{"id":103681,"date":"2024-08-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iranian-air-force-eclectic-mix-dated-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:00:12","slug":"the-iranian-air-force-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-or-an-eclectic-mix-of-dated-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=103681","title":{"rendered":"The Iranian Air Force: A Force To Be Reckoned With Or An Eclectic Mix Of Dated Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In 2010, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/readingroom\/docs\/CIA-RDP83B00232R000100120001-9.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >CIA declassified a document<\/a> produced in 1982 stating that the Iranian Air Force was a diminishing threat. At the time, the Iranian Air Force was armed with some of the US&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jets<\/a> &#8211; the F-14 Tomcats (as well as F-4 Phantom IIs and Northrop F-5s). Over 40 years later, how does the Iranian Air Force stack up? <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iran-f-14-tomcats-their-usage-today\/\">Iran is known to at least have some F-14 Tomcats flying<\/a>, but how many is almost anyone&#8217;s guess.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Iran&#8217;s new Su-35s arrive, it is left with a few dozen out of date or obsolete operational fighter jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7867,628,567,790],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-14","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103682,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681\/revisions\/103682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}