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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike

Ahh...where do I start young grasshopper....

Lots of goods, lots of others.

Goods: Strong radar, lots of gas, good speed, lots of ordnance, 2 man crew, in it's heyday very manueverable compared to other jets...

Others: originally very stall prone motors (PW TF30-P414A), lots of moving parts, not fly by wire, 6.5 G limited when at low fuel state, originally had a 64K computer with a tape (yes tape like a cassette) read in for the tactical OFP.....

But it got better with the F-14D: GE motors, digital flight control system, new HUD, APG-71 radar, Digital TARPS, GPS, LANTIRN, JDAM capable, JTIDS, and more...

But alas it's the same old 6.5 G airframe with a huge RCS.

So now going on 33 years old...it's time has come...and it will be put out to pasture...just like me. :)

The F/A-18F is a good replacement.

r/
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currently in Qatar: "My what a lovely sand lot you have here..."
 
got to see its last performance today at the NAS Oceana airshow. sexy bird even though i never did like the look of it. too bad its gone
 
yeah, I got the pictures to prove it

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Barnard1425 said:
I hear that an F-14 can shoot down four or five F-5's in one sitting, but only if they're painted black and have big red stars on the rudder.......
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Haha thats awesome.

Is it true that in a dogfight you had to unload the wings before changing the throttle settings?
 
A4sForever said:
Downside to the F-14??? It's not in the front-line inventory anymore ..... :)
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Actually VF-31 and VF-213 are still scheduled to do one last deployment... methinks starting in October?

Downside? I'd add not being able to carry the AMRAAM or the HARM...
 
^ nope, they already left on the Roosevelt...

Kinda fitting to see the last Tomcat cruise end the way an airwing used to be, with two sqadrons of Toms aboard...
 
Barnard1425 said:
I hear that an F-14 can shoot down four or five F-5's in one sitting, but only if they're painted black and have big red stars on the rudder.......
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I would like to get the Libyan Air Force's views on the F-14. :D
 
How about a MIM-23 HAWK air-surface missile modified for air-air work?
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This was the Iranian answer to the embargo in the '80s. Not too effective as I understand it so they worked on making the old Phoenix work.

Interesting that the Iranians will still be flying the Tomcat after us.

More info on Iranian Tomcats kills:
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_210.shtml
 
TurnandBurn55 said:
Actually VF-31 and VF-213 are still scheduled to do one last deployment... methinks starting in October?

Downside? I'd add not being able to carry the AMRAAM or the HARM...
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What? You don't like being my HARM truck? Just tell your RAG-Is that you're not going to bother learning anything about HARM because the Prowler guys in the fleet are going to do all your HARM planning anyway. ;)

Brett
 
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