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Italy’s Prime Minister saved Gaddafi’s life by warning of Operation El Dorado Canyon
The Italian F-104s scrambled to inspect the USAF armada approaching western Sicily around midnight from Apr. 14 to 15, 1986, and were aggressively approached...
“Hank” Kleemann: The first F-14 combat winner
The Tomcat
Built for the US Navy from 1969 to 1992, the F-14 Tomcat was among the last dedicated fighters to enter production before the...
Former F-14 pilot explains how he was able to land his crippled Tomcat with the wings swept back
How Navy Pilot Mark Vizcarra Trained for the "Impossible" and Saved His Tomcat in 1992
It was 1992 over Arkansas, and Mark Vizcarra's F-14 Tomcat...
The “ADCOM F-14”: the USAF Tomcat that never was
The USAF F-14 Tomcat that never was
In January 1969, the U.S. Navy chose Grumman Aerospace Corporation to build a new fighter designed for air...
When an IrAF MiG-23ML mistakenly shot down an IRIAF F-14A defecting to Iraq
Shortly after taking a smooth right turn, the two MiG-23MLs from No. 63 Squadron rolled out barely 8nm behind the F-14A, meanwhile underway well...