F-14 Tomcat the Greatest Fighter Jets of All Time

In this episode, we are going to talk about the story of F-14 Tomcat. Is Tomcat really retired? and why everyone still love it? After more than three decades in service with the United States Navy. However, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat’s demise has left gaps in the carrier air wing that are only now being felt. Designed to incorporate the air combat experience learned during the Vietnam War, the F-14 was the first of the American “Teen Series” fighters that included the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F/A-18 Hornet. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was originally designed to serve aboard U.S. Navy carriers, where they would be the first line of defense against Soviet nuclear bombers. As such, the F-14 was built not just to fight, but to cover great distances at a high rate of speed so they could rapidly close with approaching bombers, hold their own against fighter escorts, and prevent Soviet nuclear weapons from ever reaching U.S. shores. Fortunately, nuclear war never came, and after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Tomcat’s expensive maintenance started to seem a bit less worthwhile. The U.S. Navy eventually decided to phase the F-14 out in favor of the F/A-18 Hornet, an aircraft that emphasized ground engagement, rather than air superiority.

In fact, several different “Super Tomcats” were proposed to the Navy that would have thoroughly modernized the aging avionics and made it fully capable as a multirole fighter. One variant, the Attack Super Tomcat 21, would even have featured an advanced AESA radar, vector-thrust engines, and the ability to super cruise at Mach 1.2 that is, sustain flight speeds over the speed of sound without using the afterburner.

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