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The F-14 Tomcat Fighter Was Nearly Replaced
In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy seriously considered replacing its iconic but troubled F-14 Tomcat with a navalized version of ...
Unlike many fighter jets today, the F-14 Tomcat seated two. That's a feature typically reserved for training models of jets, ...
The final member of the Grumman cat family, the F-14 Tomcat, with its signature variable-geometry wings and twin-engine design, became an iconic symbol of the Cold War. Creating the Cat A product ...
When the U.S. decommissioned the F-14 in 2006, many were dismantled and shredded to prevent hardware from ending up in Iranian hands. Iran was said to have up to 10 F-14s in early 2024, but it was ...
Remembering the Tomcat In three decades of service, American F-14s tallied only five air-to-air kills. Indeed, the F-14 tallied more kills on screen, in the two Top Gun films.
The F-14 Tomcat famously features in the 1986 action blockbuster “Top Gun.” Producers paid the US Navy almost $900,000 for flight time in an F-14.
After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now was there at Naval Air Station Oceana to document the aircraft's final flight, as Hampton Roads bid ...
New satellite imagery of an Iranian airfield shows two US-made F-14 fighter jets — one of which looks to be totally destroyed — after they were hit by Israeli airstrikes earlier in the week ...
By 2025, only a handful of the 80 F-14A Tomcats shipped to Iran were still operational or semi-operational. The two F-14s destroyed by Israel were likely among the last surviving F-14 aircraft in ...