Mothballed or retired?
F14 TOMCATS were retired and replaced by F18 hornets for the US navy
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from what i understand,
the usa may have retired their f-14s, but the latter did not retire to the retirement home, i.e., mothball center.
to prevent iran from getting spare parts from these retired planes to maintain iranian f-14s, the usa had them destroyed to very small pieces.
usa didn't want to have them or their allies, going up against iranian f-14s.
similarly,
some folks feel china won't provide us their planes, so's they won't have to fight these planes in the future.
Last edited by dr. d; July 8th, 2021 at 10:14 PM.
^I thought the US navy retire plane models so they could replace it with something better that can destroy all lesser capable planes including the one they replace it with
That way they dont have to worry about their enemies acquiring spare parts for all the planes they have exported as they can simply blow it up in the sky with the more advanced planes they got
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Basically out of spite.
This is what happened to all the old US F-14 Tomcats - We Are The Mighty
There are a lot of Tomcats on display in museums and as gate guardians. But those are just empty shells.
Statement from the PRC Embassy Annex aka Malacanan
On Hague ruling anniversary, Palace claims fishermen lying about China aggression
President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman said Filipino fishermen are lying when they say Chinese boats are hindering them from fishing in some parts of the West Philippine Sea, a body of water which lies within the country's exclusive economic zone.
sabi nga sa korte,
"your honor, the prosecution is lawyering up for the defense!"
China vessels dumping human waste in parts of West Philippine Sea, photos show
To paraphrase: china wuhan virus country, stop shitting on the WPS
The glutton China is not done yet...
China Is Now Using on Malaysia a Strategy it Used on the Philippines
So now, di raw totoo.
DND chief says dumping of human waste in WPS 'not true' | ABS-CBN News
They admitted dumping... but somewhere else in 2014.
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