In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy seriously considered replacing its iconic but troubled F-14 Tomcat with a navalized version of ...

What if America’s greatest fighter, the U.S. Navy’s greatest icon, had been scrapped, not for its slowness and clumsiness, but due to a single, persistent engineering flaw? During the 1970s, the F-14 ...

Unlike many fighter jets today, the F-14 Tomcat seated two. That's a feature typically reserved for training models of jets, ...

The plane, the last F-14D Super Tomcat in U.S. Navy service, now occupies F-14 Tomcat Plaza. It sports a Felix the Cat cartoon logo to signify its nickname.

The F-22 Raptor, known for its speed and advanced capabilities, wasn’t the first U.S. fighter to achieve Mach 2.0; the F-14 Tomcat, introduced decades earlier, could reach Mach 2.3.

The F-14 and the Need for Speed The Americans did put their F-14 fleet to use in air-to-air combat. In 1981, two F-14s from VF-41 shot down two Libyan Su-22 fighters over the Gulf of Sidra in the ...

After 36 years of service, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat was retired in September 2006. 13News Now was there at Naval Air Station Oceana to document the aircraft's final flight, as Hampton Roads bid ...

Despite their "Top Gun" fame, the United States decommissioned the last of its F-14 Tomcats in 2006. But Iran had them, and kept flying them. Here's why.

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 ...