Iranians... You should go home

[Hound]

Looks like the F22 is getting to show its stuff:

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/20...hy-stunt-you-/

The U.S. Air Force has a message for Iran: Don't mess with our drones.

In what only can be described as a scene out of Tom Cruise's "Top Gun," Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, describes how F-22 stealth jets scared off Iranian jets from a U.S. drone flying in international airspace.

The Aviationist reports that in March a U.S. MQ-1 drone came close to being intercepted by an Iranian F-4 Phantom combat plane, but the Iranian aircraft stopped short after a warning by an American pilot.

"He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said 'you really ought to go home,'" Gen. Welsh said.

According to The Aviationist, the Iranians came within 16 miles of the drone.

[spqrzilla]

By now, Iranian F4 Phantoms probably sound like a ghetto Chevy Impala driving down the street on broken suspension springs and a space saver spare.

[speedysst]

Come on now, don't dis the Phantom. Its always been one of my favorite combat aircraft. I still remember building a model of one in my youth. Then I flew it off my parents deck.

[centrarchidae]

Come on now, don't dis the Phantom. Its always been one of my favorite combat aircraft. I still remember building a model of one in my youth. Then I flew it off my parents deck.

And the remaining Iranian spare parts supply probably also came out of a Testors box.

[thvigil11]

The F4 was great in its day, but was still the heaviest airframe for a fighter that the US ever fielded. Originally it was designed as a missle carrier, not a dogfighter.

[Irving]

Why hasn't Iran switched to the Toyota Tacoma by now?

[thvigil11]

Why hasn't Iran switched to the Toyota Tacoma by now?

In those parts of the world, its all about the Hilux

[ZERO THEORY]

Impressive, huh? Oh, wait.

[Hound]

The F4 was great in its day, but was still the heaviest airframe for a fighter that the US ever fielded. Originally it was designed as a missle carrier, not a dogfighter.

My recruiter for the Navy was an F4 mechanic. He put it as "The F4 is proof that with enough thrust a brick can be made to fly"

[SuperiorDG]

Read this story sometime back. This happened like a year ago.