What? Did anyone know this? Iranian F-14 shot down by special drones?

[Boresight]

I was astonished when I've read this morning (in Portugal), the following article, allegedly about the Iranian Air Force's F-14 being shot down by UFOs, probably some new kind of drone.

 

(Surprisingly, the article I've first read was at a generalist news site, not on a geostrategic one.) I'm almost speechless.

 

Might it be the F-22 operating discretely? (They're in the area, and already warned the IRIAF F-4s.)

 

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/b9bded1d2580

 

Anyone feel free to post your opinions.

 

[Caesar]

There is only one rational solution for this problem: the formation of X-COM!  I'm sure if the F-14's had been equipped with Plasma Beams or Fusion Ball launchers, the UFO's wouldn't stand a chance.  Unfortunately, busted AIM-54's ain't very good for shooting down UFOs...

 

[Boresight]

Hello Caesar,

 

It's true, in warfare, technological lag tends to be unforgiving for the weakest side.

But, what do you think might be happening? Was it F-22's work, or anything totally different?

Edited October 19, 2013 by Boresight

[+MigBuster]

I cant imagine any UFO being able to defeat the new AIM-54 copy they claim to build

 

 

 

 

Among the hardware on display during the annual military parade in Tehran, on Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, Iran not only displayed a new indigenous passive phased array radar system for detecting stealth targets and cruise missiles, but it also showed the country’s latest home-made missile productions, including the Fakour-90.

The Fakour-90 missile is one of the latest “state-of-the-art productions” of the Iranian Armed Forces which can be mounted on F-14 fighter jets.

It’s almost identical to the AIM-54 Phoenix and, more than a brand new missile, is just a domestically upgraded, partially reverse engineered version of the famous long range missile carried by the U.S. Navy Tomcat.

The AIM-54 was developed in the mid-sixties and the IRIAF has operated some of them. Even if we can’t talk of a “new missile”, we can’t but notice that the Iranians managed to keep them in service and, maybe, upgrade them a little bit. What’s even more surprising is that Tehran managed to keep the F-14s airworthy, considered the sanctions on Iran and the consequent lack of spare parts for the Tomcats.

The different component is hidden inside the missile’s nose cone and is (probably) a semi-active homing system of the Shalamcheh surface-to-air missile – once again a reverse engineered, improved version of the U.S. MIM-23 Hawk SAM.

 

 

http://theaviationist.com/2013/09/26/farouk-missile/

[Caesar]

Hello Caesar,

 

It's true, in warfare, technological lag tends to be unforgiving for the weakest side.

But, what do you think might be happening? Was it F-22's work, or anything totally different?

 

I haven't got a clue.  The thing is, those aircraft may be "airworthy" or the one which blew up may have been one of the "better airframes" of those available, but there is no denying that the Tomcat arsenal of Iran is heavily aged.  I think just about everybody has seen the footage of the F-14 that blew up near the USS John Paul Jones during a high-speed flyby.  Considering this was a USN bird which had the technological and maintenance support which the IRIAF birds did not, but it still blew up because God knows why, the fact that an IRIAF one either caught fire, blew up or had some failure which caused a detonation shouldn't be considered the work of otherworldly or even political forces.  

 

I still think this would be a good excuse to initiate the Extraterrestrial Combat force!

[+Typhoid]

assuming the plane didn't simply crash for any number of reasons, then some other "interesting" possibilities come to mind........