The Northrop Grumman F-14 fighter jet is perhaps most ... The AIM-54 was a heavy weapon.” While the Tomcat, equipped with the formidable Phoenix missile, was a very powerful airframe at the ...

This range constraint is concerning as China's anti-ship ballistic missile technology advances. Historically, the Navy relied on aircraft like the F-14 Tomcat, introduced in the 1970s, which ...

Before the U.S. Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat, it was the premier ... at the time– as well as training in the Tomcat for Iran's pilots. The Phoenix missile coupled with the radar system gave ...

If you’re asked to picture a fighter jet, the images conjured in most people’s minds will look very similar to the iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a formidable combat aircraft and star of the ...

By late 1978, 284 Phoenix missiles were also delivered ... reported about the Iranian Tomcat pilots. “In the 1990s, a number of observers declared the F-14 and AIM-54 to be an ‘expensive ...