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 ...

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 ...

Grumman’s “Super Tomcat 21” was the Navy’s road not taken after the A-12 collapse and the NATF sticker shock. -Building on the F-14D, the ST21 promised supercruise F110s, extra fuel in enlarged glove ...

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 ...

Iran is currently the only nation still flying F-14 Tomcats, having acquired 79 in the 1970s. Iran also flies other old U.S. fighters like the F-4 and F-5E.

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 ...

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 ...