Key Points and Summary - Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat married variable-sweep wings with the Hughes AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to swat bombers at 100+ miles while staying nimble ...
Key Points and Summary - The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat in 2006, closing the book on a fighter that dominated the long-range air-to-air fight and later reinvented itself as a precision striker.