I love the way they use a 10 day-old photo from an air display.
Wow, they're still flying F-4 Phantoms? Jeez those things must be falling apart by now.
Ole Timer wrote:
Wow, they're still flying F-4 Phantoms? Jeez those things must be falling apart by now.
that caught my eye too - they have 64 F4s from the mid 1960s
more impressive is Iran's F14 fleet - 44 of em from the mid 70s. those could hurt badly.
and some russian mig 29s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_the_Iranian_Air_Forceso interesting to see cold war history in planes in air forces - pakistan must have a million headaches with planes from china, us, france, europe....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_the_Pakistan_Air_Force#Combat_aircraftI had heard they'd heavily cannibalized the F-14s because we refused to sell them spare parts. AFAIK Iran was the only other country that got them, and they're the F-14A models. Don't know how many are still flying. With the F-4, there were a lot more other countries that had them, probably easier to get spare parts via some other place.