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Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
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Grumman pitched the ST-21 in the early 1990s as either a new-build jet or a remanufactured F-14, as the Navy looked for a way...
The F-14 was built to stop Soviet bombers and cruise missiles before they reached the carrier. A pilot and a radar intercept officer could...
On January 5, 1999, two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats from USS Carl Vinson fired AIM-54 Phoenix missiles at Iraqi MiG-25s over Operation Southern Watch....
The F-14 'Super' Tomcat would have had increased range thanks to new engines. And yet, no stealth and high cost ended that dream.
The Navy’s swing-wing F-14 Tomcat fighter outlived the US Navy that retired it. It did not outlive the country that bought it as an...
France embargoed Israel in 1967 and took its main aircraft supplier away overnight. By 1974 the Israeli Ministry of Defence was asking Washington for...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly flew the F-111B himself and then told a congressional committee there was not enough thrust in all Christendom to make...
The first Iranian Tomcat kill came on September 7, 1980, two weeks before Iraq formally invaded - an Mi-25 helicopter shot down with the...
A carrier commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered launched a German ballistic missile from her flight deck, then flew F/A-18s against Saddam Hussein 44...
Since entering service in 1999, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has accumulated twelve million flight hours. It made its combat debut in 2002 over Iraq,...