Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat married variable-sweep wings with the Hughes AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to swat bombers at 100+ miles while staying nimble for dogfights. -Early ...

The F-14’s size was dictated by its missile load. Its variable geometry wings were critical for both takeoff and high-speed flight, but they limited missile placement on the wing itself. The solution?

Summary and Key Points: In 1991, an F-14 Tomcat from the U.S. Navy’s Ghost Riders squadron experienced a critical in-flight malfunction when its nose cone detached due to a landing mechanism failure ...

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. A product of the “Grumman Iron ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The F-14 Tomcat, the dogfighting Cold War fighter jet immortalized in the movie Top Gun, made its ceremonial final flight Friday in a display that suggested the timing was right ...

Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Super Hornet are iconic U.S. Navy aircraft, with the former prominently featured in the original Top Gun and the latter in the sequel Top Gun: ...