Assadollah Adeli

Assadollah Adeli (Persian: اسدالله عادلی‎) is an Iranian retired fighter pilot of Grumman F-14 Tomcat who served during the Iran–Iraq War.

Assadollah Adeli
Nickname(s)Asad
AllegianceIran
Service/branch
RankColonel
Battles/warsIran–Iraq War

French military historian Pierre Razoux has credited him with 5 aerial victories, a record that qualifies him as a flying ace.[1] Together with his radar intercept officer (RIO) Mohammad Masbough, he holds the record for shooting down three aircraft with one single missile. On 7 January 1981, they scored three Iraqi MiG-23s flying in a close formation at around 2,000 feet over Kharg Island, with one AIM-54 Phoenix missile hitting the one in the middle and downing the other two damaged by the explosion.[2][3][4] Cooper and Bishop list the three MiG-23s among confirmed kills by Iranians, without being able to identify the pilots.[5]

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References
  1. 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
  2. Razoux, Pierre (2015), The Iran-Iraq War, translated by Nicholas Elliott, Harvard University Press, Table 1.3: Victories by Iranian pilots (3 or more victories), p. 571, ISBN 978-0-674-91571-8
  3. "The F-14 Tomcat and the Pilots Who Flew It", The Museum of Flight, retrieved 5 November 2020
  4. Stilwell, Blake (11 December 2018), "How an F-14 Tomcat once took out 3 MiG fighters with one missile", The Business Insider, retrieved 5 November 2020
  5. Cooper, Tom; Bishop, Farzad (2004), Holmes, Tony; Hales-Dutton, Bruce (eds.), Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat, Osprey Combat Aircraft, 49, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, Appendices: Iranian F-14A Tomcat Victories, pp. 85–88, ISBN 1 84176 787 5


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