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

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, ...

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 ...

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 Super ...

The year 1996, a decade before the F-14 Tomcat would be retired, marked the final flight of the A-6 Intruder. Interestingly, after the service of the A-6 was completed, a large group of sanitized ...

A US Navy F-14A in flight in 1987 (Photo: NARA). The F-14 Tomcat was created in the early 1970s, thanks to lessons learned by the United States in aerial combat during the Vietnam War and in order to ...

The F-14 Tomcat symbolizes American air superiority, birthed out of the need in the Cold War struggle to deal with advancements made in Soviet long-range patrol and bomber aircraft. Grumman’s ...