The Grumman F-14 Tomcat may be a Hollywood icon, but its most impressive combat record belongs to Iran, not the United States ...
The F-14 was designed for one very specific mission profile: defending US carrier strike groups against Soviet bombers armed with long-range anti-ship missiles. Everything about the F-14 reflected ...
Utilized during the Cold War, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was a reliable and highly effective defense fighter jet. Thanks to its weapons systems and variable-sweep wing design, the two-engine Tomcat had ...
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat dominated the skies between 1974 and 2006, as well as pop culture, thanks to the movie "Top Gun." In its time, it was on the bleeding edge of technology, with AIM-54 Phoenix ...
The Israel Defense Forces announced that it destroyed three Iranian F-14 fighter jets in strikes on central Iran on Saturday. “The IDF struck F-14 fighter jets belonging to the Iranian Armed Forced in ...
The Israeli military said it bombed two Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Tehran earlier this week. A new satellite image shows that one of the fighter jets is destroyed while the other looks damaged. The US ...
While Hollywood made the F-14 famous, Iranian fighter pilots made it legendary. During the Iran-Iraq War, these real-life Top Guns flew the F-14 Tomcat into fierce dogfights, often outnumbered and ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It's been called "the coolest plane ever built," immortalized in "Top Gun." After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now was ...
In three decades of service, American F-14s tallied only five air-to-air kills. Indeed, the F-14 tallied more kills on screen, in the two Top Gun films. The F-14 is featured so prominently in 1986’s ...
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is probably the most recognizable fighter jet from the 20th century thanks to 1986's "Top Gun," starring Tom Cruise. The general public got to see the jet's variable sweep wing ...
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When the movie TOP GUN was released in 1986, your author was a fourteen-year-old freshman in high school. I’d been a nut for things with wings for right around four years, and was eager to see the ...