Nineteen years ago, the Navy bid farewell to F-14 Tomcat, star of original 'Top Gun' movie
After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now was there at Naval Air Station ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Aims to be Top Gun for Navy’s 6th Generation Fighters
The U.S. Navy will this week announce whether Northrop Grumman (NOC) or Boeing (BA) will build its next-generation carrier-based stealth ...
Trump Offers a Glimpse of New Stealth Fighter, the F-47
On Friday, the country’s 47th president, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by his side in the Oval Office, announced that ...
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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
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The Greatest Plane That Never Was: The F-22N Sea Raptor
If the Navy had embraced this brilliant plane, it is unlikely that the Obama administration would have been able to cut the ...
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Hometown Patriot: Mitch McCallister
SHREVEPORT, La. - It is one of the most lethal aircraft in America's Air Force; the F-18 Hornet. One of the pilots of that ...
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An Iranian F-14 Tomcat Claims to Have Intercepted a U.S. Spy Drone
Mark Welsh explained what happened next: “He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to ... aerial platforms like the Phantom and Tomcat. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in ...
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Donald Trump has named new F-47 fighter after himself
By accident or design, US President Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States, has designated a new planned USAF ...
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How Did American Jet Industries Become Gulfstream Aerospace?
In the meantime, Grumman Aerospace, a well-established defense and aviation company known for manufacturing military aircraft such as the legendary F-14 Tomcat, has already experimented and ...