Super Tomcat 21: The Advanced Jet That Could Have Outperformed the Super Hornet Designed to incorporate the air combat experience learned during the Vietnam War, the Grumman F-14 was the first of ...

“The left side of the lead Libyan aircraft lit up with a big flame as the missile motor ignited,” recounted Lieutenant Larry “Music” Muczynski, one of the two F-14 Tomcat pilots. That ...

One of the world’s most famous fighter jets once had a secondary mission of dropping precision-guided bombs in wartime. The F-14 Tomcat, designed to protect carrier battle groups from swarms of ...

A legendary F-14 Tomcat, its sleek, silver wings set back, poised for flight, now rests outside the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale, its permanent home after months of restoration by ...

3 Top Facts: The Super Tomcat 21 was an ambitious proposal to evolve the iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat into a more advanced, multi-role fighter for the U.S. Navy. -Building on the F-14D model ...

Introducing the F-14 Tomcat The F-14 Tomcat was conceptualized in the late 1950s. The Navy sought a long-range, high-endurance interceptor capable of protecting its carrier battle groups.

The F-14 Tomcat was primarily designed to defend the U.S. Navy’s fleets from airborne threats, using its AWG-9 radar and the long-range AIM-54 Phoenix missiles for against bombers carrying ...

Interesting video shows the F-14 Tomcat during its early development flights. Several years since it was eventually retired from the U.S. Navy, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat remains one of the aviation ...