Chapter 688 (2/2)
F-14 fighter is a supersonic multi-purpose carrier based fighter of the United States. It was developed by the American Grumman company at the end of 1967. The prototype flew for the first time on December 21, 1970 and was delivered for use in May 1972.
The F-14 fighter is a two seater, double engine, double vertical tail and variable swept back single wing layout. It is to be developed according to the requirements of fleet air defense and escort of the U.S. Navy from the 1970s to the 1980s. It belongs to the third generation fighter for generations, mainly performing fleet defense, interception, strike, reconnaissance and other tasks.
In the 1970s, Iran was not only one of the main oil producing areas in the Middle East, but also the most important ally of the United States in the Middle East. Iranian King Pahlavi is politically Pro western and buys a large number of us and British equipment in military, which is far more important to the West than Saudi Arabia today.
In July 1973, Iran proposed to hold a comparative flight show at Andrews Air Force base. Pahlavi will observe it on site and then make a decision. Pahlavi himself is a pilot, not just a spectator. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 is piloted by IRV burrows, a McDonnell Douglas test pilot. The Grumman F-14 was piloted by Don Evans and Dennis Romano, two of Grumman's test pilots. Each flight performance shall not exceed 30 minutes, and the F-15 shall fly first.
It is an open secret that the thrust weight ratio of F-15 is higher than that of F-14. While the F-15 was still running on the taxiway, don Evans and Dennis Romano started the engine in advance in the standby area, where they burned fuel. When the F-15 was flying in the sky, the F-14 quietly reduced the fuel in the engine to only 2500 pounds on the ground, only 15% of the normal fuel in the engine, which was only enough for the 30 minute performance in the sky, but this basically flattened the difference in thrust weight ratio.
When the thrust weight ratio is equal, the maneuverability of F-14 is better than that of F-15. The F-14 pilot won full applause with slight cheating.
At the end of the flight performance, the excited Pahlavi directly ignored the F-15 and went straight to the F-14. He had a warm conversation with the two test pilots. They didn't even have time to climb out of the cockpit. Pahlavi selected the F-14 and ordered 80 F-14 at one go, which saved Grumman and the U.S. Navy's F-14 program.
In order to protect the project, the U.S. Navy did not hesitate to make way for the Iranian F-14. The Iranian F-14 and the U.S. Navy F-14 were delivered at the same time, and this is not a monkey version, but the same standard as the U.S. Navy. When Iran's * * * revolution broke out, 79 aircraft had been delivered, and the last one was not delivered because of the embargo.
It can be said as like as two peas in the US Navy, the Iran air force male cat fighter plane is only an internal secret avionics system, but the ability to shoot an undead missile is the same. More than 700 undead missiles were ordered, but only 284 actually arrived.
After so many years of training losses, coupled with the consumption of the Iran Iraq war. What is more irritating is that the Americans directly cut off the supply of parts, so that Iranians can only disassemble parts and put them together on the plane. At this time, there are so many planes that can go to heaven, which is an absolute treasure in the hearts of Iranians.
At present, in order to recover the unfavorable situation of the war, Iran is ready to take a big action. However, other aircraft do not have much advantage in fighting Iraq, so they can only place their hopes on the F-14 panda. Iran's front-line airport does not have the ability to maintain and maintain panda fighters, which requires all flying F-14 panda fighters to fly back to dusentape Air Force Base in Tehran for unified maintenance and maintenance.
Iranians did not put panda fighter into hangar for convenience, as long as Iraqi aircraft took off. The radar will catch the target at the first time. They can take off directly to meet the enemy.
Panda fighter was originally designed to be equipped on aircraft carriers, so its short-range takeoff and landing performance is very superior. That's why Iranians dare to put their fighters outside. They don't believe that Iraqis can fly to Tehran.
In fact, there are weather reasons. At this time, the temperature in Tehran is very high. If the maintenance is carried out in the hangar, it is a great challenge for engineers and technicians. The internal temperature of the hangar is too high; Not every national hangar is built according to American standards.
It's no coincidence. If you know that the Iraqis will send stealth bombers tonight. The Iranians will never put the plane in the hangar for convenience.
Arrogance is often very harmful, but it also teaches the world a lesson; But this time they appeared in the negative textbook.