Key Points and Summary - Fifty years after its 1974 debut, the F-14 Tomcat's philosophy still defines air superiority. -Its "unmatched" 1,841-mile range and, most importantly, its AN/AWG-9 radar ...

The United States sold Iran 80 of its F-14s in the 1970s. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the regime somehow kept the fighter flying for decades.

Ultimately, the economics of the mighty F-14 no longer made sense in the post-Cold War unipolar era. For a generation, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat defined American naval airpower. With swing wings, twin ...

Developed in the late Cold War to counter Soviet threats, including the Tu-95 bomber and long-range anti-ship missiles, the F-14 was the Navy’s answer for a specific set of needs: long endurance, a ...

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

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