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The first air-to-ground missions ever flown by US Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jets
‘The F-14s dropped while the F/A-18s lased. We egressed the target area having achieved absolutely superb results from direct hits, and there were impressive...
F-14’s first air-to-air kill was a gun kill but not scored by a US Navy Tomcat
According to a US Navy legend, a few veteran F-14 pilots pledged to build a monument honoring the first person to score a gun...
Why the F-15 Eagle was chosen by the Israeli Air Force over the F-14 Tomcat
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) needed about 50 4th-generation fighters to last them into the 1990s and maybe beyond. The McDonnell Douglas F-15A/B Eagle...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed from the beginning to be a “Bombcat”
The F-14A Tomcat's AWG-15 fire-control system was always configured in CCIP-mode, meaning the jet could always drop "dumb" bombs
For those who still don't know:...