Mohammad Masbouq (Persian: محمد مسبوق), (June 4, 1950 – December 29, 2021) was an Iranian fighter pilot on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat who served during the Iran–Iraq War.[1] He was an elite pilot in the Iranian Air Force, and he mainly flew with Assadullah Adeli in the rear cabin as a pilot and radar intercept officer.[2][3][4][5]
Mohammad Masbouq | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 4, 1950 Hamadan |
| Died | December 29, 2021 Tehran |
| Allegiance | Iran |
| Service | |
| Rank | Second brigadier general (Iran) |
| Battles / wars | Iran–Iraq War |
French military historian Pierre Razoux has credited him and his leader Assadullah Adeli with five aerial victories, a record that qualifies them as a flying ace. they hold the record for shooting down three aircraft with one single missile. This took place on 7 January 1981, when they shot down three MiG-23 fighter aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force that were flying in a close formation at around 2,000 feet over Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. they shot them down with one AIM-54 Phoenix missile, hitting the one in the middle and damaging the other two from the explosion. Cooper and Bishop list the three MiG-23s among confirmed kills by Iranians, without being able to identify the pilots.[6][7]
Education
editIn 1968, he was hired by the army's ground force, but after a while, due to his interest in piloting, after passing the relevant tests in 1972, he was sent to Lackland, Texas, to continue. After a long period of illness, Mohammad Mesbouq died on 29 December 2021, in Tehran.[8][9][10]
References
edit- ^ مقدس, خبرگزاری دفاع. "ایران خلبانی دارد که ۱۶ هواپیمای دشمن را ساقط کرد". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ Stilwell, Blake (29 April 2020). "That time an F-14 killed three MiGs with a single missile". We Are The Mighty. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "How an F-14 Tomcat once took out 3 MiG fighters with one missile". Yahoo News. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "بابک تقوایی | مردی که به نگهبان آسمان ایران شهرت یافت که بود؟". ایندیپندنت فارسی (in Persian). 1 January 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Behnegarsoft.com (18 December 2016). "امیرسرتیپ مسبوق: "عملیات مروارید" را بی‌طرفانه و با تکیه بر اسناد نوشتم | ایبنا". خبرگزاری کتاب ايران (IBNA) (in Persian). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Razoux, Pierre (2019), Le siècle des As (1915-1988): Une autre histoire de l'aviation (in French), Place des éditeurs, Section 31, p. 15, ISBN 978-2-262-04827-3.
- ^ Cooper, Tom; Bishop, Farzad (2004), Holmes, Tony; Hales-Dutton, Bruce (eds.), Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat, Osprey Combat Aircraft, vol. 49, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, Appendices: Iranian F-14A Tomcat Victories, pp. 85–88, ISBN 1-84176-787-5.
- ^ "شکارچی قهرمان میگ‌های بعثی درگذشت". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 29 December 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ Mohammad Masbouq, Mohammad. "The Commander-in-Chief of the Army expressed his condolences on the death of the second Brigadier General Mohammad Masbouq". www.irna.ir. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "یادی از خالق یک نبرد شگفت‌انگیز". ایسنا (in Persian). 4 January 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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