What if America’s greatest fighter, the U.S. Navy’s greatest icon, had been scrapped, not for its slowness and clumsiness, but due to a single, persistent engineering flaw? During the 1970s, the F-14 ...

When people think of legendary fighter jets, the F-14 Tomcat immediately comes to mind. Immortalized in Top Gun and The Final Countdown, the Tomcat is often remembered as a pilot-maker, launching ...

The final member of the Grumman cat family, the F-14 Tomcat, with its signature variable-geometry wings and twin-engine design, became an iconic symbol of the Cold War. A product of the “Grumman Iron ...

Before the U.S. Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat, it was the premier bomber hunter. Its after-burning turbofan engines –whether General Electric or Pratt & Whitney's power plants– let it exceed two times ...

Many of the F-14’s design innovations were intended for long-range strike missions—but served it well in close-quarters combat, too. Remembered for the close-in dogfighting sequences of Top Gun, the F ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy sought to replace the F-14 Tomcat with a navalized version of the F-15, dubbed the F-15N Sea Eagle. -Designed by McDonnell Douglas, this variant aimed to be lighter and ...