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Wir hatten ja kürzlich mal die Diskussion darüber über den Zustand und die Haltbarkeit iranischer F-14

Tom Cooper schreibt dazu:

Iranian F-14s are not exposed to stress of cat-launches and landings from/on carriers, nor to the salty sea-water. Their main base is actually in a quite dry semi-desert, and they are usually parked inside HASes with thick walls, which are very good in keeping them in shade, safe from the sun and sand. In fact, HASes at TFB.8 are so large, they are also good in having a very stabile temperature - which means that there is no condensation creating water around different parts of the airframe.

This means that the structure of IRIAF F-14s does not suffer the similar stress, nor are they as exposed to corrosion as USN Tomcats were. Iranian F-14s also have plenty of their avionics upgraded with solid-state elements (while all the USN's F-14As and F-14Bs hardly ever got anything similar).

Besides, six years back, the USN has completed a general inspection of all of its F-14s, concluding that they have - despite very intensive use, and many airframes having between 5.000 and 6.000 flying hours on them - reached only something like 50% of their useful life. And this, despite all the negative circumstances under which they usually operate.

Now, we do not know what is the number of flying hours an average IRIAF F-14 airframe has, but this is clearly pointing at how much life must still be left in them.

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