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The F-14 Tomcat Fighter Was the U.S. Navy’s Wonder Weapon

Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat married variable-sweep wings with the Hughes AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to swat bombers at 100+ miles while staying nimble for dogfights. -Early ...
Aviation Week

Tomcat program hosts public 'disestablishment ceremony'

TOMCAT CEREMONY: The U.S. Navy's Tomcat program will host a public "disestablishment ceremony" at 2 p.m. Eastern time April 27 in hangar 2133 at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. "We are ...
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Why the U.S. Navy Loved the F-14 Tomcat Fighter

The Navy needed a carrier fighter that could stop Soviet bomber raids before they reached the fleet—and still win if the fight collapsed to a merge. -Grumman’s F-14 delivered: variable-sweep wings for ...
The National Interest

F-14 Tomcat: The Navy Fighter It Wishes It Could Bring Back from the Dead

The Navy’s F/A-XX program could be used to fill the service’s air superiority gap—which has essentially been left open since the F-14’s retirement and the demise of the NATF and A/F-X programs. But ...
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This Is the Last American F-14 Tomcat To Fly, Awaits a Full Restoration in This Hangar

Thanks in part to its 50th anniversary and in part to a starring role in Top Gun: Maverick, the F-14 Tomcat is once again the most famous fighter jet in the western zeitgeist. This is all despite not ...
The National Interest

Russia Almost Captured an F-14 Tomcat Like in Top Gun: Maverick

What You Need to Know: In 1976, the U.S. Navy faced a Cold War emergency when an F-14 Tomcat fell from the USS John F. Kennedy into the North Atlantic. With the Tomcat’s advanced AIM-54 Phoenix ...