodkin@reddit

[you can visit the once largest fixed wing cargo aircraft in Google earth](https://www.google.com/maps/@50.4750475,30.3824161,3a,75y,354.56h,86.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipM3JNvR0hbap-GAW17YdN-FoEhojSbdc3n6zdww!2e10!7i10000!8i5000)
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xerojupiter@reddit

Let’s not be too dramatic.
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ky420@reddit

Yea that hurt
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Silicon_Knight@reddit

It’s how I still feel about the Avro Arrow :(
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CardinalOfNYC@reddit

We lost them for the same reason we had them. It rhymes.
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ExploringSimulations@reddit

Don't forget the AN-225 lost in Ukraine.
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Impossible-Page4197@reddit

How tf did you rack up 70 downvotes in 14 minutes, even after admitting you were wrong.
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Sixguns1977@reddit

I pretty much always upvote someone who admits that they made a mistake.
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Impossible-Page4197@reddit

Same
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dareal5thdimension@reddit

And 50 people all pointing out the same thing
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megal0w@reddit

That's what we reddit users like to call the impossible turn.
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Galf2@reddit

That's reddit for you lol
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Dolmetscher1987@reddit

But that's Mriya?
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Over-Replacement8312@reddit

Take the downvotes lil bro
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-ConfettiGhost-@reddit

Lil bro in the big 26 🥀
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OldStromer@reddit

Rough crowd this morning eh?
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RBR927@reddit

Do you know that’s Mriya?
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Paladar2@reddit

That’s Myria
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sampathsris@reddit

That's (the slightly misspelled) "Mriya" from the original comment.
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Akir760@reddit

That's Mryia
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Luka__mindo@reddit

He already said Mriya is officially name of AN-225
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Drowned-Puck@reddit

That's the Mriya he/she mentioned in their comment.
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namwoohyun@reddit

That is Mriya
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Galf2@reddit

it's literally the first plane he metioned lol.
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Nexusu@reddit

That’s the Mriya
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KfirGuy@reddit

Mryia is the An-225
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AceNova2217@reddit

"flying"
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DontFearTheMQ9@reddit

I'm willing to bet some bits and pieces were flying for at least a few seconds.
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VoluptuousBLT@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/vd4rxbyb6ung1.jpeg?width=447&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f02a6b95015ea7447f2eb91d0ea64a49bc2c0181
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Jazzlike_Climate4189@reddit

And the last 747-100
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victorsmonster@reddit

Everything fuckin sucks man
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CastorVT@reddit

Danger zone~ o7
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nilsmf@reddit

There’s a gap between «struck Iran’s F14 fleet» at a specific location and destroying the last F14. I am certain that IDF would proudly tell us with capital letters if they actually destroyed the last F14.
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GreenSkinFiend@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/sxfspvpjiung1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1041e9909ba1a63083d9f98c253d2466454e5140 there is still hope lol
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RaccoNooB@reddit

This is AI I believe.
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KarAccidentTowns@reddit

So much waste and destruction associated with war. Doesn’t seem worth it.
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Appropriate-Ad-8155@reddit

You guys fucking sad because an Iranian military plane was shot down? Oh take your propaganda somewhere else,
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Destriod777@reddit

I wonder if it’s just a painting on the ground again
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raidriar889@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/5z1ip238vtng1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f29daacb57df70b6d46764dcb2fc12ed47a5854a
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IamMefisto-theDevil@reddit

It was the most beautiful jet!
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BranSolo7460@reddit

Was it an actual F-14 fleet, or just another fleet of painted jets again?
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Miladic_Animations@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/gm2y42v8utng1.png?width=925&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e988c1af219c1230e81e91fadfa334c9158598e
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Sivalon@reddit

F
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Lyravus@reddit (OP)

1
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cortisium@reddit

4
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KingPotato_@reddit

Goodbye
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SharkSheppard@reddit

I hope everyone else read this in the AOL voice like I did.
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Miladic_Animations@reddit

r/AskOuijaRedux
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Dayumks@reddit

4
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aa2051@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/l1opgwwihung1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cea68f4e61677d407bdac3888a3438aa315ba4ba
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chunt75@reddit

My tax dollars vs my parents’ tax dollars
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Sufficient_Layer_279@reddit

So your parents are Iranian?
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chunt75@reddit

My parents' tax dollars probably paid at least in part for the US F-14s to be sold to the shah's regime
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Pure-Toxicity@reddit

They didn't, Iran paid for them.
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chunt75@reddit

I guess R&D paid for by the US taxpayer to develop the airplane doesn't count
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Neat_Substance2451@reddit

According to the same logic, European taxpayers paid the entire Jetblue fleet
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Pure-Toxicity@reddit

Yeah that Rnd was paid by the US taxpayer... For the US military, the F-14 wasn't developed specifically for Iran lmao
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Sufficient_Layer_279@reddit

We’re not going to convince any tankies with facts.
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macethetemplar@reddit

The Tomcats in most Museums were flown in and get inspected every few years as they are still owned by the military and considered emergency assets. In theory if the museum takes ownership and then after the grace period sells to a private party that party could get them airborne. Not going to say where but there was a tomcat inspected a few years ago and the team found 1000lb of fuel still in it, apparently had a weird drain procedure that wasn’t followed
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Jameswestfeld@reddit

I guess no Top Gun Maverick 3 🤷‍♂️
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Bouchie@reddit

\*PlaneTags starts making some discreet phone calls
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DevelopmentTight9474@reddit

apolgy for bad english where were u wen f-14 die i was at house eating dorito when phone ring “f-14 is kil” “no”
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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

[removed]
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Thirsty_Comment88@reddit

Another reason to fucking hate Israel 
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zerbey@reddit

Last **operational** F-14, there's plenty on display in museums around the World.
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FourFunnelFanatic@reddit

And even then, there isn’t any evidence that any of the Iranian Tomcats have flown in the last decade iirc
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PM_ME_YOUR_MAUSE@reddit

One flew to an air show in 2024!
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Neat_Substance2451@reddit

Yeah, one. And let's be serious, it was a smart move from a propaganda pov
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young_arkas@reddit

Afaik one crashed in 2019 during landing in Isfahan, so they must have been flying at least until then.
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Jackstack6@reddit

Yeah, I’m not aviation expert, but it’s not like it went extinct. Someone with a lot of money could make one flyable.
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pq11333@reddit

Israel loves destruction thats for sure. Lets home they dont attack any of iran's absolutely mind blowing heritage sites so tourists can one day get to see them!
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Ambitious_Guard_9712@reddit

fuck israel
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SpiritOne@reddit

I’m sad that they were destroyed on the ground. No matter what, the last of the flying tomcats deserved to go down fighting. Even if it was futile.
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rozzco@reddit

I used to really enjoy watching them launch from USS America (CV-66) with full AB blasting against the jet blast deflector at night. The way the sound shook every part of your body was quite an experience.
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IranianF-14@reddit

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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StannisTheMantis93@reddit

RIP homie. 🍾
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drajne@reddit

F14… she is no more more
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ggroverggiraffe@reddit

Guess you'll never find a mate...
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Resident-Coffee3242@reddit

NOOOOO!!!!
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WindpowerGuy@reddit

Yeah, that's the tragic thing that happened....
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External_Anteater730@reddit

Oh well, can't wait to see the Chinese copies
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Alert-Weakness-6060@reddit

Nah they just bombed ramps with clever paintings
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CharmingFit-503@reddit

But then how’d they get them, as an “imminent threat” for the past 43 years??
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Maplesyrup000@reddit

There are still several F-14s in museums in America. They’ll never fly, but we’ll still be able to see these birds.
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BillyRaw1337@reddit

\[my tax dollars\] versus \[somehow also my tax dollars\] meme
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sharktail_tanker@reddit

Iran paid for thosw cats in full, not a cent of US taxpayer money was spent to make them. If anything the US came out of the deal having made a profit
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N-cadherin@reddit

The tomcats were sold to Iran when the Shah was in power. They purchased them, you didn’t donate your tax money. The , the Islamic revolution happened and the new regime effectively stole the tomcats from the previous government. Now, Israel used aircraft it purchased to drop bombs that purchased on airplanes that someone purchased and someone else stole. So not exactly your tax dollars on either side.
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forbin895@reddit

Not quite. Israel annually receives a baseline $3.3B in military aid funded by US taxpayers, plus additional "wartime" support (on the order of $15B in the last two years). They're by far the largest recipient of US taxpayer support for their military. Most other countries (e.g., all the Gulf countries) get authorization to buy US weapons, and then use their own money to buy them. I don't know the purchase history of the F-14s but I assume that half of your comment is correct.
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N-cadherin@reddit

Yes, but consider that US military aid to Israel is money spent at American companies. Israel also purchases as much or more equipment with its own money than it gets from aid. All the money together is spent at US companies that employ Americans. This is the same with aid to Ukraine (nearly as much in recent years as Israel). Both countries are at war with enemies of the USA (and the West) so it is really an excellent investment into the US economy that supports its allies to fight its enemies.
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bonadies24@reddit

Your parents and grandparents' tax dollars versus your tax dollars
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jimirs@reddit

And people dying because can't buy some asthma spray/pump thing.
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ggroverggiraffe@reddit

Don't know why [it's hard to breathe our air...](https://i.redd.it/f0nh7wyybung1.jpeg)
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rollem@reddit

I bet we’re still paying interest on it.
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rallar8@reddit

It’s actually grandchildren’s tax dollars at this point.
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mattumbo@reddit

Pretty sure Iran paid for all their jets at a profitable rate, they were just the only country that wanted the F-14 and got approved to buy them (probably because they were willing to pay the very high sticker price). So not really blowing up tax dollars, that deal was straight profit and helped offset the costs of the program otherwise born by the DOD via our tax dollars. This is the same reason we are happily selling F-35 internationally, it’s bringing the unit cost down for everyone through economies of scale
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ScienceMechEng_Lover@reddit

Why did they get the F-14 instead of the F-15? Given all their jets are land based, the F-15 is just plain superior in every single metric, right?
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PM_ME_YOUR_MAUSE@reddit

The Shah wanted the AIM-54 phoenix in order to deter the Soviet supersonic MiG-25 from overflying Iran.
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JumboTrijet@reddit

There’s much more to that story. See reply above
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PM_ME_YOUR_MAUSE@reddit

Yes, I’m well aware. Kickbacks from Grumman, etc.
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JosedeNueces@reddit

Iran was also approved for the F-16 with first deliveries due in late 1979, which would've made them the 3rd foreign operator (and 1st non-NATO) operator of them before even Israel got them, but the Islamic Revolution happened in February
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JumboTrijet@reddit

This is a good comprehensive video on that topic. https://youtu.be/L3HYrasBB4k?si=cLnU_SQnMYOc-Qrc
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Purona@reddit

probably because receiving the f14 was an event that happened before the f15 even entered service
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UmberHolloway@reddit

The economies of scale argument is real, same logic applies to why the US pushes F-35 exports so hard. Still a weird feeling watching the last operational Tomcats go out this way rather than in a museum somewhere.
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pulse7@reddit

The same tax dollars line repeated infinitely on
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Endless_Haze@reddit

this is a hilarious biproduct of US intervention lol “oh no the current tyrannical regime is destroying the planes we gave to the last tyrannical regime noooo”
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InfiniteFraise@reddit

Fuck usa and Israel
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Cpdio@reddit

How do we know were actual tomcats and not just drawings xD.
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The_wulfy@reddit

Did Israel strike the Pima Air & Space Museum? Cause there is one sitting in their main hanger right now otherwise.
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Inspi@reddit

sad upvote
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Unhappy_Car6005@reddit

So we sold them to Iran then blew them up?
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FullTime4WD@reddit

Man if i was tom cruise i would have bought one from them, shame....
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smackthenun@reddit

I guess it was a highway to the danger zone
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Russian1Bear@reddit

So F-4 Phantoms outlived Tomcats...
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spddmn77@reddit

Hard to believe any of their F14s were actually airworthy at this point
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BTrane93@reddit

Is it? They're like 20 years younger than the B-52, and we've still got multiple bases dedicated practically solely to the B-52.
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young_arkas@reddit

They were at least until the late 2010s. One crashed in Isfahan in 2019 and they flew a few anti-ISIS missions with the Russian Air Force before that. And since they reverse-engineered the F-5 enought to build unlicensed copies, they probably could produce some spares by themselves. The F-14 were their most advanced fighters for decades.
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meesersloth@reddit

Didn’t even let her get off the ground to die with honor.
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countingthedays@reddit

Which is probably a great thing for the guy who would have been sitting in it.
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FourFunnelFanatic@reddit

Fortunately are well over 100 intact Tomcat airframes in preservation around the world
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mkosmo@reddit

The elimination of the Iranian Tomcat fleet at least makes the USN's concerns about parts for the museum fleet less problematic.
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cashew_nuts@reddit

Take this news with a grain of salt. Israel lies... A LOT. Let's see how this plays out
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Weary-Astronaut1335@reddit

As if they were actually combat capable anymore. Iran has been cannibalizing them for decades.
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Sad-Ad7962@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/05ar53z5aung1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc7a5e4535634d827dd105a5aa6072f5ee7aa181 R.I.P
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stubwonder@reddit

They are no more more
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Waldolaucher@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/lg0imdvs9ung1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=de5ad5202305b4e6683873698e30a243aac19f13 No problemo!
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MD-80-87@reddit

Farewell to the Swing Wing
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_Oisin@reddit

"If this is true" Because you know Israeli's just lie about everything.
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MysticMarauder69@reddit

It's wild ot me that the US wouldn't preserve these planes at least 1-2 of them. Like keep an example of our greatest machines for airshows and such.
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Equivalent_Thievery@reddit

Always was one of my favorite planes. I'm sure that was influenced by 80s movies that heavily featured it.
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Happy_vibes16@reddit

Where on earth would Iran find f14’s in the first place
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Bwleon7@reddit

US sold them to Iran in the 70s. 
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Happy_vibes16@reddit

There’s a bit of sarcasm in that question.
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DefendTheStar88x@reddit

Purchased from the US during more amicable times.
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ComprehensiveCup7104@reddit

Pre-1979 revolution Iran was a police state and anti-Soviet ally of the U.S.: [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi)
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ertyertamos@reddit

Post 1979 Iran is a police state too, so not sure why that was a necessary call out.
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Sweet_Atmosphere_895@reddit

Iran was one of the launch customers for the F-14 and provided a large amount of funding to keep the program solvent. This was before the revolution in 1979 when Iran was an ally of the US. The Shah needed an aircraft to deal with Mig-25s that could overfly with impunity due to the available performance of the F-4s in their inventory at the time. After 1979 Iran had a national program to sustain the aircraft including surreptitiously obtaining parts, which is why the US Navy disposed of the aircraft and spares.
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Kayvanian@reddit

Iran bought 80 of them under the Shah in the 1970s (79 delivered before the revolution happened)
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SucculentlySuccinct@reddit

Before 1979
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Luthais327@reddit

They bought them in the 70s.
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FourFunnelFanatic@reddit

We sold them 80 F-14s in the 1970s. When the Shah got deposed, they were inherited by the Islamic regime
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Putrid-Object-806@reddit

From the US in the late 70s
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PaddyMayonaise@reddit

We se we sold them to them before the Islamic revolution.
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Lonely_Accountant524@reddit

The US?
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Pristine_Barber976@reddit

America really doesn't have any???
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brandnewbanana@reddit

There’s 8 in the boneyard that might be able to be restored, plus all the ones on display in various museums. Parts for the wing box will be a huge issue
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superdookietoiletexp@reddit

Did the F-14s at the boneyard have their wing boxes cut? I’ve searched and searched, but can’t get a definitive answer to that question. I guess that those who know have no reason to talk about it.
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brandnewbanana@reddit

I just looked myself and I can’t find any confirmation one way or the other. I’m not sure why they would cut the boxes on such a small amount of planes left intact. I’d like to think they’re able to be restored, but the military works in mysterious ways. Like how all of the retired f-117’s are actually just in cold storage and can be pulled out if needed, I like to think the desert cats are whole and there for when a plucky pilot needs to steal a plane for democracy or something.
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superdookietoiletexp@reddit

The purpose of AMARG is to preserve aircraft - or parts thereof - for future use. I don’t know if there are F-14s at the boneyard outside of the history and celebrity rows, but if so I’d bet good money that their wing boxes are intact.
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FourFunnelFanatic@reddit

There are over 100 in museums in America, but none in operation or even airworthy condition
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PaddyMayonaise@reddit

Yeah replaced them and went scorched earth on the retired ones so the bad guys can’t get em
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Miladic_Animations@reddit

The US Navy retired them in 2006, then destroyed every non-preserved unit to prevent Iran from getting their hands on any spare parts.
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Richuntilprovenpoor@reddit

Do we really believe Israel now? Is there any unbiased proof?
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BustyPneumatica@reddit

War and death is a sad day for everyone.
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Visual_Swimming7090@reddit

Pray for the preserved '57 Chevys in Cuba.
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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

Israel doesn't really GAF about anything than their malign agenda. They certainly don't give a damn about preserving aviation history. Not when the planes in question are owned by their never ending enemy.
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TheDamus647@reddit

RIP to a cool AF plane
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Quiet_Mud5752@reddit

Can any reddit military experts explain to me how any country that is at war with a country that has missiles could have an airforce/navy? How do you even defend against a rocket barrage against ships sitting in port or planes in hangers? Anti missiles systems at literally ever single base that also never fail?
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p0r1x@reddit

Bro… how is Maverick going to escape Iran now after getting shot down?
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ChazR@reddit

It's Top Gun isn't it? the insane love for a 1960s-tech fighter from the 1970s that was fast in a straight line, couldn't turn and spent more time in the hangar than a lazy staff Sgt? It was a good plane for its job and it died a very long time ago, long after many much better planes were in service. 7o. I can understand the love for the F14 - a Cold War relic that was COOL and had a whole movie. The A-10 people scare me.
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CARCaptainToastman@reddit

I think you broke your elbow on that salute.
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ChazR@reddit

(that's a thing from the EVE online community. A well-intentioned salute from a noob done with the wrong hand, in the wrong way, at the wrong time, to the wrong person. We have all seen this salute.")
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The_Bard@reddit

Doubt they were even air worthy. US hasn't sold them parts in decades
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Top-Efficiency-7329@reddit

better to be a terrorist regim than an israel cock sucker
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Ok_Reception_5262@reddit

it had a good run. RIP https://preview.redd.it/2xs5n28m2ung1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ce4a363ae8f6cca2dafa99393c11de5bdb2de9f
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dcknight93@reddit

On the same day Nimitz left Bremerton for decommissioning too. Damn
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BlindChicken69@reddit

Where they even operable for the last 20 years?
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Pacifist_Socialist@reddit

A canon event on par with the slaughter of Hamambe
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1202burner@reddit

I wonder how the Isreali pilots felt bombing those things. They're pilots too, I'm sure it didn't feel good at all.
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AGl_ToX@reddit

💔👏
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mobies@reddit

Perhaps if the risk of Iran repairing theirs is gone they can be rebuilt in the US for some displays?
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RetiredPath@reddit

What a stupid idea. Aircraft are NOT as important as human beings. Islamic regime slaughtered 30,000 of its own people who were protesting peacefully. We must disarm the regime completely since they refuse to stop building nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles; they are a threat to the entire world, including many other Muslim countries.
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Sage_Blue210@reddit

Heard is was 30,000 every month.
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PhillyCheese98@reddit

All hail the mighty Tomcat!
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MD-80-87@reddit

There's no one else flying the F-14 now ?
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Field1_Field2_Number@reddit

Going to the USS Lexington tomorrow to see theirs.
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Alauer16@reddit

Would’ve played no strategic value. Don’t see how it’s necessary to spend munitions this way and worse beyond demoralizing. What a time we live in
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Familiar_Fee_7891@reddit

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LieutBromhead@reddit

Why did Iran have these anyway???
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Ewenthel@reddit

Before the Shah was deposed in 1979, Iran was a US ally and we sold them to them.
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Familiar_Fee_7891@reddit

The pilots that flew those F-14A models from the Grumman factory to Iran told a helleva story about that delivery. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/how-iran-saved-grumman-and-the-f-14-program-and-the-story-of-the-training-of-the-first-tomcat-pilots-of-the-imperial-iranian-air-force/amp/
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0-_-_-_@reddit

You can see 9 tomcats (8 grey, 1 aggressor camo) on Google maps. They're spreadout on the northern part of the airport... sad
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Dolmetscher1987@reddit

I would have cried when doing it.
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ComprehensiveCup7104@reddit

That's why we asked Israeli Air Force to do it while playing "Danger Zone"
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davidfliesplanes@reddit

Iran has underground aircraft hangars and facilities, it's possible they've sheltered some of their last remaining potent aicraft in those.
View on Reddit #80175720

jisookenobi2416@reddit

Farewell soldier. o7
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modelvillager@reddit

Here is one on Google Maps at Isfahan Airport. Couple of others at various stands. [maps link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/hDLn1z3ZrtpS2Jsb6)
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KJpiano@reddit

At the airport. So they went down without a fight?
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StrikeEagle784@reddit

Well the last of the ones held by the regime, 20 minutes from my house there’s a museum holding two of them. Personally, this is a mercy kill. If I was an airplane being mistreated for like 40 years in the service of a regime like the one in Tehran, I probably wouldn’t want to fly anymore, either.
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Icy_Walrus_5035@reddit

F-14a with some su or mig engines at this point in their lives it basically a temu F-14
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GuitarKev@reddit

Wasn’t it just three days ago that they took credit for blowing up paintings of warplanes on the tarmac?
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BriefCollar4@reddit

Boooo!
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brandnewbanana@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/i65x3v4oxtng1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d9ce7716f5616f76e1ba77a64ab235f9bb07e04 I’m going to pour one out for the Tom Cats
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Luftgekuhlt_driver@reddit

Well, Skydance poached Israel’s Orsirak attack story, along with Bob Hoover so… Even.
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R08ue1701@reddit

Almost as if the war mongering arseholes in Washington and Israel are trying to get rid of their old stock to create demand for new ones from the military industrial complex... 🤔🤔
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kj_gamer2614@reddit

Yeah yeah fine it’s unfortunate, but I hate these posts. A plane is just a plane, there will be replicas or real frames in museums, and planes can be rebuilt. It should never be the important factor, the only thing that matters here is that thousands of lives are lost and hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives are impacted. In the grand scheme of it, who gives a shit about the planes, there are real human lives that are not replaceable at stake
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charleyhstl@reddit

Assholes
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