Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucsd!ames!pacbell!att!cbnews!military From: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Israel and F-14 Message-ID: <7739@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Jun 89 03:45:04 GMT References: <7584@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Dave Goldblatt In article <7584@cbnews.ATT.COM> amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) writes: > I have asked around, and got one rumour saying that Israel DID get a "small" >number of F-14 (certainly less than 8, probably ~5). What are they used for, >I have no idea. The only F-14 aircraft sold to anyone other than the Navy and the Marines is Iran, which purchased 83 (I think. It might have been 84.) of them. Too bad, since the F-14 would have probably done a nice job for them; it was good enough for the USAF, except the Pentagon (USAF brass?) didn't want thr Air Force to buy another Navy plane.. Then again, look what happened to the F-20... Interesting note: The DoD is now going to resume paying part of the development costs for new programs, as opposed to the current "out-of-pocket" system they've had for a six or seven years now.. As of a few years ago one of the last Iranian F-14s was still out at Grumman's Calverton complex -- with the full Iranian Air Force paint job. Wonder if the Navy finally just commandeered it for themselves? :-) (of course, this was a number of years ago, so I doubt it still in mothballs; after all, it was already paid for!) -dg- -- Internet: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu or: dave@clutx.clarkson.edu BITNET: dave@CLUTX.Bitnet uucp: {rpics, gould}!clutx!dave Matrix: Dave Goldblatt @ 1:260/360 ICBM: 75 02 00W 44 38 12N