Best Trained Air Force Pilots

The IRIAF had a kill ratio of 5:1 during the Imposed War, and this was when we faced an arms embargo and an international Ba'thist tilt.

You guys had our F-14s.

BrotherofSnake said:

You guys had our F-14s.

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Wow. Now you consider F-14s to be "ours."
But F-14s do suck, and why is Iran in the top 5? And why is Pakistan in the top 5? Both Pakistan and Iran have no place being in the top 5, let alone being #1.

BrotherofSnake said:

You guys had our F-14s.

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Well, seeing that if not for the Shah's funding, the Tomcat project would have been dumped and Grumman would have gone bankrupt, your claim to the F-14 must be contested.

Also, your guys sabotaged many of them after the revolution, yet, we are still the only country to score a kill with the Phoenix missile.

American Tomcat pilots have fired Phoenix missiles at fleeing Iraqi aircraft. The Iraqis ended up burning out their engines and ejecting trying to out-run the phoenix.

Issa said:

Well, seeing that if not for the Shah's funding, the Tomcat project would have been dumped and Grumman would have gone bankrupt, your claim to the F-14 must be contested.

Also, your guys sabotaged many of them after the revolution, yet, we are still the only country to score a kill with the Phoenix missile.

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Back then Iran must've been a great rich country. Not the poor dry desert they are now. They still have a ton of oil reserves though, don't they?

Back then Iran was friendly.

FriedRiceNSpice said:

Back then Iran must've been a great rich country. Not the poor dry desert they are now. They still have a ton of oil reserves though, don't they?

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Rich? The royal family, perhaps.

The climate of our country is not related in any way to our economy. We were never a "desert country," and we never will be.

We have plenty of oil reserves. But our industrial growth in this past year was 8.1%. We are diversifying quickly, and we will surely become an industrial power before we go dry.

Of course anyone who is American does not hate America. America treats Americans well. Iran is one of the unfortunate nations who had to live under oppressive U.S. rule.

Here is a list of acts of aggression committed by the United States against Iran during the war:

April 25, Failed Rescue attempt at Tabas. 5 Choppers captured 13 dead.

May-June 1980 Provocations by formenting trouble in Khuzestan and Sanandaj areas.

July 1980-1989 full elint and hunint intelligence sharing.

Formation of GCC losers.

Providing loan guarantees to Iraq, including $2 Billion sales of chemicals and helicopters under the "Agriculture" assistance program.

4 Awacs positioned at Dharan and Tabuk. On paper sold the Saudis 4 more AWACS and 80 F-15's. In reality the Saudis had a hard time flying a kite.

Transfet of ammo from Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians.

Encouraging Israel to sell faulty spares at gouging prices.

Encouraging, arranging financing and delivery of chemicals and European weapons to the spiderhole Saddam.

1984 US flown F-15's in Saudi marking shoot down an out of fuel and out of ammo F-4E coming home to Bushehr in international waters.

Arranging $50 billion "GCC" grants to Iraq. This later caused the idiot to invade Kuwait.

1988:

1988 US cowards warship Vincennes deliberately shoot down Iranian airliner to weaken Iranian morale and cause civilan disturbances in Iran against thewar.

1986-89 Reflagging of Kuwaiti and Saudi tankers; "Preying Mantis," attack on oil platforms.

The Vincennes attacked Iran Air Flight 655 because they thought it was a hostile F-14. Operation Praying Mantis was a just cause, it was in retaliation for the Iranian mining of an American warship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts. Anyways, we payed Iran 61.8 million in compensation for that airliner.