{"id":48371,"date":"2022-08-25T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48371"},"modified":"2022-08-27T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:39:56","slug":"a-recreation-of-the-combats-in-which-mirage-f1-managed-to-shoot-down-f-14-tomcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/25\/a-recreation-of-the-combats-in-which-mirage-f1-managed-to-shoot-down-f-14-tomcats\/","title":{"rendered":"A recreation of the combats in which Mirage F1 managed to shoot down F-14 Tomcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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roof of this was what happened in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), when the Iranian Air Force had the opportunity to face its formidable fourth generation Gruman F-14 Tomcat fighters<\/strong>, manufactured in the USA and sold to that country before the Iranian revolution, with the oldest third-generation Dassault Mirage F1<\/strong>, made in France, used by the Iraqi Air Force.<\/p>\n

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The F-14 had two important advantages<\/strong> over the rest of the fighters of its time. In the first place was its powerful AN\/AWG-9 radar<\/strong>, capable of detecting up to 24 targets, following 18 of them and firing at 6 simultaneously. In second place was the long-range air-to-air missile AIM-54 Phoenix<\/strong>, capable of shooting down a target up to a distance of 190 km, reaching a speed of Mach 5 and guided by the aforementioned radar. Iran managed to shoot down 39 Iraqi planes during that war using this type of missile<\/strong> (the F-14 could carry up to six of them).<\/p>\n

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Although the Iraqi Mirage F1 were at a disadvantage against the F-14, the French-made fighters were able to take advantage of their tactics and the Matra Super 530F missiles<\/strong>, introduced in 1979 and which had a range of 25 km. To do this, the Iraqi pilots resorted to the so-called \"Giraffe\" tactic, which consisted of climbing to a high altitude and then activating their radars. In this way, during that war the Iraqi Mirage F1 managed to shoot down 4 Iranian F-14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, Showtime112<\/a> posted a video of making using the DCS World simulator recreating some of those combats in which the Mirage F1 managed to shoot down the F-14:<\/strong><\/p>\n