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    The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, tandem two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter...
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    General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B was a long-range carrier-based interceptor aircraft planned as a follow-on to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II for...
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    The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft...
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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 became the...
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    initially taken over by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat equipped with a LANTIRN pod, and later passed on to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. As a result of...
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    technology program, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It did not have a long-range radar or the long-range missiles used by the F-14. The F-15N-PHX was another proposed...
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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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    ed. (1998). Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Shipborne Superfighter. Aerospace Publishing. p. 85. Lake, Jon; Hewson, Richard (Summer 1996). "Northrop F-5". World Air...
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    similar to the F-111. The US Navy's role intended for the F-111B was instead filled by another variable-geometry design, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The first...
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    air-to-air 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...
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    (Persian: 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...
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    buy McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles, a key component in U.S. air-defense technology. Iran was already receiving the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and this demonstrated...
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  • eventually emerging on the ill-fated General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B and successful Grumman F-14 Tomcat years later. Through the later part of the 1950s...
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  • (Persian: فضل‌الله جاویدنیا) is an Iranian retired fighter pilot and a Grumman F-14 Tomcat flying ace during the Iran–Iraq War. During the war, he established...
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    which reset the F-# sequence. The term typically includes the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon...
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    fighter/interceptor aircraft, including the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and the Panavia Tornado ADV. From the 1980s onwards, the development...
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    from that post in 1971. Connolly was instrumental in developing the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The plane was named in his honor and for Thomas Hinman Moorer...
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    leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid. December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight. December 22 The Libyan Revolutionary Council...
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    air-superiority and multirole fighters, such as the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, having the performance to take on the point...
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    incident by United States Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcats on 19 August 1981. One Su-22 launched a K-13 missile head-on at one of the F-14s from an estimated 300-meter...
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    Self-Defense Force List of F-15 losses, Japan Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Grumman F-14 Tomcat McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Panavia...
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    tracking drug smugglers. The type was commonly used in conjunction with Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, monitoring airspace and then vectoring Tomcats over...
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    Grumman G-44 Widgeon is a five-person, twin-engined, amphibious aircraft. It was designated J4F by the United States Navy and Coast Guard and OA-14 by...
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    "Fox" is short for "foxtrot", the NATO phonetic designation for the letter "F", which is short for "fire". A fighter pilot announcing that a weapon has...
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    in tandem with the company's F100. The F401 was intended to power the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and Rockwell XFV-12, but the engine was canceled due to costs...
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    its research paved the way toward the later General Dynamics F-111 and Grumman's own F-14 Tomcat. The Navy's interest in the variable-geometry wing was...
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    large US fourth-generation jet fighters such as the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, with 3,530-kilometre (1,910 nmi) range, heavy...
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    operationally, 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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    ECR Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Grumman F-14 Tomcat McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Mikoyan MiG-31 "Variants"...
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    Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II A balloon of the soviet Vega probes to Venus, the first aircraft flown in another planet Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter...
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