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    The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft...
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  • The Grumman F-14 Tomcat has served with the United States Navy and the Imperial Iranian Air Force, then the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force after 1979...
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    LANTIRN (redirect from AN/AAQ-14)
    Sniper pod. Until the early 1990s, the F-14 Tomcat didn't have clearance to drop bombs even though all Tomcats were built with a Stores Management System...
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  • Beretta 3032 Tomcat, a pistol Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a fighter aircraft Kawasaki Tomcat ZX-10, a motorcycle Rover 200 Coupé, a car TOMCAT/SLIMCAT, a chemical...
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    supplanting the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which was retired in 2006; the Super Hornet has served alongside the original Hornet as well. The F/A-18E/F has been used extensively...
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    lighter Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which carried over the AWG-9 radar/Phoenix missile system, engines, and a similar swing-wing configuration. The F-111B was part...
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    According to NHHC, F-15s may have also shot down a friendly F-14 Tomcat. In addition, the F-15E achieved its first-ever air-to-air kill on 14 February 1991...
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  • F-14 Tomcat is a 2001 action video game released for the Game Boy Advance developed by Virtucraft and published by Majesco. It is an enhanced port of...
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    On 4 January 1989, two Grumman F-14 Tomcats of the United States Navy shot down two Libyan-operated Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Floggers which the American...
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    Corsair II, and the remaining McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs, and to complement the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. Vice Admiral Kent Lee, then head of Naval Air...
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    by Garrett AiResearch and used in early versions of the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter. It is notable for early use of MOS custom integrated circuits and...
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    missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform. The AIM-54 Phoenix was the United...
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    the Middle East. During the 1970s John F. Kennedy was upgraded to handle the F-14 Tomcat and the S-3 Viking. John F. Kennedy was involved in the Navy response...
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    included the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which they flew until their downgrade to the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Fighter...
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    VF-124 (section F-14 Tomcat)
    training of pilots for the F-8 Crusader, and later the training of pilots and radar intercept officers for the F-14 Tomcat. The squadron was disestablished...
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    ever. It also made him the most successful pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat. Jalil Zandi began in the Imperial Iranian Air Force and after the 1979...
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    crash. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when the F-14 Tomcat she was piloting crashed into the sea on final approach to the USS Abraham...
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    Space Shuttle (1984), Comet (1985), High Speed (1986), Pin*Bot (1986), F-14 Tomcat (1987), Cyclone (1988), and Taxi (1988). From 1989 through the mid 1990s...
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    seven IRIAF pilots claimed more than six kills, mostly achieved in the F-14 Tomcat. Veterans of the Iran–Iraq War would go on to form the core of the IRIAF...
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    evolved into the F/A-18. The designations F-13 and F-19 were not assigned. F-14 Tomcat - twin-engine, two-seat, swing-wing fighter F-15 Eagle - twin-engine...
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  • jammers, fifth-generation Su-57 fighters and F-14 Tomcats. Maverick devises a plan employing two pairs of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets armed with laser-guided bombs...
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    Gillcrist, Paul T. (1994). Tomcat! The Grumman F-14 Story, Schiffer Publishing, pp. 10, 195. ISBN 0-88740-664-5 . "F-14 Tomcat fighter fact file." Archived...
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    Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs, but also several F-14 Tomcats.[page needed] On 14 September 1983, a pair of Turkish Air Force F-100F Super Sabre fighter jets of 182...
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    (TARPS) was a large and sophisticated camera pod carried by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It contains three camera bays with different type cameras which are...
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    Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons have been used to simulate later generation Soviet fighters such as the MiG-29. The now-retired Grumman F-14 Tomcat was also...
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    F-14 is the primary focus of the 1987 Williams pinball machine "F-14 Tomcat" and the After Burner video game series by Sega. The McDonnell Douglas F-15...
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    modern aircraft such as the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon in the U.S. Air Force, the F-14 Tomcat in the U.S. Navy, and the F/A-18 Hornet in the U.S....
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    (Persian: اسدالله عادلی) is an Iranian retired fighter pilot on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat who served during the Iran–Iraq War. He was an elite pilot in the Iranian...
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    (2008). F-14 Tomcat Units of Operation Enduring Freedom, Osprey Publishing Limited - Chapter Three – Ground War, page 60 Tony Holmes (2008). F-14 Tomcat Units...
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    military force other than the United States Navy to be equipped with the F-14 Tomcat. Consequently, it also became the only other operator of the AIM-54 Phoenix...
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