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F-14 Tomcat flight demonstration video . The F-14 Tomcat was designed as both an air superiority fighter and a long-range naval interceptor, [41] [42] [43] which enabled it to both serve as escort attack aircraft when armed with Sparrow missiles and fleet air defense loitering interceptor role when armed with Phoenix missiles. [44]
The F-14 primarily conducted air-to-air and reconnaissance missions with the U.S. Navy until the 1990s, when it was also employed as a long-range strike fighter. [2] It saw considerable action in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and was used as a strike platform in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq until its final deployment with the United States in 2006.
The Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) was a large and sophisticated camera pod carried by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. [N 1] It contains three camera bays with different type cameras which are pointed down at passing terrain. It was originally designed to provide an interim aerial reconnaissance capability until a dedicated F/A-18 ...
He was the first student selected to begin flying the F-14 Tomcat right out of flight school. [2] [3] [7] Snodgrass' callsign in the Navy was "Snort". [3] [9] In 1978 he attended the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, commonly known as "TOPGUN", the Navy Fighter Weapons School. [2] He later became a TOPGUN instructor. [1]
After Burner[a] is a rail shooter arcade video game developed and released by Sega in 1987. [8][9] The player controls an American F-14 Tomcat fighter jet and must clear each of the game's eighteen unique stages by destroying incoming enemies. The plane is equipped with a machine gun and a limited supply of heat-seeking missiles.
1989 air battle near Tobruk. On 4 January 1989, two Grumman F-14 Tomcats of the United States Navy shot down two Libyan-operated Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Floggers which the American aircrews believed were attempting to engage and attack them, as had happened eight years prior during the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident.
Tomcat (also known as F14 Tomcat [2] [5] [6]) is a video game published in 1989 in the UK by Players Software. [7] The game was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum [5] as a budget title. [8] [9] It was also on a Your Sinclair magazine cover tape.
F-14 Tomcat. F-14 Tomcat is a 2001 action video game released for the Game Boy Advance developed by Virtucraft and published by Majesco. It is an enhanced port of Turn and Burn: No-Fly Zone for the SNES. [2] Two other games for the Game Boy Advance, Super Hornet F/A 18F[3] and F24 Stealth Fighter[4] were built on the same game engine.