Mohammad Masbouq

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
BornJune 4, 1950
Hamadan
DiedDecember 29, 2021
Tehran
AllegianceIran
Service/branch
RankSecond brigadier general (Iran)
Battles/warsIran–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

In 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
  1. مقدس, خبرگزاری دفاع. "ایران خلبانی دارد که ۱۶ هواپیمای دشمن را ساقط کرد". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  2. 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.
  3. "How an F-14 Tomcat once took out 3 MiG fighters with one missile". Yahoo News. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  4. "بابک تقوایی | مردی که به نگهبان آسمان ایران شهرت یافت که بود؟". ایندیپندنت فارسی (in Persian). 1 January 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. "شکارچی قهرمان میگ‌های بعثی درگذشت". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 29 December 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  9. 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.
  10. "یادی از خالق یک نبرد شگفت‌انگیز". ایسنا (in Persian). 4 January 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.


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