It's old, but definitely a great one. I grew up outside of Oceana, and I remember many nights going outside when my mom left for work at night watching the glow of afterburners from the F-14.
Fuck you, and if you ever say she was ONE OF again, I will come to your house and slap you silly. She was the best and I wish I'd been alive to fly her.
That is raw brute power. Most people don't realize, it pulled very high-G turn sustained in full afterburner followed by a vertical climb in full afterburner up to 45,000+ feet. That is insane and brutal amount of thrust from the GE-F110 engines.
I was there that evening, videotaped this as well. That was one hell of fly over that I'll never forget. Luv the Tomcat. I'll be back at Oceana this wkend for the 08 show!
I absolutely love how when the first claps happened every other aviation fan just joins in and it was like a sporting event where they just let loose and enjoyed the moment.
Actually the F-14 was replaced just for his lack of versatility (and because of his astronomical cost). F-18 can do more with less. But surely as interceptor the Tomcat remains unparalleled, at least in the Navy. One of the best fighters of all times, without doubt.
@@andreabindolini7452 F-18 could not do more. F-14 did pretty much everything better than the F-18 except ease of flying/slow speed nose authority and cheaper cost. F-18 was a laggard by comparison. F-14 ran circles around it in the same mission performance. F-14 was superior in most ways. You talk speed, acceleration, power/thrust, payload, range, combat radius, legs, fuel, climb rate, radar capabilities (BVR), flexibility of platform (how many combination of missiles that F-14 could carry), turn rate or energy addition rate. F-14 was superior in all of these ways. It cost more to fly, but it was way more capable as well. F-14 could go Mach 2+ with Phoenix missiles, AIM-9, AIM-7 and guns with full fuel while the F-18 could not even get to Mach 1 due to the high drag airframe and lack of thrust from the tiny motors.
@@2ZZGE100 "F-14 could go Mach 2+ with Phoenix missiles"? No. Never got a chance. The flight manual for F-14B clearly states that top speed with Phoenix is somewhere between mach 1.6 and 1.7, at high altitude and with full afterburner - a flight profile very different from real combat conditions. F-14A is even slower. server.3rd-wing.net/public/Ked/natops%20F14B.pdf For comparison, the F-15 with a full complement of four Sparrow/Amraam and four Sidewinder has a top speed around mach 1.7 (source: NASA), and the F-14 is not faster and has an inferior ceiling.
@@andreabindolini7452 Depends on how many Phoenix missiles. Phoenix missiles were very heavy. Each one of them weighed 1000 lbs and their railings were 500 lbs. With the 4 AIM-7, 4 AIM-9 and 1 or 2 AIM-54, it was proven to go Mach 2.0+ in testing according to a test pilot. That was Navy's long range intercept missions requirement. F-14's missiles were tucked underneath the tunnel so they had the least drag penalty possible due to being tucked in. F-14 did not have an inferior ceiling. Just Navy kept it very conservative to preserve the longevity of the airframe just like G-load where NATOPs limited pilots to 7.5g, but pilots regularly did 9.5g in BFM. 'Okie' Nance had F-14A up to 75,000 feet and said it felt totally safe and no issues.
@@2ZZGE100 Resign yourself: no 4th generation fighter can do Mach 2+ in armed configuration and in a real combat flight profile. And even if it can do it, it would be for few minutes (or seconds) because at these speeds, with full afterburner, the fuel consumption is MASSIVE. Consequently, that performance is of little to no tactical utility. Simply put: fighters (at least until 4th generation) aren't built for high supersonic cruise speed. That was the SR-71.
You sir, are correct. The 110 had lines when at full A/B from the flameholder. The 30 just looked like blowtorch. The 30 put out around 20000 pds of thrust at max A/B while the 110 put out 27000 pds of thrust per engine. Clutch I spent 8 years working on those planes and engines. I never saw a zone line in a 110.
The tomcat is a truly beasty plane. The main reason it's retired is only because it's so old and expensive to maintain. But to carry on that kinda legacy for 30 years, or since the cold war?....love^_^ The greatest machine to exist. And the only plane that was scary standing still.
I was there for this. In fact, I must have been pretty close to whoever filmed it. I was a kid watching the F-4's fly in from the carriers over my house in VaBeach but the Turkey is my favorite by far. I don't know much about it, but I always wondered what it would have been like for the Blue Angels to us the F-14. I guess they are to big to do the wing to wing thing.
I worked F14A's and F/A 18 Pre-production at Strike Air Test Directorate and MACAIR FSD in Pax River from 83-86 and the F/A 18 was never a adequate replacement for the F14. The Tomcat was one the best and most versatile cold war birds ever built. That's why she lasted 30+ yrs in service. VF-101, VF-86, USS JOHN F. KENNEDY CV-67 AND SATD. ANYTIME , BABY!
The F-14 was one of the most beautiful jets ever to fly - much better than ANY model of the Hornet. The only reason the F-14 was replaced (in a rather sham way, imo) was cost. The Pentagon would rather save 3 million on an inferior plane rather than go for air superiority. The day I found out the Tomcat was retiring, I cried, because my boy-hood dream to fly one of those magnificent birds, I knew, was over. Tragedy, I know, but I wished nothing more when I was younger. Beautiful jet!
How beautiful! I grew up here (born in Norfolk while in Ben Morell Housing which was Enlisted mens' housing) on Hampton Blvd. in 1957. I attend every Air Show! And i never saw a craft that beat out our Super-Toms, for me. Am headed today to the 2010 Air Show in just a few minutes now. :)
She was put on display at NAS entrance. Along with her retired --parents&grandparents. - I never forget F 14. & F4 phantom noise. I Grew up listening to wonderful jets at tree top level in 70s&80s. .was not noise to a little kid like I was then. It was Awesome. Salute the other jets.but they has distinct sound.
Well, this pass was done at Virginia Beach, only a few miles from NAS Oceana, where that Tomcat flew from. I had the great fortune to see this in person. Last time, baby!
I got to video tape one of the last Tomcat demonstrations at Pensacola NAS during a November Blue Angels homecoming show back in the early-mid '00s. Unfortunately that S-VHS tape was recorded over by my girlfriend at the time. But I was the idiot for 1), not labeling it, and more importantly 2), not popping the recording tab out and putting the cassette away in a safe place to later be burned to DVD and share when the technology caught up. I was so pissed when I found out. Thank God for YT.
Which makes sense! I never hear anyone from Russia or anywhere get on there and talk trash about this fighter like they will others! They can talk about this and that, but they never seem go off on the F14 and say this or that, it's like they know better! This is their daddy. This is one of the best Jets ever built, period.
Raised in So California saw f-14's every year at airshows the best was 2 was at NAS and at the Salinas airport small airshow and 2 were brought in for the show. When they did their demo flight they were so loud all you could hear was car alarms going off all over the city. I read later in the newspaper that some windows got broken some residents were complaining about the noise this was around 1990-92 cant remember the exact dates. The Tomcat was the best there ever was too bad it's gone now.
Yeah that's a legend, but to come in here and down the Tomcat is rediculous! one of the best machines and most feared ever! PERIOD. Both of them are two of my fave jets ever! The 14 and 15, don't down one prop the other though, no need for that they are both two of the best to EVER DO IT, nobody could see them in their days.
I agree mate. No other aircraft could protect a carrier fleet with the range that the F-14 could. That's what it's specialty was. Protecting the fleet. All honour & respect goes to the cat from here too brother.
@TheScrumpty 100% correct. The GE-F110-400s truly made the Tomcat into the fighter it was designed to be from the start. With P&W F119s or F135s the tomcat would have continued to dominate the skies along with the F-15C/E. Regardless, an airframe should not be judged by its engines, and the Tomcat was and still is in many respects ahead of its time. The F-18 is a solid multi-role AC, but the E/F is a steroid monstrosity that has wore performance than the F-18C, that is a fact.
@flamingarse1 1,500-600 Nautical Miles. Not sure if that's with Fuel Tanks or not. Got to think if they get to a good altitude, maintain average throttle/power that would make things better. In the video "Tomcats last cruse" or something similar, the Tomcats flew for 8 hours only being air refueled 2 times.
@TheScrumpty great, well I understand tooling for the F-14 was destroyed in the early 90s. The last one built was in 1992. So if you're suggesting that we keep F-14s in service as the Navy's premier fighter for the 21st century well after the tooling to create new airframes/parts no longer exists instead of developing a new airframe would be pretty nuts if you ask me.
That'd be good. I'll go for a peak if they come to Sydney mate. It's really frustrating, you know. It's not like we can't afford it, or we can't get hold of the Raptor if we really want it. The USAF see massive benefit in a couple of squadrons of Raptors sitting in this part of the world. Apart from us showing them how to fly them properly as we've done with the F-18's and the F-111's.
The Aim-54 is unique to the Tomcat. Brilliant piece of kit. Bloody expensive, though. That's why you don't fire them off at will. It could lock on to and kill up to 6 enemy aircraft at once with AWAC integration. Brilliant. No other aircraft till now, the Raptor & the soon to be JSF, can do that mate. It's a specialty.
@TheScrumpty yeah, I'm saying the F/A-18 can perform the missions the Navy needs to perform now and in the future for much cheaper than it can with the F-14. Reduced enemy threat from the air against the fleet, smaller budgets, and the F/A-18's relative ease in maintenance means meeting current and projected demand and maintaining readiness is less demanding with the more cost-efficient F/A-18.
But you're right, the Super Hornet's the plane the Navy needs now. It's a more efficient design than the F-14 on many levels. It can defeat anything the enemy has and do so with less resources; making it more effective than the F-14 in that sense.
The F-35c is likely to not enter service considering the Pentagon's budget cuts and besides the F-35c was not designed to replace the Tomcat but to replace the aging F/A-18c Hornet. The F/A-18e Super Hornet,which WAS designed to replace the F-14, is based on the F/A-18c Hornet. VIVA LA TOMCAT!!!!!
I agree mate. We've ordered the bloody Super Hornet as a gap fill until the F-35 becomes available. It's supposed to replace our F-111 strike capability - yeah right!! I just think that air warfare is changing. And carriers, in their current format, will become redundant for a number of reasons. Why have them if you don't need them? The USAF can hit anywhere in the globe with B-1B's & B-2's out of Guam for Christ's sake. All within 30 hours of being given the go-ahead and taking off. Nice.
the f14 have the MSP.that automatically swept the wings depending on the energy state. but the pilot can override the sistem if he wants regardles the energy state.btw the MSP start to truly operate over 0,6 mach.
Yeah but I think the F-14 is a lot more expensive to build/buy than F18 so I think that had a major role in the decision to retire the Tomcat. Too bad..
The Super Hornet will take over the fleet defense role quite well. BARCAP F-18E or F Hornets will be armed with the newest version of the AMRAMM which has an underclassified range of 112 miles. This lethality range is not quite what the AIM-54 was, but the missile is far more agile and can successfully engage both large bombers and nible strike fighters. The AIM-54's inability to turn sharply to engage a target means to me that the new AMRAMM may be better suited for fleet defense.
Super Hornet cannot come close to that raw thrust, power, speed, legs, ability to touch the enemy far out of the range of the enemy. Also, the energy addition rate on Tomcat was insane. 15 years on, it is a known conclusion.
@Get1337 The F-14 was the fastest fighter aircraft in the US armed forces arsenal, however it was outgunned and out maunevered by the F/A-18, plus it eats gas like crazy.
I never said it was only intended to kill long range bombers but if you knew anything about the Tomcat program and the phoenix missile, you would know that they were designed first to kill Russian long-range bombers, not fighters.
@xXF18DarkOWLXx And yeah, after it made it's final pass, it went straight up and never came back down or into view, never even heard it again it went so high then flew west back to the air base
@bobbycv64 F100 indeed made for a big bad and honkin CAT! I was among the very last VF-143 Airframers and may I tell you the tale of one bad ass F-14B her name was 111 thats right..triple stix..she survived AAA over Baghdad and SAMs...she also bore my name cuz I was her PC..this story is losing focus just thought you would like lol.
@dekiplav1 You might be able to find some info about exercises from the late 70s and early 80s about F-14As going up against F-15s. From what I dug up, the Eagles use to spank them until they got the F-14A+(B)
It's old, but definitely a great one. I grew up outside of Oceana, and I remember many nights going outside when my mom left for work at night watching the glow of afterburners from the F-14.
Definitely one of the coolest and most iconic airplanes ever.
Fuck you, and if you ever say she was ONE OF again, I will come to your house and slap you silly. She was the best and I wish I'd been alive to fly her.
@@synthwavecat96 I thought you Were hating it, this plane is majestic
there's not too many jets on earth that can go vertical and just keep on going. the thrust of the f-14 was always incredible.
That is raw brute power. Most people don't realize, it pulled very high-G turn sustained in full afterburner followed by a vertical climb in full afterburner up to 45,000+ feet. That is insane and brutal amount of thrust from the GE-F110 engines.
Climb like the shuttle baby! Why? Because we can.
One of a kind airplane that'll never be replaced
I was there that evening, videotaped this as well. That was one hell of fly over that I'll never forget. Luv the Tomcat. I'll be back at Oceana this wkend for the 08 show!
I absolutely love how when the first claps happened every other aviation fan just joins in and it was like a sporting event where they just let loose and enjoyed the moment.
youll never see an aircraft as beautiful as that ever again. Im gonna miss that tomcat
This made me sad - but thank you for capturing this
The F14 will never be topped for versatility. It served it's role and more. This and the F4 Phantom are the sexiest aircraft to my eyes.
Actually the F-14 was replaced just for his lack of versatility (and because of his astronomical cost). F-18 can do more with less. But surely as interceptor the Tomcat remains unparalleled, at least in the Navy. One of the best fighters of all times, without doubt.
@@andreabindolini7452 F-18 could not do more. F-14 did pretty much everything better than the F-18 except ease of flying/slow speed nose authority and cheaper cost. F-18 was a laggard by comparison. F-14 ran circles around it in the same mission performance. F-14 was superior in most ways. You talk speed, acceleration, power/thrust, payload, range, combat radius, legs, fuel, climb rate, radar capabilities (BVR), flexibility of platform (how many combination of missiles that F-14 could carry), turn rate or energy addition rate. F-14 was superior in all of these ways. It cost more to fly, but it was way more capable as well. F-14 could go Mach 2+ with Phoenix missiles, AIM-9, AIM-7 and guns with full fuel while the F-18 could not even get to Mach 1 due to the high drag airframe and lack of thrust from the tiny motors.
@@2ZZGE100 "F-14 could go Mach 2+ with Phoenix missiles"?
No. Never got a chance.
The flight manual for F-14B clearly states that top speed with Phoenix is somewhere between mach 1.6 and 1.7, at high altitude and with full afterburner - a flight profile very different from real combat conditions. F-14A is even slower.
server.3rd-wing.net/public/Ked/natops%20F14B.pdf
For comparison, the F-15 with a full complement of four Sparrow/Amraam and four Sidewinder has a top speed around mach 1.7 (source: NASA), and the F-14 is not faster and has an inferior ceiling.
@@andreabindolini7452 Depends on how many Phoenix missiles. Phoenix missiles were very heavy. Each one of them weighed 1000 lbs and their railings were 500 lbs. With the 4 AIM-7, 4 AIM-9 and 1 or 2 AIM-54, it was proven to go Mach 2.0+ in testing according to a test pilot. That was Navy's long range intercept missions requirement. F-14's missiles were tucked underneath the tunnel so they had the least drag penalty possible due to being tucked in. F-14 did not have an inferior ceiling. Just Navy kept it very conservative to preserve the longevity of the airframe just like G-load where NATOPs limited pilots to 7.5g, but pilots regularly did 9.5g in BFM. 'Okie' Nance had F-14A up to 75,000 feet and said it felt totally safe and no issues.
@@2ZZGE100 Resign yourself: no 4th generation fighter can do Mach 2+ in armed configuration and in a real combat flight profile. And even if it can do it, it would be for few minutes (or seconds) because at these speeds, with full afterburner, the fuel consumption is MASSIVE. Consequently, that performance is of little to no tactical utility. Simply put: fighters (at least until 4th generation) aren't built for high supersonic cruise speed. That was the SR-71.
You sir, are correct. The 110 had lines when at full A/B from the flameholder. The 30 just looked like blowtorch. The 30 put out around 20000 pds of thrust at max A/B while the 110 put out 27000 pds of thrust per engine. Clutch I spent 8 years working on those planes and engines. I never saw a zone line in a 110.
Thank you so much for posting... this is one of the memories I cherish so much with my dad.
The tomcat is a truly beasty plane. The main reason it's retired is only because it's so old and expensive to maintain. But to carry on that kinda legacy for 30 years, or since the cold war?....love^_^ The greatest machine to exist. And the only plane that was scary standing still.
ive seen it in person. it would bring a tear to ur eye!
you gotta love those massive burners and that sound.
Truly a spectacle... thanks for sharing this.
yeah. its so powerful i just stand there in awe of it.
I was there for this. In fact, I must have been pretty close to whoever filmed it. I was a kid watching the F-4's fly in from the carriers over my house in VaBeach but the Turkey is my favorite by far. I don't know much about it, but I always wondered what it would have been like for the Blue Angels to us the F-14. I guess they are to big to do the wing to wing thing.
JET NOISE...THE SOUND OF FREEDOM!!!
You must've had a blast watching that!
STILL one of the best...ever!!!
A Pure Gem of a video Steve!
Tomcat F-14, the sexiest, most powerful, most beautiful, most versatile fighter ever built.
Bit of a stretch, but is certainly is a unit
F'n beautiful.
God damn it I miss the Tomcat!
Me too
It flew right into Heaven where it's now perched on the right shoulder of Apollo watching the Soviets burning in hell.
I worked F14A's and F/A 18 Pre-production at Strike Air Test Directorate and MACAIR FSD in Pax River from 83-86 and the F/A 18 was never a adequate replacement for the F14. The Tomcat was one the best and most versatile cold war birds ever built. That's why she lasted 30+ yrs in service. VF-101, VF-86, USS JOHN F. KENNEDY CV-67 AND SATD. ANYTIME , BABY!
one of the coolest tomcat videos i've seen!
The F-14 was one of the most beautiful jets ever to fly - much better than ANY model of the Hornet. The only reason the F-14 was replaced (in a rather sham way, imo) was cost. The Pentagon would rather save 3 million on an inferior plane rather than go for air superiority. The day I found out the Tomcat was retiring, I cried, because my boy-hood dream to fly one of those magnificent birds, I knew, was over. Tragedy, I know, but I wished nothing more when I was younger. Beautiful jet!
How beautiful! I grew up here (born in Norfolk while in Ben Morell Housing which was Enlisted mens' housing) on Hampton Blvd. in 1957. I attend every Air Show! And i never saw a craft that beat out our Super-Toms, for me. Am headed today to the 2010 Air Show in just a few minutes now. :)
crazy afterburner video. The Tomcat will be missed :(
I just happened to be around about 30 of my friends who are all big Tomcat junkies...so that kinda helped...
Love them afterburners! :D
I definately agree
I LOVE THE TOMCAT!!!
Its one of my favorite planes....
Great vid for sure. Love that late afternoon airshow with zone 5 selected! A great plane laid to rest.
Oh happy memories. I was standing at the water
with the hairs on the back of my neck standing to
attention!
Thanks for the vid and Tomcats forever!
I was born 10 years late..
F-14 Tomcat, seen em ,been there and done that! Still the baddest ass machine ever flown!!!
She was put on display at NAS entrance. Along with her retired --parents&grandparents. - I never forget F 14. & F4 phantom noise. I Grew up listening to wonderful jets at tree top level in 70s&80s. .was not noise to a little kid like I was then. It was Awesome. Salute the other jets.but they has distinct sound.
Well, this pass was done at Virginia Beach, only a few miles from NAS Oceana, where that Tomcat flew from. I had the great fortune to see this in person.
Last time, baby!
I got to video tape one of the last Tomcat demonstrations at Pensacola NAS during a November Blue Angels homecoming show back in the early-mid '00s. Unfortunately that S-VHS tape was recorded over by my girlfriend at the time. But I was the idiot for 1), not labeling it, and more importantly 2), not popping the recording tab out and putting the cassette away in a safe place to later be burned to DVD and share when the technology caught up. I was so pissed when I found out. Thank God for YT.
@spectre04 It is the afterburner..
Which makes sense! I never hear anyone from Russia or anywhere get on there and talk trash about this fighter like they will others! They can talk about this and that, but they never seem go off on the F14 and say this or that, it's like they know better! This is their daddy. This is one of the best Jets ever built, period.
I miss the Tomcat. Someday it will be back!
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what a beauty!
I was born in 2000 and this jet is where it thrived in my year of birth
Raised in So California saw f-14's every year at airshows the best was 2 was at NAS and at the Salinas airport small airshow and 2 were brought in for the show. When they did their demo flight they were so loud all you could hear was car alarms going off all over the city. I read later in the newspaper that some windows got broken some residents were complaining about the noise this was around 1990-92 cant remember the exact dates. The Tomcat was the best there ever was too bad it's gone now.
fantastic! love it
LONG LIVE THE KING....
Yeah that's a legend, but to come in here and down the Tomcat is rediculous! one of the best machines and most feared ever! PERIOD. Both of them are two of my fave jets ever! The 14 and 15, don't down one prop the other though, no need for that they are both two of the best to EVER DO IT, nobody could see them in their days.
America ! love it or leave it ...
Man I miss that jet !!
I agree mate. No other aircraft could protect a carrier fleet with the range that the F-14 could. That's what it's specialty was. Protecting the fleet. All honour & respect goes to the cat from here too brother.
Joe Swanson @1:03 😆
awesome vid of a great plane.
That F-14 looks like it almost hit Zone 5 for on the afterburner setting. God I miss that plane.
@hippitheman RIP IS RIGHT, a flat out great plane and one of the best to look at EVER, a true legend of the skies.
@TheScrumpty
100% correct. The GE-F110-400s truly made the Tomcat into the fighter it was designed to be from the start. With P&W F119s or F135s the tomcat would have continued to dominate the skies along with the F-15C/E.
Regardless, an airframe should not be judged by its engines, and the Tomcat was and still is in many respects ahead of its time.
The F-18 is a solid multi-role AC, but the E/F is a steroid monstrosity that has wore performance than the F-18C, that is a fact.
Dude!!! this is awesome, i was fucking there....right under it when it passed between the hotels out to the ocean
I love this plane!
Look at her. She's gorgeous...
one of the best aircraft ever made by the US...still the no.1 in the world....
@flamingarse1 1,500-600 Nautical Miles. Not sure if that's with Fuel Tanks or not. Got to think if they get to a good altitude, maintain average throttle/power that would make things better. In the video "Tomcats last cruse" or something similar, the Tomcats flew for 8 hours only being air refueled 2 times.
Great balls of fire!
@TheScrumpty great, well I understand tooling for the F-14 was destroyed in the early 90s. The last one built was in 1992. So if you're suggesting that we keep F-14s in service as the Navy's premier fighter for the 21st century well after the tooling to create new airframes/parts no longer exists instead of developing a new airframe would be pretty nuts if you ask me.
My best friends Jackson retired from US Navy since the F-14 retired. He flew on that for 20 years, guess he won't like any other fighter jet anymore.
THE GREASET FIGHTER EVER RIP I MISS YOU
That'd be good. I'll go for a peak if they come to Sydney mate. It's really frustrating, you know. It's not like we can't afford it, or we can't get hold of the Raptor if we really want it. The USAF see massive benefit in a couple of squadrons of Raptors sitting in this part of the world. Apart from us showing them how to fly them properly as we've done with the F-18's and the F-111's.
"...and then The Tomcat ascended in to Heaven, body and soul..."
The Aim-54 is unique to the Tomcat. Brilliant piece of kit. Bloody expensive, though. That's why you don't fire them off at will. It could lock on to and kill up to 6 enemy aircraft at once with AWAC integration. Brilliant. No other aircraft till now, the Raptor & the soon to be JSF, can do that mate. It's a specialty.
@TheScrumpty yeah, I'm saying the F/A-18 can perform the missions the Navy needs to perform now and in the future for much cheaper than it can with the F-14. Reduced enemy threat from the air against the fleet, smaller budgets, and the F/A-18's relative ease in maintenance means meeting current and projected demand and maintaining readiness is less demanding with the more cost-efficient F/A-18.
well the fact is that you are right.there is no reason for Phoenix now.i miss the Tomcat
that was my favorite aircraft ....
Nice!!!
That thing loooks soooooo badass!!!!’ 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I wish they at least kept a few in rotation for airshows. I was never able to see one myself. :(
Daaaammmmmnnn youuuuu Maverick!!!!
That's an F-14D though and those GE 110's are beasts.
But you're right, the Super Hornet's the plane the Navy needs now. It's a more efficient design than the F-14 on many levels. It can defeat anything the enemy has and do so with less resources; making it more effective than the F-14 in that sense.
The F-35c is likely to not enter service considering the Pentagon's budget cuts and besides the F-35c was not designed to replace the Tomcat but to replace the aging F/A-18c Hornet. The F/A-18e Super Hornet,which WAS designed to replace the F-14, is based on the F/A-18c Hornet.
VIVA LA TOMCAT!!!!!
I agree mate. We've ordered the bloody Super Hornet as a gap fill until the F-35 becomes available. It's supposed to replace our F-111 strike capability - yeah right!! I just think that air warfare is changing. And carriers, in their current format, will become redundant for a number of reasons. Why have them if you don't need them? The USAF can hit anywhere in the globe with B-1B's & B-2's out of Guam for Christ's sake. All within 30 hours of being given the go-ahead and taking off. Nice.
"Goodnight, Virginia Beach."
...This is Oceana Control we are go for Rocket booster Separation....oh wait thats a TOMCAT SHIT THAT was cool!!!
the f14 have the MSP.that automatically swept the wings depending on the energy state. but the pilot can override the sistem if he wants regardles the energy state.btw the MSP start to truly operate over 0,6 mach.
QUE SHOW!
GREAT SHOW!
Yeah but I think the F-14 is a lot more expensive to build/buy than F18 so I think that had a major role in the decision to retire the Tomcat. Too bad..
The Super Hornet will take over the fleet defense role quite well. BARCAP F-18E or F Hornets will be armed with the newest version of the AMRAMM which has an underclassified range of 112 miles. This lethality range is not quite what the AIM-54 was, but the missile is far more agile and can successfully engage both large bombers and nible strike fighters. The AIM-54's inability to turn sharply to engage a target means to me that the new AMRAMM may be better suited for fleet defense.
Super Hornet cannot come close to that raw thrust, power, speed, legs, ability to touch the enemy far out of the range of the enemy. Also, the energy addition rate on Tomcat was insane. 15 years on, it is a known conclusion.
I truly love this fighter, and I think its better than F18 .
@Get1337 The F-14 was the fastest fighter aircraft in the US armed forces arsenal, however it was outgunned and out maunevered by the F/A-18, plus it eats gas like crazy.
thats a "i dont give a damn i want to go fast" machine, lol
yea .... the Tomcat is a beast. The hornet looks meek next to it ... however, the superhornet is a much more advanced plane.
I never said it was only intended to kill long range bombers but if you knew anything about the Tomcat program and the phoenix missile, you would know that they were designed first to kill Russian long-range bombers, not fighters.
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@xXF18DarkOWLXx And yeah, after it made it's final pass, it went straight up and never came back down or into view, never even heard it again it went so high then flew west back to the air base
Who’s watching in 2018?
I dont know, those Cessna 172's feel pretty quick.🗽
Which is more respectable, the fact that the aviator has to land on a postage stamp or that he has to manage a bunch of sailors in his department too?
@bobbycv64 F100 indeed made for a big bad and honkin CAT! I was among the very last VF-143 Airframers and may I tell you the tale of one bad ass F-14B her name was 111 thats right..triple stix..she survived AAA over Baghdad and SAMs...she also bore my name cuz I was her PC..this story is losing focus just thought you would like lol.
@dekiplav1
You might be able to find some info about exercises from the late 70s and early 80s about F-14As going up against F-15s.
From what I dug up, the Eagles use to spank them until they got the F-14A+(B)