David Burke

But for the most part, we have done a really good job of

wiping out at the very beginning Iran's radar systems to find and locate us and Iran's weapons system to shoot at us.

So those aircraft have created the environment by which Iran is really going to have a very difficult time preventing us from operating in their airspace wherever and however we want.

We call that air dominance, air supremacy.

We control the skies.

And again, the risk isn't zero.

It never will be.

But we have a really good handle on the situation right now.

Yeah, the biggest thing I think you're looking at with the F-14 being flown by Iran, I hate to say it, it's probably nostalgia.

Because the F-14 represented one of the most iconic aircraft America's ever built.

It was showcased in the movie Top Gun.

It's a legendary Navy fighter jet.

We actually sold F-14s to Iran in the 70s, and they used them.

They've been able to preserve, literally for the last 40-plus years, a handful of flying F-14s.

It's very unlikely, and at this point in the war, almost impossible for them to be functional.

But I think what you're talking about and why the question is being asked is it's going to be tough for any American fighter pilot to drop a bomb on an F-14 if they do find one, a silhouette on the ground.

And we've done that with other American-made aircrafts.

They have F-5s, F-4 Phantoms.

They have a lot of older generation American fighters that they owned and bought from us in the 70s that we are single-handedly destroying.

And that's going to pull on the heartstrings of naval aviators who hold those planes in high regard.