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The Cold War had its races, and one played out 60 nautical miles north of Scotland in 1976. During NATO’s Teamwork exercise an F-14A...
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The Cold War had its races, and one played out 60 nautical miles north of Scotland in 1976. During NATO’s Teamwork exercise an F-14A...
The Pentagon forced the Navy and Air Force to share one jet in the 1960s. The Air Force’s F-111A delivered 25,000 to 30,000 pounds...
Iran is the F-14 Tomcat’s sole operator. The Shah took delivery of 79 to counter Iraq’s MiG-25s, and in the Iran-Iraq War Tehran claimed...
Summary and Key Points: The F-14D Super Tomcat replaced the F-14A’s stall-prone TF30 engines with GE F110s, gained roughly 60 percent more strike range,...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...
In 1972 Grumman painted an F-14 Tomcat in Air Force markings and pitched it to replace the F-106 as North America’s bomber interceptor, with...
The US Navy built the F-14 Tomcat and the AIM-54 Phoenix to kill Soviet bombers, fired three Phoenixes in anger and scored zero kills....
The AWG-9 could track targets beyond 100 miles and the Tomcat carried six Phoenix missiles for six targets at Mach 2.34. The TF30 engines...
'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
Mike Relja, who kept NASA's SR-71A flying, told Aviation Week 'I just don't think you can get there from here.' The F-14 has been...