AIM-54是一种威力巨大的导弹，由F-14的雷达引导，每一架F-14都可以挂载6枚不死鸟导弹。最佳条件下的发射距离是112千米，然而，为了保证其命中，伊朗飞行员将在距离40至50千米的地方发射。导弹不是直接跟着目标去的，它计算了目标可能的航线，并朝那里飞去，因此，逃脱它的打击是相当困难的。
AIM-54 Phoenix is a powerful Anti-Air Missile guided by the radar of the F-14. Every F-14 can carry 6 Phoenix missiles. Its range in ideal conditions of launching is 112km. However, in order to make sure it hit the target, Iranian pilots would launch at mostly 40 to 50km form the target. The missile does not follow the target directly, it calculated the probable course of the target and goes there. Therefore, it is very difficult to escape form it.
费雷多.阿里马赞达拉尼：
"因为我们距离不远，所以我在一秒钟后看见了一个爆炸。在科尔曼沙的直接空中支援中心，一名F-5飞行员说他发现了残骸。"
这是战争期间F-14飞行员发射不死鸟导弹追逐敌机的少数几例之一。尽管击落敌机对于飞行员来说是无尚的成功，但是一名飞行员的主要任务是阻止敌人的任务。这将保护他们自己的设施和部队免遭打击，同样还能给敌人造成损失并迫使其放弃轰炸。F-14飞行员们试着强迫把伊拉克人驱逐出去，卡里里就是这样的一名飞行员。
驾驶战斗机飞行时间最长的记录属于卡里里，他在天上完成了8次空中加油，开着一架F-14在天上飞行了超过11小时，这个记录也许再也无法在航空史中被打破。
Fereydoun Alimazandarani:
"As we weren't far away, I saw the blast a fraction of a second later. The Direct Air Support Center(DASC) in Kermanshah, a F-5 pilot, said they'd found the wreckage. "
This is one of the few cases during the war that the F-14s pilots launched a Phoenix to chase the enemy's fighters. Although destroying the enemy's aircraft is the atomic success for a fighter plane, the first duty of a pilot is to prevent the enemy's mission. This will preserve their own facility and troops, and will also inflict the high cost of flight and abandoned bomb on the enemy. F-14 pilots try to force Iraqi pilots to flee. Khalili is one of the pilots who have prevented the mission of the Iraqi pilots.
雅杜拉.卡里里将军(F-14飞行员)：
"我认为第一次和伊拉克交手是在我们亲爱的伊斯兰国家西边，在战前他们就数次越过边境。一天我带着一名学员飞行员在天上飞行，这时迪兹富勒的雷达站通知我们有6架米格机轰炸了那里。那个时候，我们还没有战争爆发6个月后的拿群亲爱的工程师。我们还没有装备红外导弹，只有不死鸟和航炮。
Gen Yadullah Khalili (F-14 pilot):
"I think the first engagement we had with the Iraqi MiG-21 was in the west of our dear Islamic country before the war when they crossed the border many times. One day I was flying with a pilot as his trainer when Dezful radar informed us that 6 MiG aircraft had attacked. At that time, we didn't have the capabilities our dear engineers provided 6 months after the imposed war broke out. We hadn't installed heat-seeking rockets yet. We only had Phoenix missiles and the machine gun.
"在3000英尺高度处，我们发现了6架米格-21战斗机正在向西飞行，他们相互之间的距离是100至200米。当我在长机上方做了一个滚桶机动的时候，我看见了那名飞行员膝盖上的地图(看来《Top Gun》里的剧情还真的发生过)，我就在他的上方3至4米处。我们在他们长机上方的机动吸引了他们的注意，接下来是大约30至35秒的战斗。我们没有红外导弹，只有航炮，作为F-14飞行员，我们的目标就是要阻止伊拉克战机的轰炸。"
"At 3000ft, we engaged 6 MiG-21 fighters which were flying westwards. They were flying 100 to 200 meters apart. When I did a barrel roll above their leader, I saw the map on his lap. I was about 3 to 4 meters above them. The tactic we performed above the leader disarranged them. We fought them for about 30 to 35 seconds. We didn't have heat-seeking rockets, only the machine gun. One of our aims as F-14 pilots was to prevent and stop the attack by Iraqi planes. "
驾驶战斗机飞行时间最长的记录属于卡里里，他在天上完成了8次空中加油，开着一架F-14在天上飞行了超过11小时，这个记录也许再也无法在航空史中被打破。在战争期间，F-14飞行员们不得不连续巡逻4至5小时，一些人甚至飞行了超过9个小时。伊朗飞行员同样还有着一枚导弹击落3架飞机的记录。1981年1月7日，阿萨德.阿德里上尉和默罕默德.马斯布上尉驾驶的一架F-14用一枚不死鸟击落了3架伊拉克飞机。
The world record of the longest flight in a fighter belongs to Khalili. By doing 8 times of aerial refueling, he flew a F-14 for more than 11 hours. This record may never being broken in the aviation history. During the war, F-14 pilots had to patrol 4 to 5 hours nonstop. Some of them had flown their planes for more than 9 hours. The Iranian pilots of F-14s also hold the record of shooting down 3 aircraft with one missile. A Iranian F-14 piloted by Capts Asad Adeli and Mohammad Masbough shot down 3 Iraqi aircraft with one Phoenix.
阿萨德.阿德里（现在军衔上校）和默罕默德.马斯布（现在军衔将军）驾驶一架F-14A用一枚AIM-54导弹击落了3架伊拉克米格-23并重创第4架。前者在1988年7月27日还获得了两伊战争目前所知的最后一个F-14战果，用霍克导弹击落了一架米格-29，因此，阿萨德.阿德里也成为了最后一名雄猫王牌。
