The iconic F-14 Tomcat was Grumman's answer. Equipped with long range AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles, F-14s could engage multiple hostiles over 90 miles away.

2020年12月26日 · The F-14 could carry more bombs than the F/A-18A/C Hornet and, with its long range and heavy payload, it became the aircraft carrier’s deep strike platform, effectively replacing the A-6.

With its variable sweep wing design, the F-14 became the Navy’s premier fighter, the first of the super fighters. F-14’s were phased out of service by the end of 2006.

The F-14A Tomcat on the field at the Pacific Coast Air Museum. The Tomcat was the mainstay air superiority fighter of the US Navy from 1974 until 2006. During its 32 years in service, it earned a reputation as one of the most awe-inspiring combat planes of all time.

The F-14, with its AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles, coupled with airborne early-warning aircraft radar, was able to simultaneously intercept, engage and destroy up to six incoming enemy aircraft out to distances of one hundred miles from a carrier task force.

In January 1969, the U.S. Navy selected Grumman Aerospace Corporation to produce a new fighter for air superiority, fleet air defense, and precision strike capability against ground targets. That fighter became the F-14 Tomcat, the last in a long line of Grumman cats for the Navy.

The F-14 Tomcat was the United States Navy’s premier air superiority fighter beginning in the mid-1970s and served ongoing roles into the 21st century. The Tomcat’s design incorporates lessons learned in air-to-air combat during the early phases of the Vietnam War and technology to keep ahead of advancements made by America’s Cold War ...

2024年12月21日 · The real “star” of the movie, though, was the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a supersonic interceptor operating from United States Navy aircraft carriers. Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards, Michael Ironside and Tom Skeritt in “Top Gun,” 1986.

Powered by twin 20,900-pound thrust engines, the F-14A Tomcat could fly over twice the speed of sound. The aircraft was in operational service from 1974-2006. Prior to Operation Desert Storm (1990 - 1991), the Tomcat served as a fighter/fleet defense aircraft, with …

2006年9月22日 · The F-14A is the latest in a long tradition of Grumman fighters built for the U.S. Navy. It is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place strike fighter. The Tomcat’s primary missions are air superiority, fleet air defense and precision strike against ground targets.