The F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the 'Top Gun' films and retired by the US Navy years ago, has continued to live on in Iran, but they're under fire.

Iran’s F-14 Tomcats Have Been Flying Since 1974—Thanks to Spies and Arms Smugglers The U.S. sold Iran dozens of its most capable jet—then spent decades chasing the spies and arms dealers ...

The F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the 'Top Gun' films and retired by the US Navy years ago, has continued to live on in Iran, but they're under fire.

Nearly everyone knows Maverick, Goose, and the thrill of Top Gun dogfighting, and most people know the F-14 Tomcat is a two-seater air-combat platform. And yet what is lesser known is that the ...

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. Creating the Cat A product ...

Between 1969 and 1991, the Grumman Corporation built 632 of the US Navy's legendary F-14 Tomcat. Its primary purpose was to track down and intercept Soviet bombers. With double engines that could ...

A legendary F-14 Tomcat, its sleek, silver wings set back, poised for flight, now rests outside the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale, its permanent home after months of restoration by ...

When the U.S. decommissioned the F-14 in 2006, many were dismantled and shredded to prevent hardware from ending up in Iranian hands. Iran was said to have up to 10 F-14s in early 2024, but it was ...

The F-14's wings adjusted depending on flight conditions SSgt. Michael D. Gaddis, USAF/WikiMedia Despite its two-seat capacity, both F-14 occupants were not actually piloting the jet.

Last week, Israeli strikes in Tehran destroyed two F-14s. The US-made F-14 Tomcats were supplied to Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and are believed to be the last ones still in operation.

The ASF-14, with some 60,000 pounds of thrust and a better thrust-to-weight ratio than the F-14D, thrust vector control, massive internal fuel stores, huge payload capabilities, and incredible ...

The F-14’s wings could be varied from between 20 degrees and 68 degrees in flight. The wing sweep was automatically controlled using the Central Air Data Computer (CADC), which maintained an ...