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It's rarely a question of who is flying the "better" aircraft, but rather of being in the right place at the right time and knowing how to exploit the opportunity.

Maverick was rather lucky he faced an SU-57 and not an F-1

According to "Iraqi Mirages in Combat" by M. Garcia five IRIAF F-14As were shot down by Iraqi Mirages between 1981-1988. Great use of DCS to narrate military aviation history! Keep up the good work Showtime!

This is what I've been looking for some years. An interesting data of France made fighters againts US made. The point is no matter how sophisticated your equipment is, it is still can be outrun by smart and best prepared tactics.

And this is why you need AWACS. Notice Iraq had first hand knowledge of this tactic, but did not use it successfully in either gulf war. A friend of mine told the Iranians were using the Tomcats as a form improvised AWACs.

As an Iraqi I want to say amazing video! Even though wars are brutal they are interesting and nice to learn about. The Mirage F1 is one of my favourite jets and this video about it paired with the fact its about the history of my country is awesome.

Amazing video and thanks for the great content. It is good to see the F1 in action.

I heard somewhere that one of the bigger problems iranian Tomcats had initially was that their RWR could not recognise the French radar signals as threats, so they could actually be snuck up to, locked on and hit... but that was later somehow fixed...

Beautiful recreation of the Iranian F-14 Tomcats. A nice narration and recreation of an interesting & overlooked war. The F-5 Tiger 🐯 looks really good too!!

This was sensational pacing and editing. Thank you!

Once more showing that there is more to fighter aviation history than Top Gun mock ups and dogfight videos. Thanks a lot Showtime, I am sure it takes lots of time to: research the combats and history, learn how to fly these steel beasts in DCS, record and edit the video. Lovely content as usual and very inspiring (I am a minis player and have re-enacted several combats thanks to your info). Keep it up!

These ocasions were at the beginning of handling the Mirage-F1s to Iraq. They were unknown. later on F14s shot down a Mirage F1 and captured its pilot. By using his information, they shot down F1s one by one and later till the end of the war, nobody was ever directly engaged with F14s

Fantastic video! You always outdo yourself :)

Hvala ti na objektivnosti, zaista imas lep naglasak engleskog i jako lep glas, puno srece i uspeha ti zelim u buducnosti i da dobijesjos vise subscribera, you are the best

Iranian tomcats shot down around 30 mirage F1s loosing 2-4 tomcats in the process

Wonderful video and nice footage, I love Mirage. 😍 Greetings from Iraq :)

Another exceptional work!! We have temporarily lagged behind, but will catch up soon 😁😁

Oh yes, this is what I've been waiting for! Good work as always. I always learn a lot.

Great video and thank for making this I remember that day F14 was damaged and land in Boucher airport

This is the best video I've seen so far👌

Great video.

Very interesting and well done video. 🤩

Well done! I didn't know anything about the aerial combat of that war.

Great imaging of the event!

تحية لصقور العراق

Who would have thought that the F14 would have such a weakness to giraffes.

My compliments ! I always wait for your videos with impatience. May I dare a suggestion for new videos ? I was thinking to the war in Libya of 2011. Ok, no aerial duels ... but the re could be, I suppose, ground attacks or CAS missions of interest to be re-enacted by you. What do you think ?

I remember once..F15 was paced against the Atlas Cheetah C here in South Africa,guess what was the outcome ! I could not believe it..enjoying your program

Thanks!

Outstanding

Instead, 28 Mirage F-1s were shot down by Iranian F-14s

Love it 👍

Hope to see more Iran Iraq reenactments. This was a very interesting air war. Both countries were huge and the defense of oil infrastructure was a key objective. Plus shipping lanes, airfields, cities, and front line troops, fighters were spread thin. Did the Iranians run low on Sparrows too? I hope we get a Foxbat module to complete the theater. And a Cobra too of course, Iranians used them well. With the Phantom, will you be able to depict the H3 raid? Lots of refueling over Turkey at 200 feet 😀.

The day of glory for the IrAF and F-1 was July 19 1988, the last day of the war, two F-14 and one F-4 were shot down by Mirage F-1 with the new Super 530D missiles, a pre-production batch was send by France. On the other side in February 9 1988 the F-14 of Lt Qiyassi shot down 3 Mirage F-1 in one day over the Gulf. All this come from Tom Cooper´s books.

It's insane that these persian cats are still maintained by the Iranian air force because there are no more parts for upgrade.

Bravo.Have you any air battle video between Iraqui Mig 29 vs Iranian F14 ? Tanks so much

What a nice video. How did make to have the S530D on the mirage? I just have the R530 who's not really a medium range missile.

Bravo

During the war I witnessed a very low-flying one swiftly traverse the sky as we were on the road towards the south. Remarkable speed, disappearing from view within seconds. Eventually radio broadcast informed us that it had been downed. Possibly the F1 was returning from a bombing run over Tehran.

you should consider doing a video on the massive Battle of El mansoura over egypt during the October 1973 war....Egyptian MiG pilots appear to have toughened up remarkably and losses on both sides appear equal if both sides are honest....one Egyptian pilot, Mohhammed adoub blew a A-4 apart with 30 mm cannon at close range and flew through the debris field and went down himself.......The egyptian air force celebrates this defensive victory to this day

Hello mate. 8:32 shows à F1EQ6 Livery for ship attack. Nécessary for maritime area. Registration start by 46XX. Excellent vidéo

Really illustrates the air combat chessgame well

Later please made a second part of this video with the Iraqi MiG-23MLA, which also was a Tomcat Killer (no les than 3 times they shot down Iranian F-14s)

Cool stuff! 👍🏻😎 How do you like F1 so far?

mirage F1's Super 530F is just super!

plane in DCS: gets hit by missile. the wings: "ima leaving now."

I saw another video which showed the Iranian pilots were very inventive and became aces. Iran had lost American support for their planes so the Iranians were still able to overcome Iraqis with hobbled airplanes.

Could you do a video on French f1 operations against the Libyan aircraft in the Toyota war?

My wish come true!!!!!

Its not the plane, its the pilot

Let's be honest though considered a mid gen 3, the f1 was just a early generation 4 fighter. Any nation that flew it loved its ability to dog fight, though it always found lacking in over the horizon engagements.

Excellent presentation of these aerial conflicts of a forgetten conflict. Well done!🎩♠️🇺🇲🏁🎯🎱🇺🇦🔱🌻💮🌼🌸🍀🔫

Ther are more combate sorties wer they Alicat participate, can You make an other video of this theme?

6:39 Did that double hit by the Super 530Fs actually happen? Or is it just for the recreation? I had no idea the F1s actually scored kills on Tomcats, amazing video!

In 1970's & 80's some iraqi pilots were trained by indian air force

Where was at 5e Escadre de Chasse working on F1C -200, i have had opportunity by a pilot to watch during débriefing HUD vidéo dogfights between French F1C and USN F14A above Méditerranée Sea. It's easy for F1 with good pilot to turn into F14 radius of turn ,of course with thé help of many G,s🤢 F1 was with no external tanks . If you succeed to jam his radar or coming from a blind corner.... Meanwhile in this case ..bursts of 30mm guns are compulsary. Too Close for missile lauch. Many years After Mirage 2000C -RDI did it.... better. Good vidéo mate

WTF?I myself am Iranian, and I must say that Iran does not have more than 79 F14s, then the code of this fighter is 80?.. Just how many of these 79 fighters have been shot down and how many have also crashed.

I posted a week ago a comment on this video that contains very important information that no one knows about....but unfortunately the comment has been deleted???? May I know why???

It is in a real war that we see what weapons are made of. Without a doubt, it was clear how vulnerable the F-14 became without all the support structure it had in the US Navy. And what was true for it would be true for the F-15, the F-16 and the F-18 in similar situations.

Do you intend to make a video of Iranian f-14 in action

You don't understand that in the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian F-14s shot down most of the Iraqi Mirages

در زمان جنگ کشور من با عراق ما خلبان هایی تامکتی داشتیم و هنوز هم داریم که بدون شلیک یک گلوله سه تا میراژ اف یک رو سرنگون کرده اند با مانور های عالی و رد کردن تمام موشک ها تا وقتی که سوخت میراژ ها به پایان رسید و سقوط کردند

According to " Iraqi Mirages In Combat: The story of the F.1EQ in Iraq " By Miquel Garcia , 6 Tomcats were lost to the favour of the F1's , Iran had lost 14 tomcats during the war ( Source : Iranian Video talking about these pilots with their names and photographs )

30 mirage irag lose to 4 f14 Iran lose is noting. F14 that time was very dangers with. Aim54 Phoenix. And radar.

An F-14 shot down a MiG-23 with a Phoenix missile? The missile probably cost more than the MiG-23 and about 2x the cost of the SU-22.

Imagine if the Argentinians had been equiped with modern Mirage F1s instead of vintage Mirage IIIs during the Falkland War.

Da li je f1 mirage imao u stvari bolje fox 1 rakete nego mig 25?

Iranian F14s did not carry AIM7 Sparrows.

The MiG 23 was the wildebeest of fighter aircraft, just a source of protein for predators.

Yes but will be good to say irainian tomkats how many aircraf of iraqi shood down? 250?

I see the Mirage has orange,white and blue flag on its tail

This video ignores few facts: 1) Iranian pilots were saving their phoenix missiles and would only fire them as last resort due to sanctions and lack of spare parts. 2) pretty much all the NATO nations including Russia were supplying Iraq with weapons and Iran was on its own 3) Given all the odds stacked against Iran with lack of spare parts or inability to purchase any weapons, Iran did a fantastic job destroying Iraqi air bases and having air superiority. Let's not forget that this was a war between Iran and NATO and Russia. Iraqis had access to satellites, American support, and intelligence, including America's support in jamming Iranian radars. This by no means was just an Iran vs. Iraq war.

IRAN HAD F-14As AND THOSE WERE F-14Bs WITH THE CAMERA UNDER THE NOSE AND HAD TWO DROP TANKS AND A TAIL HOOK, THEIRS DIDN'T HAVE THEM.

Not the plane it's the pilot how many mirage F-1's were downed in the first gulf war by F-15's?

Iran only lost 3 f14

82ND AIRBORNE Iran...getting Cocky!! EJECT!! EJECT!!

They didn’t have any BVR capability at that moment

So we’ve got a load of cgi and ur say so I’m sceptical

how many mirage kill by f14? 😊😊😊

Ok.

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Whom was flying the f14 not good measure of a tomcat it was made as tool for E2C Hawkeye intercepter at 100 miles . The other plane would never see it!

Iranian F14s shoted down 160 Iraqi fighters during the war! and Iran lost only 8 f14s !

Those were not American pilots flying those Tomcats, and the Tomcats were not carrying Phoenix or Ratheon Sidewinder missiles, in that scenario the Mirage F1s would have been toast.

Minus US Navy crews. Different result

if at this time rusia was exist like at syiria, may be iraq not lose under attack OTAN and US

But the Iraqis didn't shoot down any US F14's during Desert Storm. It's almost like pilot capability came into play. Hmm...

The Iraqi Air Force had the air superiority over Iranian air force since the first day of the war. Iran entered the war with Iraq with about 20 F-14s, most of which had invalid combat capabilities, and for this reason, most of them were used as an AWACS. The Iraqi Air Force achieved 400,000 successful combat sorties during the Iran-Iraq war, while Iran did not achieve even 10,000, and this in itself tells who is superior.

1948. American WW2 veteran pilots flying really bad old German 109 planes for the IAF, decimate Arab pilots in better Spitfires in the Israeli War for independence. Sometimes it is not the plane but the pilot.

58 Mirage F1 was shot down by F14s during the war.

Where is saddam yazid and baath party now? Don't fight with big brother

Finaly a mig29 stregy lol.

This mirage-f1 is not EQ

The stupidity of some of the statements made about the Iraqi mirages is beyond belief. Mirage F1 was no match for an Iranian F14 if the F14 was in good shape and not fighting the Mirages alone. In any one case the flight of F14s were no more than 2 ,and in thegreat majority of cases a single F14 would had to tackle up to 6 Mirages or Migs. They would send a flight of six or more Mirage F1s out at low altitude and they would appraoch their target where F14 was on cap, and fire all their radar/heat seeking missiles all at once and hope that one would hit. Iraq had no problem getting masses of missiles or fighters from the Soviets or from France, unlike Iran who was under heavy sanctions by the US and the West. Although Iran had purchased 80 F14 from the US , only 79 were delieverd, the max number of Iranian F14s who were battle ready was less then 24. At the onset of the war, neither the AIM9 Sidewinder nor the AIM7 Sparrow were interfaced properly with the F14s, so they had to rely on their AIM54 misslies that were for long range interception, and not for dog fighting, an dtheir numbers were quite low in the Iranian inventory. Iran is a vast country, nearly 1/2 the size of Europe, and these aircraft had to be deployed sparingly and thinly. Iraq lost in excess of 200 aircraft to the Iranians in its 8 year war with Iran, 42 of them in one instance in the attack on the H3 base near the Jordanian border. In later years Iraq also enjoyed the protection of the US navy in the Persian Gulf. The US Ships would provide a radar umbrella for the Iraqis, but the US would report the position and the movement of the Iranian F4s and F14s to the Iraqis through their stooges the Saudis who would immediately relay the information to the Iraqis. This was to maintain the impression of neutrality on the part of the US. All these were told me by my school friend who was the pilot of an F14, and yes he was also a graduate of the Top Gun school , and an Instructor. As for the obsudity of the Iraqi claims ablout tehir losses, suffice to point out that one Iranian ace Major Zandi, had 11 confirmed kills, 5 of which were Mirage F1. There were many Zandis in the Iranian airforce flying both the F4s. and F14s.

Iran had been attacking Iraqi cities between 4th to 22th of Sep. 1980 Iraq did not make any reply in that period but was submitting tens of messages and reports about the situation then it was the day of revenge

LoL. The same clip is the reason for Iran's success in the air war with Iraq. Soviet. America. France, the British, the entire Arab states supported Iraq. Where in history did the East Ham West support one side of the war. Iran's largest honors with U.S. weapons

Incredible stories that I had not known at all, it's the prove with a good strategy we could win a battle against a superior technology, but the iranians had the right reaction for answering. During the second gulf war in 1991, a lot MIRAGE F1 had shot down by allied aircraft, in particulary by the f-15 C Eagle. Today, a part of these MIRAGE F1 have joined the IRIAF, it's because somme pilots from IRAKI air force have escaped from the Saddam Hussein political regime during this war, and we have not forgotten that 70% of the iraki people are chiite.

This was during Saddam Hossain time right?

Not a Tomcat killer, but a bad pilot killer.