{"id":328236,"date":"2026-03-08T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/328236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:59:08","slug":"idf-destroys-irans-f-14-jets-air-defense-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/328236\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF destroys Iran&#8217;s F-14 jets, air defense systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF struck over 400 targets throughout Iran over the last day, a military spokesperson announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Among the targets the IDF successfully took out were several of Iran&#8217;s F-14 fighter jets, along with detection and air defense systems which posed a threat to IDF aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The jets were located at the airport in Isfahan, the city where Israel had previously destroyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-888783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghadr-class ballistic missiles<\/a> and their launch platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Another strike conducted on Friday by the IDF destroyed 16 &#8216;Quds Force&#8217; aircraft at the Mehrabad airport in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/tehran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tehran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iran received 79 of the US-made F-14&#8217;s in 1976 when the country was still ruled by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Iranian Shahs<\/a>. These were taken by the Islamic Republic after the 1979 Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The F-14 was retired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-889183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US Navy<\/a> in 2006, being replaced by the F-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country that still uses the twin-engine fighter jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF struck over 400 targets throughout Iran over the last day, a military spokesperson announced on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83601,42,1031,87,91,15005,43,157282,157283,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-328236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fighter-jets","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-war","tag-israel-iran-war","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}