So there is a slim possibility that there may be a Tomcat or two still hidden away somewhere in Iran. How would /k/ rescue her and bring her home?

>>63887216 (OP)
She's been getting molested by the dirty Persians for 40 years, anon. A mercy kill is the best option. Let her rest.

>>63887252
She deserves to land on one last carrier, preferably after splashing one more MiG!

>>63887216 (OP)
We don't because Iran lost. Let them send their last little missile to save face and then let's make them sign a humiliating peace treaty.

>>63887216 (OP)
>>63887252
>>63887259
If anything, them being destroyed allows the potential restoration to flight status of the very few ones in AMARG/in museums. That titanium wing spar ain't exactly the most complex part to reproduce.

>>63887297
I hope but the only way fear will ever see them fly again is building a time machine and going back in time. F-14's used to be very popular with women at airshows whenever they did flybys.

>>63887297
That’s what I’m hoping for.
That once it’s confirmed that Iran is Tomcatless and/or regime change, that the museums “coincidentally” happen to stumble on a cache of spares to bring existing ones to life.

And then Northrop “accidentally” uncovers files and tooling to restart production and upgrade them to F-14E or whatever.

>>63887307
Tom Cruise has money. And there is at least one known case of an Anon's mom being fucked by a Tomcat.

>>63887333
Tom Cruise would DEFINITELY use those Scientology bucks to buy a flyable F-14.

>>63887329
>Tomcat-E
That's SuperArrow levels of hopium. I'd take an A++ (because the original computers would need to be replaced with a Raspi and Arduinos).

>>63887329
>F-14 Block III upgrade randomly appears once confirmed Iran no longer has any Tomcats
I want this to happen.
>>63887333
Yeah but I don't think Tomcats support booster seats?

>>63887348
> That's SuperArrow levels of hopium
Shut up! It could totally happen! It WILL totally happen!

The AIM-174 is basically what the Phoenix wishes it was. Also, carrier air wings could use an actual strike aircraft since they got rid of the A-6. And no, Super Whorenets aren’t good enough.

You'd fly her back only for the nigger navy to shred her to pieces.

>>63887351
5'7" is a pretty realistic height for a fighter pilot.

>>63887351
This is secretly the reason they've been thinking about cancelling the Navy NGAD
6th gen LO Tomcats

>>63887333
>And there is at least one known case of an Anon's mom being fucked by a Tomcat.
explain

>>63887216 (OP)
>overthrow Iran's government
>approach new pro-Western government and politely ask if they could donate one of their remaining airworthy Tomcats to the Confederate Air Force as a goodwill gesture

>>63889235
Some old greentext, where anon recounts going to an airshow with his parents. During a flyby of some tomcats, the rumbling/shaking gives anons mom an orgasm.

Anons mom was fucked by a tomcat.

>>63889252
>Confederate Air Force
Didn't they go woke and drop that name for Commemorative Air Force?

>>63887280
>nonsensical shillposting
back to /pol/

>>63887851
>5'7"
He's barely 5'2"
>>63889252
>Reinstate the Shah
>Anons all get personal F-14's as rewards

This thread also needs more Tomcats

>>63887216 (OP)
Damn I was hoping it could fly side by side with Su-35 if only for fanboy's sake

>>63887280
Hey could you keep to your dedicated threads approved by the Israeli ministry of Diaspora affairs for posting IDF approved AI generated content? I understand that you are a natural parasite and this is somewhat akin to asking a cockroach nicely to leave the house but if you could try your best.

...you're gonna call me brown, aren't you?

>>63887216 (OP)
>How would /k/ rescue her and bring her home?
Well uh. I would certainly do something to her that starts with the letter “r” but it wouldn’t be rescue

>>63887216 (OP)
The only two confirmed destroyed had not moved from their spot on the tarmac in more than a year, there isn't any reports of others being splashed, and the hardened hangers that got hit supposedly held F-4s, not Tomcats. Probably a couple got wasted but very unlikely all or even most of them.

>>63887297
There is exactly 1 at AMARG that is in a possible return to flight status.

>>63887307
Yeah the Tomcat demonstration team fucking mogged the shit out of the Blue Angels at all the airshows I went to growing up. It was kind of amusing. They would wait till one of the proceeding acts was kind of wrapping up and then do this 200' AGL flyby from behind the stands at like 600 knots and full reheat. It was extremely based and loud.

>>63887329
It would be a lot more reasonable to just hope the FA-XX doesn't get canceled so we can give the Air Farce even more gibs and it turns out to be the correct choice, ie a Mach 3.5+ heavy interceptor with the RCS of the titanic but moving so fucking fast you kinematically cannot shoot it down. Son of Tomcat has the potential to be extremely badass and end this gay and retarded LO era.

Why was Iran the only country that got F14s from us? Its an odd choice seeing as how they never even had aircraft carriers and our closer, longer standing allies never got any.

>>63891359
The Navy and Grumman lobbied for it super hard. The Tomcat cost more than a quarter of a billion dollars per copy in today's money and was bankrupting NAVAIR to the point that they were going to have to shut the line down and greatly reduce the total buy. Iran's purchase lowered the overall cost and allowed the Tomcat to continue production and service for several decades. If you go to Oceana or Miramar there are zappers from Tomcat squadrons literally thanking the Shah lol.

It would be like if we had allowed Britain or Japan or somebody to buy the F-22 so we could keep making them. Same kind of situation, where the USG was nervous because the F-14 was so advanced but the USN argued if the Iranians didn't get them, we wouldn't have them much longer anyway. Which was a big fucking problem in the Reforger era.

>>63891393
But why Iran specifically and not like Japan or one of the euros? Were they too broke or was Iran the only one asking/only one we wanted to curry favor to?

>>63887252
>>63887329
>>63891358
Lovecraftian horror worse case scenario: Now that Iran only has a few and they are no longer useful they do something they have been resisting for half a century; The 2-3 survivors get sent to Pyongyang for reverse engineering.

>>63891427
Europe was more focused on lightweight fighters since they were very close to the line of contact and didn't really have the operational depth theoretically to use the F-14 in the way it was intended. It was really designed from the ground up to be a Tu-22 / Tu-95 killer before they got to missile release and that just wasn't a huge priority for them.

Japan also didn't really face a big threat from long range aviation and to the extent they did, they had F-14s based at Atsugi anyway so it was kind of a moot point.

Iraq had a pretty strong strategic bombers force so Iran opted for the F-14 as weirdly they had were facing the same kind of threat profile as CSGs. Iran at that time was also concerned about possible Soviet intervention and so faced Russian long range aviation as well, but not so much Russian tactical aviation. So just kind of a weird set of circumstances that coincidentally led to the F-14 being good for them and not really that useful given the cost for anyone else besides the USN.

>>63891393
>>63891459
Thanks anon

>>63887216 (OP)
There were no confirmed Tomcat kills during the war, the entire Iranian airforce fled to eastern mountain bunkers when the war kicked off. The planes Israel "destroyed" were desiccated airframes that had been sitting outside for years.

The only way you're getting those Tomcats back is as a gift for nuking Tel Aviv.

>>63887297
Tomcat was an expensive hanger queen when it was still in service and imagine how difficult it would be to restore one to flying condition after we shredded our stockpile to appease God's Chosen. Everyone who worked on it is either dead or senile.

The only way you're restoring a Tomcat is to unironically ask the Iranians how they keep em flying and buy parts from them.

>>63891359
Most of our allies had to defend their spending decisions in parliament. Besides the Shah had oil money.

>>63887216 (OP)
Saddam buried a bunch of jets in the desert because he thought he'd be able to uncover them and use them later in the war (lmao)
Maybe Iran did the same?

>>63891359
>>63891459
>>63891393
The real reason was AWG-9 radar. Due to Iran's mountainous geography ground radar wasn't going to work very well for them. So they opted for an airborne radar system with a powerful radar and the fact that the F-14 could not only do that but also defend itself and carry out offensive missions sealed the deal.

>>63892192
>Buried jets
Or perhaps he was just making a sacrifice to the plane gods?

>>63887216 (OP)
Why do you gender a beautiful machine, as if being human were better than a work of engineering and manufacturing art compared to which a meathole is trash?

>>63887307
So PRETEND. You have a computer and would never have flown or worked on one anyway.

>>63893604
It's stupid not to shred those under supervision. Burial is throwing away a fuckton of money in scrap.

>>63897215
There was some retarded reason they couldn't scrap it. Can't remember exactly what it was but knew it was dumb.

THE F14 WAS A JOINT IRANIAN/US BUILT JET
WITHOUT IRAN THE F14 WOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED
F14 WAS A PET PROJECT OF IRAN, THAT THE US HELPED PUSH THROUGH
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER

>>63898254
They were covered in asbestos composite patches

>>63891491
Hauptmann sucks