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 Tomcat was built to defend U.S. carriers from Soviet bombers with long-range radar and Phoenix missiles, not to duel ...
The Cold War had not yet come to its dramatic and sudden end, as the US Navy was on high alert as its carrier strike group ...
The US Navy would absolutely benefit from the kind of capability the F-14 Tomcat once provided: long-range interception, ...
The functions that the US Navy built the F-14 Tomcat for—aerial interception of Soviet fighter jets—became irrelevant after the Cold War ended.
The F-14 platform was the US Navy’s long-range, high-endurance interceptor able to better defend larger carrier battle groups. Earlier this summer, Iran’s small fleet of remaining F-14 “Tomcat” ...