"Tarver Engineering" wrote:

"Ragnar" wrote in message
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"Hobo" wrote in message
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Some people here have been claiming that
the Iranians made effective and
widespread use of the Phoenix missle against
Iraq. I have always read
that after the Shah fell US civilian technicians
altered the F-14s they
were servicing so that they could never
fire the Phoenix. If the
Iranians *did* use the Phoenix, how did
they overcome the sabotage?

They had the maintenance manuals, US-trained
technicians, spare parts, and
time.

They made a homebuilt Phoenix. I went to school
with Iranian engineering
students at CSUF, they have the skill.


Not to mention clandestine US assistance in the early 1980s, plus shipments
of -54A missiles when the USN went to the -54C. It appears that they have
reverse-engineered the -54A and build an unliscensed version of Phoenix.


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