Why Iran Flies the F-14 Tomcat
The F-14 Tomcat is perhaps the greatest American jet fighter of all time, being operated by the US Navy from 1974 until 2006. Only one other country ever operated the Tomcat, but not only does this nation still fly F-14s, but they are an enemy of the United States. This is the story of Iran’s F-14 Tomcats.
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(Also please note that all the video footage is of American and not Iranian F-14s, even when I’m discussing Iran’s F-14s. This is simply because finding footage that I can use in a video of an F-14 is hard enough, and footage of Iranian Tomcats are hard to come by, so please excuse the lack of accurate footage.)
Attributions:
Music (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):
Music by Kevin MacLeod:
“Jet Fueled Vixen”
“Industrial Cinematic”
“Intended Force”
“Constance”
“Invariance”
“Myst on the Moor”
“Royal Coupling”
Video Footage:
Robert Scoble (Robert Scoble), CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
RUNWAY FUN Aviation & Military & plus, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ndecam, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
emam.com, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Grumman F-14 Tomcat Amazing Sounds Compilation – Part One”
by LittleRock Aviation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCaOUgGtwbE&t=5s
“VF 31 Cruise Video 2006 Triple Tomcat Launch”
by okisoba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KOLsmhzbQ
“F-14 BEST FOOTAGE OLD BUT GOOD”
by Aviation Technology Space Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLySQ-T5Q_U&t=126s
Images:
Shahram Sharifi (GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html or GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons
“Paper Texture” Image by bedneyimages on Freepik
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