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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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  • 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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    lighter Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which carried over the AWG-9 radar/Phoenix missile system, engines, and a similar swing-wing configuration. The F-111B was...
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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 has been used...
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    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 the...
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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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    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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    Intruder and E-2 Hawkeye and in the 1970s with the Grumman EA-6B Prowler and F-14 Tomcat. Grumman products were prominent in several feature movies including...
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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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    missiles and AWG-9 radar developed for the F-111B were used on its replacement, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The Tomcat was large enough to carry the AWG-9 and...
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    included the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which they flew until transitioning over to the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Fighter...
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    (TARPS) was a large and sophisticated camera pod carried by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It contains three camera bays with different type cameras which...
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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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    (AEW) aircraft and its C-2 Greyhound derivative. Another Grumman naval aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat, had variable-sweep wings that could be swept between 20°...
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    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 and...
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    was commonly used in conjunction with Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, monitoring airspace and then vectoring Tomcats over the Link-4A datalink to destroy...
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    On 4 January 1989, two Grumman F-14 Tomcats of the United States Navy shot down two Libyan-operated Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Floggers which the American...
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    program to replace the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, resulted in additional fighter capability being added to A-X, which was then renamed A/F-X. Amid increased budget...
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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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  • 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 and...
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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 involved...
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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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    Corsair II, and the remaining McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs, and to complement the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. Vice Admiral Kent Lee, then head of Naval Air...
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    powerful TF41 for the A-7D, as did the USN, for its similar A-7E. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat with the TF30-P-414A was underpowered, because it was the Navy's...
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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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    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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    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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  • The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American jet fighter aircraft. F14, F.XIV, F.14 or F-14 may also refer to: Curtiss XF14C, a 1941 American naval fighter...
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    the competition was won by another variable-geometry design, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. One outcome of the visit was a twin-engined two-seat Mirage G5 study...
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  • Beretta 3032 Tomcat, a pistol Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a fighter aircraft Kawasaki Tomcat ZX-10, a motorcycle Rover 200 Coupé, a car TOMCAT/SLIMCAT, a chemical...
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