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]
^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.
^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.
^"شکارچی قهرمان میگهای بعثی درگذشت". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 29 December 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2023.