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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    included the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which they flew until their upgrade to the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Fighter...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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  • F-14 Tomcats. With the GPS spoofing making the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II unfeasible, Maverick devises a plan employing two pairs of F/A-18E/F...
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    but was a direct predecessor of the AIM-54 Phoenix used on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. In the early 1950s, the United States Air Force developed requirements...
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    فریدون علی‌مازندرانی) is an Iranian retired fighter pilot and a Grumman F-14 Tomcat flying ace during the Iran–Iraq War. Mazandarani claims 16 aerial victories...
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    adaptable to the Navy Advanced Tactical Fighter (NATF) for replacing the F-14 Tomcat, but by fiscal year (FY) 1992, the U.S. Navy had abandoned NATF due to...
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  • Bishop 2004, Appendices: Iranian F-14A Tomcat Victories, p. 85 Cooper & Bishop 2004, Appendices: Iranian F-14A Tomcat Victories, p. 86 Razoux 2015, Table...
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    After the West Coast FRS for the F-14 Tomcat, VF-124, was disestablished in the mid-1990s, VF-101 became the sole F-14 FRS. At the time it was based at...
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