What You Need to Know: The F-14D "Super Tomcat" remains a legendary aircraft, known for its enhanced capabilities over earlier F-14 variants. Introduced in 1991, it boasted advanced radar ...

The final variant, the F-14D “Super Tomcat,” introduced in the late 1980s, featured advanced engines, radar, and targeting systems, making it a versatile and powerful platform. -Despite its ...

Though the F-14D Super Tomcat introduced significant upgrades, the Cold War’s end and budget cuts stopped further purchases. -A potential follow-up, the Super Tomcat 21 (ST21), would have ...

The rest is pretty much history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Fair Use) By 2006, the Tomcat had evolved into what would be its apex in the F-14D variant. This type featured a then state-of-the-art ...

The GBU-31 became also one of the principal weapons employed by the Tomcat in Iraq in 2003, with the VF-2 “Bounty Hunters” becoming the first F-14D unit to receive it just before Operation ...

F-14B and F-14D: Two General Electric F110-GE-400 turbofan engines with afterburners Thrust: TF-30P-414A: 20,900 pounds (9,405 kg) static thrust per engine F110-GE-400: 27,000 pounds (12,150 kg ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We were upside down in an F-14D Tomcat, climbing through 10,000 feet on the second half of our dirty double Immelman when the Ft.

We first heard word that the very last F-14D Tomcat ever to fly was moving from its location on display outside Grumman's old headquarters in nearby Bethpage, New York, to its new home at the ...

The F-14D Quickstrike was the first proposal: featuring an enhanced version of the APG-71 radar, this advanced Tomcat version would have carried stand off weapons such as the Harpoon, HARM and ...

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. Parton said the aircraft “had ...

The F-14D’s last combat hurrah took place in a bombing mission carried out by two Super ‘Cats belonging to the aircraft USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) over Iraq on 8 February 2006. The Tomcat ...