EagleSmack wrote:
You know, the new fighters are not neccesarily faster, or even as fast as some of the older craft. The F-4 Phantom still enjoys a speed and altitude/ceiling advantage over the F-18. It depends a lot on the pilots and how the aircraft are used. I don't know how they might do and neither do you. For all I know, they might fill the aircraft with explosives and fly them into American ships. Who knows. The new Russian aircraft are certainly in the same ballpark in performance and weapons. The new Russian Fencer is an impressive aircraft but they have to use them.
I would be surprised if any of the Iranian Aircraft would make it off the ground.
Fifty or 60 F-4 Phantoms. OK... those are Vietnam era planes and would not stand a chance. If every one of those planes got off the ground a carrier airwing would make quick work of them. It would be a Navy Pilot's DREAM. It would be like the F-4 Phantom going up against WWII aircraft. The same goes for the F-5.
The F-14's that they have were sold to them by the US before the Ayatollah Khomeni came into power. So that was the late 70's. I doubt many of them are operational if any of them are. If they are working they are 30 years behind the latest F-18's and F-14's.
Iraq had a nice airforce and all Iraq could do was try to get them to Iran so they would not be blown up on the ground. The Allies in Desert Storm had total air superiority from the start.
You know, the new fighters are not neccesarily faster, or even as fast as some of the older craft. The F-4 Phantom still enjoys a speed and altitude/ceiling advantage over the F-18. It depends a lot on the pilots and how the aircraft are used. I don't know how they might do and neither do you. For all I know, they might fill the aircraft with explosives and fly them into American ships. Who knows. The new Russian aircraft are certainly in the same ballpark in performance and weapons. The new Russian Fencer is an impressive aircraft but they have to use them.