Let's talk about Iranian F-14, page 4

reply to post by interestedalways

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The situation about the F-15's is currently being dissuced here in this same forum. You may find the information helpful as to understanding whats going on with the 15s
www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by SteveR

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Well any possible thing that you can control that may go to a goverment that you don't wan to have it should be controlled in a goverment mind set right? It announced that the decision was taken "given the current situation in Iran". I don't question why they did it but the question of would it of mattered if they did get their hands on the spares I'm not sure. The amount of spares that they could of got and the rate at which a airframe detireates aren't going to keep them in the air forever.

Well the life of the airframes question I got an answer.The original design airframe life for the F-14 was 6,000 hours, but was later extended to 7,200 hours. Now to get a idea the number of hours the IAF uses them in a year and when they rolled off the line.
www.fas.org...


[edit on 22/08/06 by Canada_EH]

reply to post by Canada_EH

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I suppose it depends if an F-14A could get a lock on an Super Hornet and shoot it down? Or deliver sunburns?

reply to post by SteveR

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Make sure you have seen my edit onto the post about your last Steve. My point now is how much life do the airframe have left. That can be the bigger issue to if they are even a threat. F-14 160377 was the last F-14 to roll of the line to go to the IIAF. Now it never made it to Iran due to the revolution but that was in 1978 so I assum around the sametime was when the last one went over. So now my research centers around the idea of how much the IIAf has used a plane per year and a bench mark would be how much the USN used up of a airframes life in a year.

www.centurychina.com...

reply to post by ShatteredSkies

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In the case of an air war - i think it can be assumed they wouldn`t worry about life left and just use them

reply to post by Harlequin

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They'll have to worry when they start losing more planes to simple airframe fatigue against enemy fire.

Shattered OUT...

Found a neat power point on corrosion affects on the USN fleet but it also has the average flight hours for the F-14 on it which in comparison to the F-15 is about 40 hrs less. The F-15 is around 270 hours and the F-14 is 231 hours a year.
link is here found on page 18 of 22.
www.sae.org...
(I may be wrong as this number 231 could refer to manhours of M/T work per flight.)
Can anyone confirm this? because it would make sence. The first F-14 entered service in 1972 and then was retired in 2004 at what I assume is the 7200 hr mark. 32 years at 225hrs a year would add up to the 7200 airframe life.

[edit on 22/08/06 by Canada_EH]

reply to post by Canada_EH

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The Iranian F14 is not naval. It doesn't operate in a corrosive environment. Perhaps the lifetime is more than we think.

reply to post by SteveR

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So then closer to the F-15's which isn't that much longer then the F-14's and then top it off with the possible inability to properly train aircrew on the airframe and the less and less training and the longer and longer they try and keep the aircraft in the air the less "likely" it is to be a true threat to any attacking force. Not saying the IIAF isn't a threat but the F-14's in that force are less likely for sure.

Again it does come back to the pilot but the pilot can only do what the gov/mil lets him do with the life that the plane has.

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