Mostafa Roustaei ( fa, مصطفی روستایی) is an Iranian
amateur astronomer and retired
fighter pilot
A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground combat and sometimes electronic warfare while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft. Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and ...
who flew with
Grumman F-14 Tomcat during the
Iran–Iraq War. French military historian
Pierre Razoux
Pierre Razoux (born in 1966) is a writer and historian, a French Senior Civil Servant and a Doctor of Military History. He is in charge of the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative. He studied law, history and internation ...
has credited him with 5 aerial victories, a record that qualifies him as a
flying ace.
Career
Roustaei was hired by the IIAF in 1970 and after 30 years of service, he was retired with the rank of colonel.
He served for some time as the
chief operations officer of the
6th Tactical Fighter Base.
A U.S. trained pilot, he graduated from the
AETC course at
Laughlin Air Force Base in 1974.
He was subsequently certified with
F-4D/E Phantom II, an aircraft he flew for 2200 hours before switching to F-14 Tomcat.
He flew a further 2086 hours with the latter.
Aerial victories
According to aviation author Kash Ryan, Roustaei's aerial victories verified by his logbooks and corroborated with other accounts include four using
AIM-54 Phoenix missiles and one maneuver kill, against two
MiG-23s, a
MiG-21 and a pair of
Dassault Mirage F1
The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was developed as a successor to the popular Mirage III family.
During the 1960s, Dassault commenced development of what would ...
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See also
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List of Iranian flying aces
References
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Iran–Iraq War flying aces
Iranian flying aces
Living people
Islamic Republic of Iran Army colonels
1951 births
Amateur astronomers
Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel of the Iran–Iraq War
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force personnel