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The killing blow came when the F-14s guided Air Force F-15Es as they dropped 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to wipe out the underground bunker.

US aviation history is littered with highly capable fighter jets that the military ultimately didn't buy.

With its long range and powerful radar, the F-14 remains one of the world’s most capable fighters.

The F-14 Tomcat proved itself to be one of the great American fighters of its era—in the hands of both the U.S. Navy and the Iranian Air Force.

During the Iran-Iraq War, F-14s reportedly downed more than 160 Iraqi planes.

And using American-made jets.

Iran has reported sightings of American drones in its backyard. But some aspects of its story don't add up. 

The Tomcat is one of the U.S. fighters that has seen the most sustained and intense air-to-air combat of its generation.

But what if the problems that plagued the program in the 1960s and 1970s had proved insoluble? How would the Navy have filled the gap?

Though influenced by the F-5, the prototype is a different airplane and is much shorter. Heres What You Need to Remember: The irony is that Tehran doesn’t need to be ashamed of its resourceful use of old jet fighters. In the nine-year-long Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s, Iranian fighter pilots fought one of the most intense air wars in recent history defending their home soil. In February 2017 I published an article on the Iranian Saeqeh (“Thunderbolt”) fighter. Billed as Iran’s first ...