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

The F-14 Tomcat, immortalized in the film Top Gun, was a legendary U.S. Navy fighter famed for its blistering Mach 2.34+ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A restored U.S. Navy Grumman F-14 D Tomcat, acquired by the Cradle of Aviation Museum, is ready to roll — literally — after the repair of a pesky flat tire on its main landing gear.

In the 1970s, under the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran sought to modernize its air force and became the only non-U.S. customer for the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

When the U.S. decommissioned the F-14 in 2006, many were dismantled and shredded to prevent hardware from ending up in Iranian hands. Iran was said to have up to 10 F-14s in early 2024, but it was ...