{"id":2572,"date":"2013-11-13T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:43:03","slug":"iranian-air-force-chasing-ufos-discovered-an-unknown-type-of-dron-read-more-httptheaviationist-com20131110f-14-vs-ufo-uoi8n5tk-8uixzz2kxxytype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2013\/11\/13\/iranian-air-force-chasing-ufos-discovered-an-unknown-type-of-dron-read-more-httptheaviationist-com20131110f-14-vs-ufo-uoi8n5tk-8uixzz2kxxytype\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Air Force Chasing UFOs Discovered An Unknown Type Of Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired by the U.S. Navy more than seven years ago, the iconic\u00a0<a title=\"Grumman F-14 Tomcats first flight (and first crash) video\" href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2013\/01\/29\/tomcat-first-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grumman F-14<\/a>\u00a0remains in service with the\u00a0<a title=\"How IRIAF F-14 Tomcats could be (effectively) used in combat against Israeli or U.S. planes or drones\" href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2012\/03\/16\/how-iriaf-f-14-tomcats-could-be-effectively-used-in-combat-against-israeli-or-u-s-planes-or-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/F-14-IRIAF-top.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iran used\u00a0<a title=\"Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighter jets get a modern splinter color scheme\" href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2013\/09\/04\/iranian-f-14-tomcat-camo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">its Tomcats<\/a>\u00a0extensively in the Iran-Iraq War and the\u00a0<a title=\"[Photo] F-14 Tomcat could land on carrier with missing radome, damaged wing\" href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2013\/11\/06\/f-14-damaged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">F-14A<\/a>\u00a0is still today the backbone of IRIAF air defense.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years the \u201cPersian cats\u201d have reportedly flown against a very particular threat: the Unidentified Flying Objects, universally known as a UFO.<\/p>\n<p>More detailed information about this weird use of the last operational Tomcats can be found in the October 2013 issue of Combat Aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting article written by Babak Taghvaee gives an exclusive overview of IRIAF F-14s missions conducted to intercept UFOs. But according to Taghavee these unknown flying objects didn\u2019t conduct any extraterrestrial activity:<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2013\/11\/10\/f-14-vs-ufo\/#.UoI8n5Tk-8U#ixzz2kXxRebnT\">http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2013\/11\/10\/f-14-vs-ufo\/#.UoI8n5Tk-8U#ixzz2kXxRebnT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired by the U.S. Navy more than seven years ago, the iconic\u00a0Grumman F-14\u00a0remains in service with the\u00a0Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF). Iran used\u00a0its Tomcats\u00a0extensively in the Iran-Iraq War and the\u00a0F-14A\u00a0is still today the backbone of IRIAF air defense. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2013\/11\/13\/iranian-air-force-chasing-ufos-discovered-an-unknown-type-of-dron-read-more-httptheaviationist-com20131110f-14-vs-ufo-uoi8n5tk-8uixzz2kxxytype\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}