Reintroducing an updated F-14 style-plane could enhance carrier group defenses against emerging threats. There was a time when the United States military, particularly the Navy, understood the ...

And just like that, the Navy’s carrier-based bomber hunter, the F-14 Tomcat, had scored its first air-to-air victory, a plane built to defend America’s carriers from attacking aircraft in a ...

Behind the stick was Col. Jalil Zandi, one of the most fearsome pilots ever to fly the F-14 plane. As Zandi approached the battle, no fewer than eight French-made Mirage fighters came to meet him.

“Felix is the last American F-14 to fly. It was constructed in 1992 and retired in 2006,” museum president Andy Parton said, using the plane’s nickname, Felix 101, during a ceremony Thursda ...

As it happens, the F-14 was not the first plane to utilize the sweep wing concept, with NASA having used it in the 1950s on the experimental X-5 aircraft. A couple of decades of refinement were ...

When the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first flew in 1970 ... ok] details something that was far less well-documented about the plane, namely its avionics. The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It's been called "the coolest plane ever built," immortalized in "Top Gun." After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now ...

And yes, the F-14 is the plane Maverick (Tom Cruise) flies in the 1986 film, "Top Gun." While it didn't see its first action until 1981 (shooting down two Libyan fighters), it would go on to ...

Reintroducing an updated F-14 style-plane could enhance carrier group defenses against emerging threats. There was a time when the United States military, particularly the Navy, understood the ...