Word: 14s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American-trained microbiologist who lived and worked in the U.S. for 18 years before joining the Ayatullah Khomeini's entourage in Paris last October. In a candid interview last week, he discussed the prospect of an "Irangate" scandal, the fate of his country's F-14s and other topics with TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst. Excerpts...
...military hardware in Iran. We've already begun negotiations to sell back the F-14s. We have started talks with the intention of selling all of them-the whole system. We have no problems with other systems and will not be trying to sell off other military hardware...
...mightiest military machines in the Middle East. In 20 years, he has bought $36 billion in arms?half from the U.S. He has submarines from West Germany, tanks from Britain, frigates from Holland. His air force flies 141 F-4Es, 64 F-14As, 20 F-14s; and 180 more jets are on order. He has spent $500 million on 491 Bell helicopters, and will pay out another $500 million to train his men to fly them. Washington evaluates the Shah's army as an intensely loyal, well-equipped force. Manpower is 220,000, with 300,000 reserves...
Reacting to what surely appears to be an imminent enemy attack, the U.S. commander orders two of his F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighters into the air. With their Phoenix missile system, the F-14s can shoot down both the Soviet jets and the missiles they fire. Into the air too goes a U.S. propeller-driven Hawkeye warning and control plane whose sophisticated radar sees everything within a 250-mile radius. The plane's computers can monitor up to 300 targets simultaneously and report their location, speed and course to a computer aboard the F-14s...
When the Hawkeye reports "multiple radar contacts inbound" to the carrier, the U.S. commander sends more F-14s aloft. And on his direct line to the Pentagon command center, he requests permission for "weapon release" so that he can order his men to fire before being attacked...