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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
The F-14D left the Navy while it was still fighting — a final combat sortie over Iraq in February 2006, the retirement ceremony seven...
The F-15N Sea Eagle was faster, nimbler, and cheaper to run than the Tomcat. It couldn't carry the one weapon the Navy actually needed.
For four decades Iran kept the world's last F-14 Tomcats flying under an embargo meant to ground them. In March, Israel said it finally...
In 1956, a Navy test pilot named Tom Attridge did something no one thought possible: he shot himself down. Diving past the speed of...
The F-14 Tomcat was never meant to fly on the TF30. Designed for the Pratt & Whitney F401, it got the TF30 as a...
The F-14 Tomcat was retired far too soon—and now its maker may be on the verge of winning the biggest U.S. Navy fighter contract...
In August 1990, two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats intercepted what they thought was a hostile high-speed aircraft over the Red Sea—only to discover it...
The F-14 Tomcat Shot Down 5 Enemy Aircraft and Never Lost a Single Jet in Air-to-Air Combat Thanks to the blockbuster Top Gun film...
The F-14 Tomcat remains the ultimate symbol of naval air power, yet its 2006 retirement left a "speed gap" that the U.S. Navy is...