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- The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American Teen Series fighters, which were designed incorporating air combat experience against MiG fighters during the Vietnam War.
The F-14 first flew on 21 December 1970 and made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), replacing the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the U.S. Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and tactical aerial reconnaissance platform into the 2000s. The Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) pod system was added in the 1990s and the Tomcat began performing precision ground-attack missions.
In the 1980s, F-14s were used as land-based interceptors by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during the Iran-Iraq War, where they saw combat against Iraqi warplanes. Iran claimed their F-14s shot down at least 160 Iraqi aircraft during the war (only 55 of these confirmed, according to historian Tom Cooper), while 16 Tomcats were lost, including seven losses to accidents
The Tomcat was retired by U.S. Navy on 22 September 2006, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Several retired F-14s have been put on display across the US. The F-14 remains in service with Iran's air force, having been exported to Iran under the Pahlavi dynasty in 1976.
Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. Navy sought a long-range, high-endurance interceptor to defend its carrier battle groups against long-range anti-ship missiles launched from the jet bombers and submarines of the Soviet Union. They outlined the idea of a Fleet Air Defense (FAD) aircraft with a more powerful radar and longer range missiles than the F-4 Phantom II to intercept both enemy bombers and missiles at very long range. Studies into this concept led to the Douglas F6D Missileer project of 1959, but this large subsonic aircraft appeared to have little ability to defend itself once it fired its missiles, and the project was cancelled in December 1961.
The Navy was still looking for a long-range defensive aircraft, but one with higher performance than the Missileer. The Navy was directed to participate in the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program with the U.S. Air Force by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
General characteristics
Crew: 2 (Pilot and Radar Intercept Officer)
Length: 62 ft 9 in (19.13 m)
Wingspan: 64 ft 1.5 in (19.545 m)
Swept wingspan: 38 ft 2.5 in (11.646 m) swept
Height: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Wing area: 565 sq ft (52.5 m2) wings only
1,008 sq ft (94 m2) effective area including fuselage
Airfoil:
Grumman (1.74)(35)(9.6)-(1.1)(30)(1.1) root
Grumman (1.27)(30)(9.0)-(1.1)(40)(1.1) tip
Empty weight: 43,735 lb (19,838 kg)
Gross weight: 61,000 lb (27,669 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 74,350 lb (33,725 kg)
Fuel capacity: 16,200 lb (7,348 kg) internal fuel; 2 × optional 267 US gal (222 imp gal; 1,010 l) / 1,756 lb (797 kg) external tanks
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric F110-GE-400 afterburning turbofans, 16,610 lbf (73.9 kN) thrust each dry, 28,200 lbf (125 kN) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2.34 (1,544 mph, 2,485 km/h) at altitude
Range: 1,600 nmi (1,800 mi, 3,000 km)
Combat range: 500 nmi (580 mi, 930 km)
Service ceiling: 53,000 ft (16,000 m) plus
g limits: +7.5
Rate of climb: 45,000 ft/min (230 m/s) plus
Wing loading: 96 lb/sq ft (470 kg/m2)
48 lb/sq ft (230 kg/m2) effective
Thrust/weight: 0.92 at gross weight (1.07 with loaded weight & 50% internal fuel)
Armament
Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61A1 Vulcan 6-barreled rotary cannon, with 675 rounds
Hardpoints: 10 total: 6× under-fuselage, 2× under nacelles and 2× on wing gloves with a capacity of 14,500 lb (6,600 kg) of ordnance and fuel tanks, with provisions to carry combinations of:
Rockets: 7x LAU-10 rocket pods (for a total of 28 rockets)
Missiles: AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles:
Bombs:
JDAM precision-guided munition (PGMs)
Paveway series of laser-guided bombs
Mk 80 series of unguided iron bombs
Mk 20 Rockeye II cluster munition
Other:
Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)
LANTIRN Targeting System (LTS) pod (AN/AAQ-14)
2× 267 US gal (1,010 l; 222 imp gal) drop tanks for extended range/loitering time
Avionics
Hughes AN/APG-71 radar
AN/ALR-67 radar warning receiver
AN/AAS-42 infrared search and track, AAX-1 TCS
AN/ASN-130 Inertial navigation system
Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver (ROVER) upgrade
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This is supposedly a video on the Tomcat, but half of it is the F-35…
Sucks that only 20% of F14s had the upgraded engines. 712 F14s were built, so 20% is only 146 of the 712 built had the great engine that truly made the F14 amazing.
The problem was that the United States was relying on old technology on a modern day aircraft it's kind of like a UFO running on gasoline the plane itself isn't junk it's actually perfect in every way in fact it was the plane that could literally destroy all planes even to this day if they just upgraded it
The real reason why the f-14 was just so expensive that it was basically an UFO running on gasoline had the United States fully developed a nuclear nuclear power plant technology within Detroit we would have had nanotechnology within the f-14 was never designed to be a gas piston rifle in other words the idea having a single action pistol in a modern warfare tech is ridiculous works fine but World War III never happened and sometimes we need to go a little bit more forward the idea that we're running on pure EV technology is a bit of a selling joke
The f 14s were damn good fighting jets.
I am very proud to have started my aviation career as a VF-103 F-14 Airman in 1986. I have been in aviation ever since and have been an F135 (F-35 engine) propulsion engineer for P&W for the past 18 years.
Cool kick ass man 💪🇺🇸
You're a lucky man BK.
I saw my first F-14 fly over head when I was heading to the chow hall at Pax River in 1972. I worked at P&WA in the late 70s. My dad and brother retired from there. A good friend growing up was an engineer and worked his whole career there. His name was Mike Kearney, sadly he died right after retirement.
That’s awesome! I always wanted to be a pilot! Instead I’m a plumber lol. I have a lot of respect for the men and women who fly these things.
@@spfadden082711 You can still be a pilot. The Navy offered to send me to college and become an officer but because of my vision I could never be a pilot with them . I got out and with my training in avionics and electronics I was able to buy a small plane and learn to fly within ten years of getting out.
Thank you for posting ... My favorite fighter aircraft. (as it's been on some of my favorite TV Series to watch) plus I named my second cat after "Tomcat", LOL!
It’s amazing the engineering that doesn’t just go with the plane but also the carrier too.
Yep, I'm so glad I was able to see these take off and land before they were retired. When sitting in the ship's library, you knew when a Tomcat was on the catapult, the whole compartment would vibrate quite vigorously.
The most beautiful aircraft to ever take the skies
So Wise , Thank You . I hope they work and can be produced in numbers RELIABLY.
I think thats the 1st time Ive ever seen a TomCat doing a Traditional Runway Take off!😂
Archers favorite aircraft.
Danger zone!
First time I saw o n e was 1976 in Millington TN. Two flew overhead in the break when I saw the wings sweep I was awestruck.
Most of his stats seem incorrect . He said max speed almost Mach 2 but the cat could go at Mach 2.5. Also he said it has two cannons when it has only one
That’s most of them, is it? Two examples? Make your own video
@@chacaf22 for god sake. Drop it.
The f35 is a good plane but he is right
More like 2.3
@@markcasey2517 if two obvious stats are wrong, doesn’t it make u question what else is?
This needs the soundtrack of "Danger zone" playing in the background! 😆
Still the baddest, meanest, and fastest fighter to rip the skies 💛❤️VF103 sluggers/Jolly rogers!!!
Tomcat was a great looking bird of prey , bet piolets loved it, and Reos loved their job to, Salute to the Tomcat and crews ,from the Piolets to Reos and Matinence. 🇺🇸
I remember the plane crashing in the summer of 1972 when I was at Pax River, Maryland for training.
Most iconic airplane, ever !
F-111. Side-by-side Supersonic. Fun Fun
The F-14 Tomcat was. Designed around the purpose of the Phoenix Weapons System.
USS Constellation's hangar bay had the entire Air Wing stuffed due to heavy sea state. I’m on the prowl for a F14 with a clogged Pitot tube…
The airman’s skull punch was still in the air plane’s speed sensor.
The F-14 was awesome. The FA/-18 cannot compare.
At the time Hornets started replacing this my most beloved of Warbirds the F-18 had 1700 moving parts as opposed to the Cats 6000. Still would rather have Something from the Iron Works on deck ready to Rock.
Had they updated them with new engines, new aesa radar, avionics, computers and electronic warfare suite, the number of parts would have seriously dropped, and the maintenance required would be much less.
Nice antique.
Like many government contracts prior to it, she was hamstrung by the government, through the tf30 engine. Had the navy been able to choose its own engine instead of McNamara choosing the engine it would likely still be flying today
Yes, they definitely screwed it over.
McNamara was a horrible SecDef. Never put a bean-counter at the head of a war department.
Doubt it unless it saw major improvements of the flight controls, avionics. Came ‘close’ with the D, but essentially killed by ‘hornet mafia’…
Flew A and A+….hard to keep up when deployed. Even block 130s(VF-31)….although less trap fuel, F-4 easier to bring aboard, imho. J and S models…VF-33 and VF151.
@@dullonion797 it would have leveled the initial playing field some in the 80s which would have helped
@@squid0013 perhaps but while the USAF saw multiple upgrades to F-16 and F-15, including the really great F-15E…the Turkey languished. Stuck at A model. Again, hurt by Hornet Mafia…it’s history and development also hurt it. Basically an airframe designed around the AUG-9/Phoenix. So much went into that, with an essentially supersonic A-6…poor airframe. Anybody that has tried to fight it has seen things like compressor stalls and flap/slat lockouts. Great fun trying to bring it aboard on small decks(USS Forrestal)…When it was up(only deployed with 9 jets), it did the fleet air defense vs AS-4 shooters(Badger/Bear) well…but…still enjoyed the Phantom at sea much more.
🤨✳️They Absolutely need to produce a New TOM CAT.! Technology has come Leaps and Bounds.! It would be an incredible Platform.!✳️Watched it Fly off the USS Kennedy many times.!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The PW Engine wasn't Grumman's choice. Sec Def McNamara wanted to use a single engine on several aircraft. As noted, several pilot fatalities eventually triggered the replacement of the engines with the higher performance GEs. (ex Grumman flight test systems. )
Phoenix vs the Firebee drone was at the crux of F-14 acceptance in the 1970s. A Mach 2 platform carrying the Phoenix was determined imperative to fleet-defense in consideration of Eastern-Bloc advancements in long-range/high-speed anti-ship missiles.
The longevity of the E-2C Hawkeye deserves special mention. Battlespace awareness trumps kinetics every time. We can always launch faster, further, and more explosive projectiles, but 'targeting' is the "Special-Sauce".
I thought the F-14 was designed specifically to carry the AiM-54 so it could intercept soviet bombers?
General Dynamics did the F111, not Grumman FYI
Another user comments: "Actually General Dynamics teamed up with Grumman for the design of the F111B since they had no experience designing carrier based aircraft. It was then that Grumman used the swing wing technology learned from their team up with GD to build the F14". I will do a more accurate research next time.
F-111 was a General Dynamics aircraft and the F-14 was Grumman's offer to the Navy after they decided not to proceed with the F-111.
Grumman didn't choose the TF-30.. they were obligated to use them..
Sadly the F-14 Tomcat had more engine failures that resulted in crashes than any other military fighter jet in U.S. history.
It was a problem but nowhere close to the most. I was a ASW in SeaHawks in the 90s, I knew the ground crews well. Everything was overblown by pro F-18 crowd. The whole reason they’ve been scrapped is to prevent Grumman’s expansion program, not the Iranians.
@@blueduster74incorrect the f-14 was a beast and the f-18 horn horny cat was nothing more than a pale imitation of the f-15 in fact the f-14 surpass the f-15s joined Strike Eagle for literally 28 years you could say that the F-15 eagle only surpass the f-14 because they were using the same technology of the f-14 and put it in the F-15 instead ironic isn't it they push the f-14 further further for the way so they can make stupid vehicles like the f-18 hornets but in reality when you get the su-35 and su-37 and the su-57 these things are already going to destroy those already F-16 s and yes the F-16 is nothing more than a 1986 relic even those Norwegian Danish and NATO arms aren't going to take down the su-57 that's a joke the Russians has been preparing for war while the rest of the world have been preparing for woke War
If this clip is supposed to be about the F14, why did the last quarter talk about nothing but the F35?
I know!!!
I thought that the F-111 was a General Dynamics design
The top speed was Mach 2.3, and it had one 20mm cannon not two!
Delivered on or before due date at a time when 3-D auto cad didn't exist!
Actually the F111 was build by general dynamics
The information in the documentary is incorrect.
The f111 was developed by General Dynamics not Grumman. Smh
The problems in Tomcat were its engine and losing of hydraulic
@0:01 I used to get excited over the air intakes and custom inlet plenums on R-32/33 Nissan Skylines, Look at those two big thicc b*t*h*s. Great video. As someone that would prefer to be an AH-1Z pilot there is just something mesmerizing about the swept wing design that hits me.
👍👍👍
F35 is such a capable Swiss Army knife type design the trick will be to build lots of them.
Big numbers of these fighters would be devastating against any other Airforce.
Even against 2 adversary nations working together they can't field 700+ front line 5th gen fighters which is what they would be up against with US/NATO.
And allies...
Isn't it's nickname "the fat lady"?.
The F111 was by General Dynamics, not Grumman. This is even stated in the video description. Overall, a rather strange video with some interesting video.
Another user suggests: "Actually General Dynamics teamed up with Grumman for the design of the F111B since they had no experience designing carrier based aircraft. It was then that Grumman used the swing wing technology learned from their team up with GD to build the F14". Thanks for the good observation Peter, I will keep it in mind in the future and be more accurate.
@@Dronescapes Thank you for the quick reply. I wasn't aware of the General Dynamics/Grumman link.
現在のアビオニクスを着けて飛行させるとラプターみたいな飛行できるかも知れないよ‼️笑🤣
1:38 F111 was made by General Dynamics???
F111 was built by general dynamics
didnt realize the F14 was that old.
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Si no hubieran retirado al Tomcat en este momento no existirían el su 33 ruso ni la versión naval del Rafael francés.
Still the coolest jet of all time
The F-14 carried ONLY ONE 6-barreled M-61 Vulcan 20mm cannon and NOT TWO (2) 20 mm cannons for close dogfighting!
I don't know how you missed that, but its really inaccurate as information for your viewers.
Two 20 mm cannons ???
Tomcat for life
Just as a aside, we never had a successful shoot down of a enemy with the phoenix despite multiple launches, Iranians have.
Commenting again, the last place I lived with my family before striking out on my own was mcas Iwakuni, fuck the harrier. If you didn't immediately come to a stop if you were running the seawall before Penny lake on the approach path, the harrier would put you on your face. Violently. Been a long time since my family was stationed at mcas Beaufort, but I'd bet people are beyond thankful that housing for the air station is in Laurel bay, with the fact that flight school for the f35b is on the air station. Even in our house on Laurel bay, every so often I'd have to stop conversations with friends outside because of loud hornet passes, which I'm sure some were done specifically as I lived in officer housing, and quite a few of my neighbors were hornet drivers. Don't know how Dad didn't lose his mind like he did on Iwakuni with the harrier pad directly across from his shop.
Please do better research when you come out with these videos about the military aircraft
Navy Carrier Steam Catapult = Hand launched Rc Aircraft
I say as an Iranian
Without Tomcat, Iran faced many problems in the war with Iraq. Whatever Saddam Hussein brought from the former Soviet Union (types of Sukhoi, MiG and even MiG-25, even French Mirages and Super Thunder, etc.), they did not oppose Tomcat. that Iran had problems in supplying parts and missiles of Off-14).
Curse Khomeini and the Soviet spies who brought Iran to this calamity
TOP GUN...CAPTAIN MAVERICK
Navy should design F-14’s 5th Gen version the F-24 Stealth Cat.
F-111= general dynamics not grumman
Actually General Dynamics teamed up with Grumman for the design of the F111B since they had no experience designing carrier based aircraft. It was then that Grumman used the swing wing technology learned from their team up with GD to build the F14.
The star of "Top Gun" and flagship fighter of Ace Combat 5: Unsung War.
All I heard was (Do you want to go faster?). Then the inverted scissors and grabbed the puke bag without the oxygen mask on. (Not that newbie.)
Thankfully no nut November is still a month away bc that intro made me… well… you know 🎉
O quién sabe......
We don't sell the F22 raptor for obvious reasons but we sell the F35 which is insane, keep the top fighters for our own. 🙏🇺🇸
"With nine countries involved in its development (United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Australia), the F-35 represents a new model of international cooperation." It's joint venture programe. Not United States like F22.
We just gonna ignore the floating person at 4:23 ?
There isn’t anyone in the water at 4:23
Merica....
Mach 2+??? Hard to believe an aircraft with so many drag points could be so fast!
Fly Navy.
F-35 is ah joke compare to the f-14
f35 vtol is a copy of the russian design
For some reason Grumman was never a darling of the government even though like chance vought
Clearly made the best fighter planes for our country
The f15 is hailed and promoted as the best for decades
But let's be clear IT WAS NEVER BETTER THAN THE F14 WITH PHOENIX MISSILES
The f15 had no amram missile for years
We could have had the super tomcat
At a 10th of the price of the f22
Not to mention the yf23 black widow a vastly superior stealth plane much much faster both super tomcat and yf23 than the f22 and f15
Never would have needed the flop f35 a trillion dollar bust our pilots call FAT AMY because it's a useless dogfighter
It's amazing how politics screws us on so many different levels
in dust free evenrirfments all the time