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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Razoux 2015 , Table 1.3: Victories by Iranian pilots (3 or more victories), p. 571
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Razoux 2019 , Section 31, p. 15
- ↑ Cooper & Bishop 2004 , p. 79
- 1 2 3 Cooper & Bishop 2004 , Appendices: Iranian F-14A Tomcat Victories, pp. 85–88
- ↑ Farrokh, Kaveh (2011), "The First World War: Iran on the Edge", Iran at War: 1500–1988, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 232, ISBN 9781780962405
Sources
- 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, ISBN 1-84176-787-5
- Razoux, Pierre (2015), The Iran-Iraq War, translated by Nicholas Elliott, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-91571-8
- Razoux, Pierre (2019), Le siècle des As (1915-1988): Une autre histoire de l'aviation (in French), Place des éditeurs, ISBN 978-2-262-04827-3
- Sadler, John; Serdville, Rosie (2017), Fighter Aces: Knights of the Skies, Casemate Publishers, p. 21, ISBN 978-1-612-00483-9