Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat

Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat

by Tom CooperFarzad Bishop and Mr Chris Davey
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/11/2012

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This book looks at the F-14's Iranian combat history and includes first hand accounts from the pilots themselves.


So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq war, they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses were tiny; only one F-14 was lost in aerial combat (to a MiG-21), one to a control problem and one downed by a ground-to-air missile.


Alongside stunning illustration, the authors consider key engagements and the central figures involved, illustrating the realities, successes and failures of the Iranian air campaign.

ISBN:
9781782007098
9781782007098
Category:
Military aircraft
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-11-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Tom Cooper

Tom Cooper is an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian. Following a career in worldwide transportation business - during which he established a network of contacts in the Middle East and Africa - he moved into narrow-focus analysis and writing on small, little-known air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives.

This has resulted in specialisation in such Middle Eastern air forces as of those of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, plus various African and Asian air forces.

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