What You Need to Know: The retirement of the F-14 Tomcat has left a significant capabilities gap in the U.S ... at which the United States made several decisions about key weapons systems and ...

In the January 1970 issue, Popular Mechanics laid out the details of the Navy's newest jet fighter: the F-14 Tomcat ... the F-111 found a home with the United States Air Force.

During its three decades in service with the United States ... fighter. Grumman was awarded the contract in January 1969. The result was the F-14 “Tomcat” – named so partially to honor Navy ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. - The F-14 Tomcat recently joined the ranks of military exhibits along Hap Arnold Boulevard. The Navy fighter aircraft is armed with Sidewinder missiles that are ...

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat ... the iconic Tomcat was decommissioned. It's easy to compare the Hornet and the Tomcat to each other since the F/A-18 took over as the Navy's premier fighter jet.

Even if this mission requirement was later abandoned by the US Navy, Grumman worked to ensure the F-14 could, if required, fly in a strike fighter ... weapons employed by the Tomcat in Iraq ...

The F-14, known as the Tomcat, was a marvel of American ... “The TF30 is just a terrible engine,” former United States Secretary of the Navy John Lehman once told Congress.

Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada is the United States Navy’s most important air-to ... and TOPDOME (the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School) wears desert or Su-27-like color schemes ...

What You Need to Know: The retirement of the F-14 Tomcat has left a significant capabilities gap in the U.S. Navy ... which the United States made several decisions about key weapons systems ...