{"id":170725,"date":"2025-01-28T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iranian-air-force-retire-f-14a-tomcat-russian-su-35se-replacement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:01:15","slug":"iranian-air-force-will-finally-retire-its-f-14a-tomcats-russian-su-35se-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=170725","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Air Force Will Finally Retire Its F-14A Tomcats: Russian Su-35SE Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With reports that             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"22924\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iran\/\"  >Iran<\/a><\/span> may soon receive its first new             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> since the 1979 Revolution (apart from when much of the Iraqi Air Force fled to Iran to escape US-led destruction only to be absorbed as reparations). Russia is supplying perhaps 24 Su-35S Flankers to Iran and it is expected that when they arrive,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026402\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iran-f-14-tomcats-their-usage-today\/\" >Iran will finally retire its F-14 Tomcats<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/iranian-f-14-tomcat-encounter-at-an-airshow-unlike-any-other\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >The War Zone calls<\/a> the Su-35S an &#8220;obvious replacement&#8221; for the Tomcats, noting it represents a &#8220;generational leap&#8221; over the old F-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran seems poised to finally retire its worn-out F-14 Tomcats are the new Su-35 Flankers enter service.<\/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":[396,628,790,4087,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-iran","category-iran-sanctions","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170725","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=170725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170726,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170725\/revisions\/170726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}