US military aircraft played a pivotal role in the Gulf, ensuring air superiority and executing precision strikes in hundreds ...

but rather by the IRIAF during the Iran-Iraq War The fourth-generation Grumman F-14 Tomcat is one of the most famous American-made jet fighter aircraft of all time, thanks to both the “Top Gun ...

Arguably the most iconic and beloved jet of naval aviation, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the Navy’s fastest and highest performance jet to ever fly off the boat. Even to this day, the F/A-18E/F ...

Arguably the most iconic and beloved jet of naval aviation, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the Navy’s fastest and highest performance jet to ever fly off the boat. Even to this day, the F/A-18E/F Super ...

(iv) This was the first generation of fighter aircraft developed with some stealth features. — Examples: Grumman F-14 ‘Tomcat’, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, McDonnel Douglas (later Boeing) F ...

Thus, the Air Force opted to purchase General Dynamics’ YF-16 that ultimately became the F-16 Falcon, which is likely the ...

The F-14 Tomcat is remembered for it's important Navy role during the 1980s and 1990s. However, few people are aware of the brief role it played in the Vietnam War. We look at Operation Frequent Wind, ...

Before getting into the weeds of what each generation entails, two points to be noted. First, the notion of aircraft generations came up only in the 1990s. It has thus been retrospectively applied to ...

Known as the ‘Tomcat,’ the F-14 is a carrier-capable twin-engine supersonic fighter jet with a variable-sweep wing design. It first deployed with the US Navy in 1974 aboard the USS Enterprise as a ...