the f-14 is like a 1966 mustang. yeah there is more technology out there some where in a new plane, but for the looks, the speed, and the power. you get the f-14 tom cat
Oh and the f18? Really? The only reason I have a likeness for that jet is because of the blue angels. Now please, stop trying to start a big argument with me, sorry you're so bitter the f14 has fallen in time.
You named one yourself, and yet you act like im bad mouthing this jet yet I passionately love it. Im not about to get into a youtube battle over this, Im not happy with it having happened, but its the way the world works.
@TheScrumpty the only way to do so is with better missiles, if you alter the f14 otherwise they would no longer have an f14. As much as I love these jets, they have developed quicker and more agile jets, and that's why I say fallen with technology...I would give anything to own an f14 just to aw at it...
@rangerxlt91 what quicker more agile jets are you referring to? If it is the F/A-18 legacy or SH, it is neither quicker or more agile than the F-14. The only advantage the SH has is more modern avionics and if the F-14 had received its upgrades like it should have it would not have that as an advantage. The F-14E would be double of the F-14D and the SH can only do about a third of what the F-14D could do.
@rangerxlt91 so if you can, please name me one single airplane other than the raptor that is more agile or maneuverable than the tomcat, keeping in mind that saying the f-15 is not exactly true as both of those are equally as agile and maneuverable as the other, and technology is not any reason to have gotten rid of an airframe that had plenty of technology upgradablity left in it, and had way more than enough room in it to fit it.
I'm not in the military and don't know the reasons or excuses for scraping the F14 Tomcat. She is the most beautiful fighter plane ever. She's like the muscle car of planes. Beauty, power, strength, dependable, flexibility. Wish she was still flying!!! I read on Wikipedia that Iran and some other Muslim countries are using them. GOD, I pray that don't come back to bite us in the ass!!!
There ain't nothing better than those red hot tail pipes screaming get you some. I'm sorry our government decided to retire one of the tuffest fighters we have in our arsinal. The F14 will be in my heart one of the baddest boys in the neighbour hood.
geez! how i wish i had the chance to pilot one of these. its a beautiful plane,
what i dont get is why they retired them, if the maintence was to much maybe invest in new engines and electronics instead of wasting billions of dollars in developing new aircraft?
@RebelDawg0291 the maintenance was the EXCUSE for getting rid of tomcat, yes it did require more man hours to maintain than hornet, but all of tomcats parts were already paid for long ago, but man hours do not cost the navy any more than the hornet, naval personell are all paid a salary, weather they work for 160 hours a month or they work 320 hours a month, so the maintenance, "PROBLEM" was nothing more than an EXCUSE, and yes superhornet is far more expensive and not nearly as capable.
Why do you think not much popped off during her rein?FEAR BABY...ANYTIME BABY wasnt just a sloagon,that was for real real.Our enemies new we could have a fully loaded F-14 DEMON KILLER at thier doorstep,anytime baby.Thrusting to prat engines spitting bye at 1000.500 and some change miles per hour for some seek and destroy action!Yeah BABY.
@eatthisvr6 ok good to know... the last article/video (not sure, it was some time ago) I found that F-15 proven to be still very good fighters blablabla and will remain in service; but it could be a misleading one. For me neither f-18 nor f-22 will replace tomcat
@makemap yes F-14 was replaced by F-22 raptor... and from military point of view there is no sence to copy replaced jet, however if Chinese will copy them another reason to become a millionaire and buy one just for yourself ;)
yeah I knew that... that's the reason why all US F-14 were shredded to pieces (no spare parts for Iran)
@viktordubec the f22 has nothing to do with the f14 (the f22 will replace the f15) the f18 replaced the tomcat (the tomcat is an epic plane the hornet is a bit meh)
@FellowPazzini23 part of it is down to wingtip vortices and part of it - the big cloudy part - down to the shockwave compressing the condensate in the air around the plane.
@FellowPazzini23 it is not smoke it is water vapors from the moisture in the air when it is maneuvering, as the plane pulls G's, the air on top of the plane is subject to severe turbulence, and as that happens suddenly the moisture in the air becomes visible.
Search FlightGear on google if you want to fly a F-14 in a flight simulator. It is a open source flight simulator and it's totally free to download. Search them on face book, they have a page there. Really awesome flight sim, most realistic sim, you can launch your F-14(among many authentic aircraft) from a carrier ship, all the bells and whistles work on the plane, makes you feel like a real pilot...lol. Real world mapping and airports. check it out.
this is the prettiest american plane ever built, and one of the best in the world. it surely pains to see dozen of them in iranian hands. forgive for my english, but i dont "giva a fack"
@jasper5554 the Su-27 was based off of the F-14. that is how much the Russians feared the F-14. And no it isnt more maneuverable than the F-14. IF the Turkey got it's upgrades like it should have, even now the Russians would still be playing catch up to the Cat.
One word for this plane ...BEAST!!! Everything about it is raw mental power...Tom Cruise is a nut-case but ever since I saw Top Gun ive been in love with the F14...Others have come but imo none can beat the Tommy 'C' for pure style...If it was a car it would be a Rolls Royce with a Formula 1 engine in it.
@USSWISCONSIN64 These F-14s look good in movies only, with actors flying the mockup plane and chewing gums as if they had built the plane by themselves. In real life, the Russian aircraft are much superior to these models, barring the F-22 which has stealth and speed.
@IronManu77 the F-22 is a POS, it does have amazing manuerverability, but it is not as stealth as the world is being told that it is, it is a sunny day fighter, and becomes a target when flying in the rain. as far as those russian planes being superior? give me a break, they may be tougher when on the ground, but against an eagle or tomcat, they die like everyone else.
@IronManu77 really? then how come the ones we bought along with the mig 29"s we bought could not beat us in out tomcats or eagle's in ACM excercises? if you can answer me that question, then i may have a moment to think you may have a clue what you are talking about, i flew against both of those aircraft in ACM excercises, a lot of times, and never lost to them.
@TheScrumpty You were sold downgraded versions of those aircrafts, only capable of 20% of what they were capable of doing, and still US jets could surpass the Russian jets by a small margin, so yes, you had an advantage over downgraded versions.
@IronManu77 you really don't have a clue as to what you are talking about do you? downgraded? you are full of it, tiny margin, it was easy beating them, that margin can not even be called a margin, the hornet did better than those planes did against the tomcat. and the ones we confiscated from Iraq after the first gulf war were by no means "DOWNGRADED" face it man, the Russian tactical aircraft are still trying to catch up with what the United States built in the 1970's, and we already moved on.
@TheScrumpty Just out of curiosity, since it's apparent you do know your stuff, what do you think about the current state of our Military and the use of their money to buy such planes like the JSF, F-22, and hell even the Hornet? I've read countless times that the Tomcat was much better than the F-18, but I never knew if that was true. The JSF is already looking like the next big POS like the cRaptor is.
@rex3453 so do you really want to know what i think? well i walked away from a 20+year career as a naval aviator, while being offered a promotion to captain and command of my own airwing because i absolutely refuse to go out to sea with only the F/A-18 to protect the battle group, and i refuse to fly into combat in the F/A-18, the F-14 was a true air superiority fighter, like the F-15 is, the F-22 has not proven anything except that it can only fly during nice sunny days or star filled nights.
@rex3453 but if you really do want to know, what i think, about how our most effective weapons systems are being replaced by less capable ones which are far more expensive, is effectively gutting our military and providing our enemies with easier targets to which to attack us, and taking away from our men doing the fighting the tools they need and want to do our fighting for us, i will talk, but if you are going to tell me that i dont know what i am talking about, or ridicule me, please dont
@TheScrumpty Nah, again it is very apparent that you do know your stuff. I've talked to many NCO's and CO's my father (whom served 28 years in the USAF) and they ALL agreed and said basically the same thing you just did.
@TheScrumpty Initially I did not, but I just wanted to know if an old timer like yourself shared the same opinions with the other old timers I've talked to.
@rex3453 well if you want to know if i think the F/A-18 superhornet is a huge waste of money, then yes i do, if you want to know if i think the F-22 is an even bigger waste of money, i most certainly do, was the F-14 far superior to the hornet, absolutely in every way easily performance wise, do i think that the already paid for research and development for the quickstrike tomcat should have been chosen over superhornet, hell yes i do. am i shamed about our leadership, absolutely yes i am.
Look at the F22, they are getting ready to scrap for the F-35. They should just scrap that for the UAVs.
Manned aircraft are a thing of the past and I am glad to at least worked on the F14 in the Navy on CV64.
What a lot of these knuckleheads don't understand is the F14 was developed against ANYTHING. Phoenix AIM-54 - I dare you to put one on a F16, let's try 6. F14 were aces the minute anything started.
@bobbycv64 i may be just a dumb old tomcat pilot but i don't think manned fighters are anywhere near being a thing of the past, the tomcat was a purebred fighter, where the hornet is nowhere close to being a fighter, i agree with you that the F-35 is a huge mistake, and the fleet was secure with the tomcat, something which can not be said today under the small umbrella of the hornet, the tomcat can not be replaced easily.
I always l;oved the way it looked. Very agressive looking. And barnew wallis swing wings. The US had faith in Barnes Wallis idea when the Brits were only warm to it.
It does seem like a vast aircraft for a fighter though. It must dwarf the Typhoon or?
@TheScrumpty well the tomcat has a large radar cross section while the super hornet has a very small one the super hornet also has AESA witch the f-14 lacks plus the new aim-120d has the same range as the aim-54,
@nick74178ify I guess i should not be surprised that your information is way wrong, first off yes the tomcat did have a larger RCS than the hornet, but the E model would have had a much smaller RCS than the hornet, no the tomcat did not have the AESA, do you even know what that is? the E model tomcat would have had it also, the tomcat also carried the AIM-120D, and no it did not have anywhere near the range of the phoenix, AIM 120d range is about 55 nm, AIM 54c 165nm learn your facts.
@nick74178ify and that is not the question that i asked you about, with the exception of the F-15 which is as equal in every way to the tomcat, and the F-22 which nothing can match, name one fighter plane that is more maneuverable or agile than the tomcat? that was the question, and anything the SH can be equipped with, so can the tomcat. the SH is not 1/4 as capable as the A model tomcats, let alone the D model tomcats, and would probably be about 1/10 as capable as the E model if it was built.
the f-14d did not carry amraam missiles it used them for testing but the navy never installed the gear to carry them go look it up, Its impossible for the f-14 to carry the aim-120D since the fist aim-120D just went in to service in 2012 the f-14 was retired in 2006 so i caught you lying. And the SH has a 0.93 thrust to weight ratio while the f-14 only has 0.91 the SH has a better thrust to weight ratio and the f-14 has a 113lbs wing load while the SH has 94lbsthe SH has more maneuverability
@nick74178ify you did not catch me lying what are you talking about, the F-14 did carry the amraam, not the D model of the amraam, but it did carry the A and B models, and if still in service it would have carried the D models, and it is just like an inexperienced person to not know that a T/W ratio does not mean as much as they think it means, that incledes you, wing loading is another one of those useless statistics, the SH can only dream of being able to beat tomcat in ACM.
The f-14 can pull 6.5 G while SH can do 7.5G and send me the links that would say the f-14E would have AESA radar and a lower RCS then the SH with. I doubt that since the F-14 is huge not much you could do to get a 25m2 jet below the 0.1m2 of a SH. And a AESA is a radar it uses Tr modules that has no moving parts, its faster and has better resolution and more memory space as well it is LPI, cant be jammed, can act as a RWR, and can be uses as a jammer.
@nick74178ify both the F-14 and F-18 can pull more than 7.5g's, the tomcat can pull 5.4 and the hornet can pull 8.8 if the airframe is under 5,000 flight hours, after 5k hrs the limit is 8.4 till 1k hrs and after 10k it drops to 7k, tomcats with excess of 60k hrs were still able to pull 8.4. and every tactical aircraft since 1961 has been built with RWR, just in case you did not know that, AESA has nothing to do with that, and i do know what AESA is, you can not educate me on this subject.
@nick74178ify now i don't know where you got your way off base numbers, but perhaps you may want to do more research, but then again, any actual information that would help you to win this argument #1 does not exist, and #2 you would not have access to.
As far as i know f-14 did have the a/b aim-120 but i herd the plan to make them its main BVR missile was drooped why i got no clue, Yes RWR are made to track radar signals but i have studied the AESA radar i hope you know it has LPI or low probability of intercept, They change frequencies over a thousand times a second, plus they use frequencies hoping in different directions so RWR have a very hard time finding them. The AESA radar can also act as RWR since it has active arrays.
@nick74178ify ok well it seems to me that you do know a little information, but not nearly enough, and you know next to nothing on how RWR even works, lets start with the AIM 120 A and B models, yes we did carry them on the d model tomcats as a replacement for the sparrow, which you should know had only about a 50% hit/miss ratio, yes the D model AIM 120 would have been carried as well, but it does not go nearly as far as AIM 54 could, only about 1/3 of the distance, and it is not nearly as fast
yes your right the aim-120 was on the f-14 i mixed up platforms sorry. And yes i study BVR i dont really study WVR so i will trust the information you give me. As for the aim-120 a/b they did only have 50% KP but the new aim-120c-7 is said to be 90% and the new D AMRAAM is said to be a bit better. For the record im not a hater of the f-14 i think its one of the greatest aircraft in aviation history.
I may be just a dumb not so old Mig pilot... but... Purebread fighter? Tomcat was just a heavy flyin' platform built for Phoenix missiles. Dog fight in Tomcat must be a horror... Just like trying to fly a huge commode against the agile birds...
@dokomana well you are right to a degree, the A model tomcats were sort of a pain to fly in ACM, because the engines had to be handled carefully, however when the F-110's replaced the TF-30's, flying the F-14 in ACM was incredible and the true potential of the agility the airframe was capable of, started to be realised, the b and d model tomcats were animals in ACM far from a horror that you described, acm in the A model was inconvienient but not a horror.
@dokomana and you are totally wrong about one thing, the tomcat was not developed to be a heavy flying platform for the phoenix missile, it was developed as an air superiority fighter, but it also had the speed to be an interceptor also, and was large enough to fit the phoenix missile weapons system, but first and foremost it has always been a fighter plane.
@kiponline100 They can go right ahead and do some. Their copies will be raped by PAK-FA's, EF Typhoons, F-15C's and F-15SE's and F-22 Raptors :p I love the Tomkitty but I am well aware of its limitations and know it won't stand much of a chance against 5th gen planes like the Raptor.
@sadekgheidan if the F-14 had received the upgrades it was suppose to receive then it could have held its own against the F-22. However Dick Chenney made sure it never received its upgrades so that it was phased out and the NAVY was forced, by him, to take the F-18 that is half of what the F-14 was.
@BBEEAANN1 Oh really? What kind of upgrades would enable the Tomcat to hold its own against the Raptor? Please enlighten me... I am unaware of something like that :\
@BBEEAANN1 I see, you mean the ASF-14? That wouldn't have been an upgrade to existing Tomcats buddy, it would have been a completely new aircraft based off the F-14. An evolution of the Tomcat if you will.
Only if they didn't lobby the superhornet so much :(
@sadekgheidan yeah, the hornet mafia forced the fail F-18 onto the NAVY that didnt want it. Chenney is a douchebag and should be fired. He got pissed because he tried to buy Grumman with a bunch of people and Grumman told them to take a hike. After that he made it so the F-14 didnt get the quickstrike upgrade after 10 years like it should have gotten and kept it from upgrades for 17 years total. That is the only reason we arent seeing hte F-14 still
@BBEEAANN1 Cheney didn't only kill the Tomcat. The reason why the USA will receive only 187 Raptors which is not enough to defend your air-space, is also partly due to that greedy asshole. How I wish I had a chance to see the Tomcat fly =(
@sadekgheidan The US shouldnt have went with the F-22, it is a great fighter but, the YF-23 was better than it and could be modified, in its current configuration for the JSF. If we had the YF-23 we would have an air superiortiy fighter and the JSF all rolled into one. It was better than the 22 in all categories other than slow speed turning, which the F-22 was only slightly better, this going against an aircraft with no TVC and supposedly cost which, I doubt was the case. Grumman has always ..
@BBEEAANN1 and you are right, the hornet was forced down the navy's throat, the navy did not want the plane in 1981, and fought against it, but it did happen to fit the ability to replace the last of the F-4 phantom squadrons, the navy had, all of the phantom squadrons the marine corps had, and it was a very nice replacement for the A-7 corsair as well, but later, cheney forced the hornet to take over all of the airwings roles, even the ones it can never do.
@BBEEAANN1 i am not saying the navy does not need the F/A-18, it does, but it also needs the F-14 and the
A-6 as well, the hornet can not replace either one of these planes, and now is trying to, it is being asked to accomplish the impossible, it will never be able to carry the large ordinance load of the intruder, and it will never be able to defend the fleet and dogfight like tomcat could, it is a light strike plane with a smaller radar signature than the A-7 and is faster than A-7 as well.
@sadekgheidan well the envisioned ASF-14 would have been new airframes, however the basic internal airframe would have remained the same, but all of the systems, wiring, fuel tanks, hydraulics, engines, electronics, and fire control would have been new and cutting edge, the big problem is the f-14 was supposed to get it's b upgrade in 1982, and the d was supposed to be available in 1988, quickstrike was supposed to be ready in 1995 but these were all late, or cancelled before it final death.
@sadekgheidan all of the above, the quickstrike was slated for 3d tvn, and newer engines, with another 14,000 lbs dry thrust each, which would have made the quickstrike all but unbeatable, we routinely held a 25 degree aoa in the D model tomcats, I can only guess that the quickstrike would have been better, and wing position when in high AOA had to be full foward so it could use it's slats, flaps, and spoilers to control it at such slow speeds. but the F-14, was not done showing us it's best
@sadekgheidan The quickstrike and ASF-14 upgrades were based off of the current F-14D as a foundation and the ASF-14 was still going to be using the same configuration. The ASF-14 was redesigned to make F-14 to make it far more maintenance friendly. It also had many changes to the current design to lower its RCS, improve its already great range, modernize its cockpit, give it more ordinance for strike capability, and thrust vectoring. My God, an F-14 with TVC=pwnage
@sadekgheidan well the quickstrike tomcat would have been able to hold its own against the raptor in theory, due to several factors that was planned for the quickstrike version, the raptor has a few major problems, that tomcat would have been able to pick apart with quickstrike, current eagles are starting to find those problems as well, and beggining to hold their own now as well. neither hornet nor falcon will ever stand a chance against the raptor though.
@sadekgheidan however the proposed supertomcat 21 would have been able to easily match and beat the raptor, tomcat was not killed because it was not capable, it was killed by one greedy politician period, the hornet could not and can not do tomcats job, nor will it ever be able to take tomcats place as a great fighter, before my retirement in late 2006 i held an 87% win rate over the hornet/superhornet while flying tomcats, only the very best of the hornet pilots had a chance of beating me.
@TheScrumpty Please don't compare the proposed Tomcat with the Raptor.
if I'm not mistaken, the advanced Tomcat would have been a multirole jet with an emphasis on bombing and intercepting with the F-22 being a purely an air-domination/superiority jet. It would damn sure be able to give the F-22 a run for its money but beating the Raptor? I'm not so sure about that..
You said you held a 87% win rate over bugs/superbugs? What kind of theater were you flying and under what conditions usually?
@sadekgheidan you can read about the proposed Tomcat here...google F-14 Tomcat Replacement Proposals
The ASF-14 was a cheaper proposal to the NATF by Grumman. This was a new aircraft that started with the F-14D as a foundation it would have had a lower RCS , more powerful engines so it could supercruise, thrust vectoring nozzels, modernized cockpit, etc. It would have been able to hold its own with a raptor especially with the radar that was proposed so it could pick up stealth aircraft.
@sadekgheidan it was ACM excercises, such as top gun and red flag, all kinds of conditions were flown in by all of us??????? and believe me when i tell you, the raptor is not as invisible to radar as they want you to believ it is. yes the tomcat was capable of intercepting, but it has from day one been an air superiority fighter, period, it was not till late in it's career that it was tasked with bombing also, due to A-6 retire, and F-18's limited range. but we proved it can bomb well too.
@TheScrumpty According to a F-22 Flyboy I have been talking to for a long time, it's very stealthy (Stealthier than what was required). It's actually so stealthy that Viper and Eagle pilots rather not fight Raptors in simulated combat because they don't stand a chance, even when they outnumber Raptors 6-8 s 2.. So now the Raptor crew puts pods under the F-22's that increase it's RCS to make it a "fair" fight, but still the results are the same. Almost always perfect BVR kills. Forget ECM.
@sadekgheidan guess what, the air force only flys the F-22 when it is sunny outside in those excercises, because when it flies in the rain, it is very visible to radar
@TheScrumpty That's the B-2 and F-117 that you are talking about. They had problems with Rain eroding the tape covering the panel gaps... The Raptor does not have that problem. I thought that you, as a ex-military aviator at least knew that... Or are you being dishonest here?
@sadekgheidan not at all, and it has nothing to do with the rain DEGRADING anything, the paint and radar absorbing materials also absorb water, and when that happens, the surface becomes as easy to see on radar as a polished aluminum surface.
I know you very much love your jet and I do too, but are you seriously implying that it would stand a snowballs chance in hell against the Raptor if the pilots were equally good? Also, what can a Tomcat (or any other plane for that matter) do when it's radar gets fried instead of jammed by the Raptors AGP-77? It's just not a fair fight and I think it will be decided in BVR fairly quickly.
@kiponline100 they would have a very, very hard time coping the F-14 if they ever tried. Till this day certain parts are still a secret and have been destroyed mainly so that Iran doesnt get their hands on it. Iran still have the most F-14 in use today.
Most tanks/planes used by the US and a slew of other countries are 40+ years old, some are the same stuff upgraded to be acceptable on the modern battlefield. The F-14 was a wonderful aircraft, but its retirement was a mistake in my opinion. The F-18 and F-16 are also great aircraft, but lack the speed and maneuverability the F-14 offered with its variable sweep wings and a large amount of hard points for attaching more armaments to compliment its attack role.
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Is it possible to watch an F-14 video WITHOUT that overplayed song from that overrated movie? I would love to hear just the engine noise without anything else in the background.
@HOMEofK1W1 I once heard an interview with a U.S. military pilot on the radio. According to the pilot, the only realistic thing about Top Gun is the singing in the bar.
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adriano71780 1 week ago
Very beautiful machine, what a shame it was decommissioned :(
zx169 1 week ago
the f-14 is like a 1966 mustang. yeah there is more technology out there some where in a new plane, but for the looks, the speed, and the power. you get the f-14 tom cat
SovietHerbivore 1 week ago
Top 5 sexiest jets ever designed:
5.F-16
4.F-15
3.F-22
2.F-117
1.F-14
Megalodon64 2 weeks ago
Oh and the f18? Really? The only reason I have a likeness for that jet is because of the blue angels. Now please, stop trying to start a big argument with me, sorry you're so bitter the f14 has fallen in time.
rangerxlt91 2 weeks ago
You named one yourself, and yet you act like im bad mouthing this jet yet I passionately love it. Im not about to get into a youtube battle over this, Im not happy with it having happened, but its the way the world works.
rangerxlt91 2 weeks ago
I really love its variable geometry wings ! It's freaking awesome !
patriotaRBC 2 weeks ago
@TheScrumpty the only way to do so is with better missiles, if you alter the f14 otherwise they would no longer have an f14. As much as I love these jets, they have developed quicker and more agile jets, and that's why I say fallen with technology...I would give anything to own an f14 just to aw at it...
rangerxlt91 3 weeks ago
@rangerxlt91 what quicker more agile jets are you referring to? If it is the F/A-18 legacy or SH, it is neither quicker or more agile than the F-14. The only advantage the SH has is more modern avionics and if the F-14 had received its upgrades like it should have it would not have that as an advantage. The F-14E would be double of the F-14D and the SH can only do about a third of what the F-14D could do.
BBEEAANN1 2 weeks ago
@rangerxlt91 so if you can, please name me one single airplane other than the raptor that is more agile or maneuverable than the tomcat, keeping in mind that saying the f-15 is not exactly true as both of those are equally as agile and maneuverable as the other, and technology is not any reason to have gotten rid of an airframe that had plenty of technology upgradablity left in it, and had way more than enough room in it to fit it.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
Beautiful beautiful plane.
airtioteclint 3 weeks ago
I'm not in the military and don't know the reasons or excuses for scraping the F14 Tomcat. She is the most beautiful fighter plane ever. She's like the muscle car of planes. Beauty, power, strength, dependable, flexibility. Wish she was still flying!!! I read on Wikipedia that Iran and some other Muslim countries are using them. GOD, I pray that don't come back to bite us in the ass!!!
Glen01n 3 weeks ago
this aircraft is sex on steroids. shes GORGEOUS.
XXINTL 3 weeks ago
it's like the tornado where the wings go back in high speeds
TheLuigiValera 3 weeks ago
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LigerZeroFtw 3 weeks ago
There ain't nothing better than those red hot tail pipes screaming get you some. I'm sorry our government decided to retire one of the tuffest fighters we have in our arsinal. The F14 will be in my heart one of the baddest boys in the neighbour hood.
mmarcum06 4 weeks ago
Beautiful
0402gussan 4 weeks ago
Great plane.....
jamesncaa 4 weeks ago
Ahhh I love these jets....fallen to the way of technology :(
rangerxlt91 4 weeks ago
@rangerxlt91 technology would only have made this awesome airplane more effective, deadly, and effeicient
TheScrumpty 3 weeks ago
I wish they'ed reinstate it and improve it to an E model. But thats our government for you, I was so mad that day i found out in 2006.
Mrgunnut16 1 month ago
1:13 <3
mike104740 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
I KNOW, I KNOW! MY WIFE HATES ME FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH THIS FINE LADY!! =D
ctomeiaviles 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
My favourite plane of all time!!!
dmassive 1 month ago
i love this plane i hate what america did to it..smashed most of em into little boxes of metal...id kill every person who did that top those planes
qwerty21567 1 month ago
Most beautiful aircraft ever made. It has the perfect curves and shape, just like an extremely attractive woman.
kabloom321 1 month ago 21
geez! how i wish i had the chance to pilot one of these. its a beautiful plane,
what i dont get is why they retired them, if the maintence was to much maybe invest in new engines and electronics instead of wasting billions of dollars in developing new aircraft?
RebelDawg0291 1 month ago
@RebelDawg0291 the maintenance was the EXCUSE for getting rid of tomcat, yes it did require more man hours to maintain than hornet, but all of tomcats parts were already paid for long ago, but man hours do not cost the navy any more than the hornet, naval personell are all paid a salary, weather they work for 160 hours a month or they work 320 hours a month, so the maintenance, "PROBLEM" was nothing more than an EXCUSE, and yes superhornet is far more expensive and not nearly as capable.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
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FERNANDOKENNEDY 1 month ago
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FERNANDOKENNEDY 1 month ago
I still believe the Tom is the best modern fighter that the US has produced.
bakugan433252 1 month ago
Why do you think not much popped off during her rein?FEAR BABY...ANYTIME BABY wasnt just a sloagon,that was for real real.Our enemies new we could have a fully loaded F-14 DEMON KILLER at thier doorstep,anytime baby.Thrusting to prat engines spitting bye at 1000.500 and some change miles per hour for some seek and destroy action!Yeah BABY.
STARCHILD159 1 month ago
I WOULD DO DAMAGE TO THIS PLANE!!!
LigerZeroFtw 1 month ago
This is my dream job to take off in a tomcat and feel that rush of blood to your brain and live
Lilman4899 1 month ago
The Turbo Kat from Swat Kats :)
CLAUD21212 1 month ago
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CLAUD21212 1 month ago
@eatthisvr6 ok good to know... the last article/video (not sure, it was some time ago) I found that F-15 proven to be still very good fighters blablabla and will remain in service; but it could be a misleading one. For me neither f-18 nor f-22 will replace tomcat
viktordubec 1 month ago
The F-14 Tomcat was in my best view one of the best ever built. I play aerial combat video and most of the time, I stick with the F-14 Tomcat.
Lane8492 1 month ago
uhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu animallllllllllll
doku9717 1 month ago
Love these jets <3 :)
@makemap yes F-14 was replaced by F-22 raptor... and from military point of view there is no sence to copy replaced jet, however if Chinese will copy them another reason to become a millionaire and buy one just for yourself ;)
yeah I knew that... that's the reason why all US F-14 were shredded to pieces (no spare parts for Iran)
viktordubec 1 month ago
@viktordubec the f22 has nothing to do with the f14 (the f22 will replace the f15) the f18 replaced the tomcat (the tomcat is an epic plane the hornet is a bit meh)
eatthisvr6 1 month ago
Noob question here lol. What is the smoke they produce? Beautiful plane.
FellowPazzini23 2 months ago
@FellowPazzini23 part of it is down to wingtip vortices and part of it - the big cloudy part - down to the shockwave compressing the condensate in the air around the plane.
thskyt 2 months ago
@thskyt Ahhh brilliant. Thanks :)
FellowPazzini23 2 months ago
@FellowPazzini23 sound barrier break
concept015 2 months ago
@FellowPazzini23 it is not smoke it is water vapors from the moisture in the air when it is maneuvering, as the plane pulls G's, the air on top of the plane is subject to severe turbulence, and as that happens suddenly the moisture in the air becomes visible.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
Sexiest fighter of all time!
seans63lemansSD 2 months ago
My favorite plane ever! Specially with the jolly roger skull on the tail.
knifeyboy82 2 months ago
still is one of the best looking jets to date
3arc1138 2 months ago
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ctomeiaviles 2 months ago
They invented the F-14 to defeat Chuck Norris.
jb42682 2 months ago
@kiponline100,
They can't, it would be a waste of money. If they got these it would last 15 seconds after the "ALALAALALALAAAAAAA" and then the KABOOOM!
RMRNetwork 2 months ago
Old but gold, baby!!
firstmusic00 2 months ago
Search FlightGear on google if you want to fly a F-14 in a flight simulator. It is a open source flight simulator and it's totally free to download. Search them on face book, they have a page there. Really awesome flight sim, most realistic sim, you can launch your F-14(among many authentic aircraft) from a carrier ship, all the bells and whistles work on the plane, makes you feel like a real pilot...lol. Real world mapping and airports. check it out.
multimaxriaan 2 months ago
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multimaxriaan 2 months ago
too much words below my comment
FuckityFuckFuck23 2 months ago
deoz que weno
Arkantorx 2 months ago
@DrPoon
You've got some issues dude. This song is perfect!
broxigar1983 2 months ago
dislike this because of the unoriginal stupid fucking music,
DrPoon 2 months ago
this is the prettiest american plane ever built, and one of the best in the world. it surely pains to see dozen of them in iranian hands. forgive for my english, but i dont "giva a fack"
uzickimajmunac 2 months ago
@jasper5554 the Su-27 was based off of the F-14. that is how much the Russians feared the F-14. And no it isnt more maneuverable than the F-14. IF the Turkey got it's upgrades like it should have, even now the Russians would still be playing catch up to the Cat.
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
The best fighter EVER !!
MozziMono 2 months ago
one word: SEXY
LaggerEntertainment 2 months ago
I must have watched this 20 times. Lets hope it hits the 1,000,000! Beautiful jet and great wee vid.
82Doogie 2 months ago
what was the problem of f-14
sconstruction 2 months ago
One word for this plane ...BEAST!!! Everything about it is raw mental power...Tom Cruise is a nut-case but ever since I saw Top Gun ive been in love with the F14...Others have come but imo none can beat the Tommy 'C' for pure style...If it was a car it would be a Rolls Royce with a Formula 1 engine in it.
williamblair11 2 months ago 6
@williamblair11 and weapons pylons
trainguy3 2 months ago
@williamblair11 SU-27 would kill this little baby in a split second.
IronManu77 1 month ago
@IronManu77 lets see you try.
USSWISCONSIN64 1 month ago
@USSWISCONSIN64 These F-14s look good in movies only, with actors flying the mockup plane and chewing gums as if they had built the plane by themselves. In real life, the Russian aircraft are much superior to these models, barring the F-22 which has stealth and speed.
IronManu77 1 month ago
@IronManu77 but guess what. do you know any way possible that the F-22 and SU-27 will fight. highly unlikely. and besides those videos made by people
USSWISCONSIN64 1 month ago
@IronManu77 the F-22 is a POS, it does have amazing manuerverability, but it is not as stealth as the world is being told that it is, it is a sunny day fighter, and becomes a target when flying in the rain. as far as those russian planes being superior? give me a break, they may be tougher when on the ground, but against an eagle or tomcat, they die like everyone else.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@IronManu77 really? then how come the ones we bought along with the mig 29"s we bought could not beat us in out tomcats or eagle's in ACM excercises? if you can answer me that question, then i may have a moment to think you may have a clue what you are talking about, i flew against both of those aircraft in ACM excercises, a lot of times, and never lost to them.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@TheScrumpty You were sold downgraded versions of those aircrafts, only capable of 20% of what they were capable of doing, and still US jets could surpass the Russian jets by a small margin, so yes, you had an advantage over downgraded versions.
IronManu77 1 month ago
@IronManu77 you really don't have a clue as to what you are talking about do you? downgraded? you are full of it, tiny margin, it was easy beating them, that margin can not even be called a margin, the hornet did better than those planes did against the tomcat. and the ones we confiscated from Iraq after the first gulf war were by no means "DOWNGRADED" face it man, the Russian tactical aircraft are still trying to catch up with what the United States built in the 1970's, and we already moved on.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@TheScrumpty Just out of curiosity, since it's apparent you do know your stuff, what do you think about the current state of our Military and the use of their money to buy such planes like the JSF, F-22, and hell even the Hornet? I've read countless times that the Tomcat was much better than the F-18, but I never knew if that was true. The JSF is already looking like the next big POS like the cRaptor is.
rex3453 1 month ago
@rex3453 so do you really want to know what i think? well i walked away from a 20+year career as a naval aviator, while being offered a promotion to captain and command of my own airwing because i absolutely refuse to go out to sea with only the F/A-18 to protect the battle group, and i refuse to fly into combat in the F/A-18, the F-14 was a true air superiority fighter, like the F-15 is, the F-22 has not proven anything except that it can only fly during nice sunny days or star filled nights.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@rex3453 but if you really do want to know, what i think, about how our most effective weapons systems are being replaced by less capable ones which are far more expensive, is effectively gutting our military and providing our enemies with easier targets to which to attack us, and taking away from our men doing the fighting the tools they need and want to do our fighting for us, i will talk, but if you are going to tell me that i dont know what i am talking about, or ridicule me, please dont
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@TheScrumpty Nah, again it is very apparent that you do know your stuff. I've talked to many NCO's and CO's my father (whom served 28 years in the USAF) and they ALL agreed and said basically the same thing you just did.
rex3453 1 month ago
@rex3453 so you already have all the information that you were looking for then?
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@TheScrumpty Initially I did not, but I just wanted to know if an old timer like yourself shared the same opinions with the other old timers I've talked to.
rex3453 1 month ago
@rex3453 well if you want to know if i think the F/A-18 superhornet is a huge waste of money, then yes i do, if you want to know if i think the F-22 is an even bigger waste of money, i most certainly do, was the F-14 far superior to the hornet, absolutely in every way easily performance wise, do i think that the already paid for research and development for the quickstrike tomcat should have been chosen over superhornet, hell yes i do. am i shamed about our leadership, absolutely yes i am.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago
@TheScrumpty right on brother :-)
Look at the F22, they are getting ready to scrap for the F-35. They should just scrap that for the UAVs.
Manned aircraft are a thing of the past and I am glad to at least worked on the F14 in the Navy on CV64.
What a lot of these knuckleheads don't understand is the F14 was developed against ANYTHING. Phoenix AIM-54 - I dare you to put one on a F16, let's try 6. F14 were aces the minute anything started.
bobbycv64 1 month ago
@bobbycv64 i may be just a dumb old tomcat pilot but i don't think manned fighters are anywhere near being a thing of the past, the tomcat was a purebred fighter, where the hornet is nowhere close to being a fighter, i agree with you that the F-35 is a huge mistake, and the fleet was secure with the tomcat, something which can not be said today under the small umbrella of the hornet, the tomcat can not be replaced easily.
TheScrumpty 1 month ago 11
I always l;oved the way it looked. Very agressive looking. And barnew wallis swing wings. The US had faith in Barnes Wallis idea when the Brits were only warm to it.
It does seem like a vast aircraft for a fighter though. It must dwarf the Typhoon or?
Bobby64cv can you elaborate on your experience?
smilo996 2 weeks ago
@TheScrumpty well the tomcat has a large radar cross section while the super hornet has a very small one the super hornet also has AESA witch the f-14 lacks plus the new aim-120d has the same range as the aim-54,
nick74178ify 2 weeks ago
@nick74178ify I guess i should not be surprised that your information is way wrong, first off yes the tomcat did have a larger RCS than the hornet, but the E model would have had a much smaller RCS than the hornet, no the tomcat did not have the AESA, do you even know what that is? the E model tomcat would have had it also, the tomcat also carried the AIM-120D, and no it did not have anywhere near the range of the phoenix, AIM 120d range is about 55 nm, AIM 54c 165nm learn your facts.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
@nick74178ify and that is not the question that i asked you about, with the exception of the F-15 which is as equal in every way to the tomcat, and the F-22 which nothing can match, name one fighter plane that is more maneuverable or agile than the tomcat? that was the question, and anything the SH can be equipped with, so can the tomcat. the SH is not 1/4 as capable as the A model tomcats, let alone the D model tomcats, and would probably be about 1/10 as capable as the E model if it was built.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
the f-14d did not carry amraam missiles it used them for testing but the navy never installed the gear to carry them go look it up, Its impossible for the f-14 to carry the aim-120D since the fist aim-120D just went in to service in 2012 the f-14 was retired in 2006 so i caught you lying. And the SH has a 0.93 thrust to weight ratio while the f-14 only has 0.91 the SH has a better thrust to weight ratio and the f-14 has a 113lbs wing load while the SH has 94lbsthe SH has more maneuverability
nick74178ify 2 weeks ago
@nick74178ify you did not catch me lying what are you talking about, the F-14 did carry the amraam, not the D model of the amraam, but it did carry the A and B models, and if still in service it would have carried the D models, and it is just like an inexperienced person to not know that a T/W ratio does not mean as much as they think it means, that incledes you, wing loading is another one of those useless statistics, the SH can only dream of being able to beat tomcat in ACM.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
The f-14 can pull 6.5 G while SH can do 7.5G and send me the links that would say the f-14E would have AESA radar and a lower RCS then the SH with. I doubt that since the F-14 is huge not much you could do to get a 25m2 jet below the 0.1m2 of a SH. And a AESA is a radar it uses Tr modules that has no moving parts, its faster and has better resolution and more memory space as well it is LPI, cant be jammed, can act as a RWR, and can be uses as a jammer.
nick74178ify 2 weeks ago
@nick74178ify both the F-14 and F-18 can pull more than 7.5g's, the tomcat can pull 5.4 and the hornet can pull 8.8 if the airframe is under 5,000 flight hours, after 5k hrs the limit is 8.4 till 1k hrs and after 10k it drops to 7k, tomcats with excess of 60k hrs were still able to pull 8.4. and every tactical aircraft since 1961 has been built with RWR, just in case you did not know that, AESA has nothing to do with that, and i do know what AESA is, you can not educate me on this subject.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
@nick74178ify now i don't know where you got your way off base numbers, but perhaps you may want to do more research, but then again, any actual information that would help you to win this argument #1 does not exist, and #2 you would not have access to.
TheScrumpty 2 weeks ago
As far as i know f-14 did have the a/b aim-120 but i herd the plan to make them its main BVR missile was drooped why i got no clue, Yes RWR are made to track radar signals but i have studied the AESA radar i hope you know it has LPI or low probability of intercept, They change frequencies over a thousand times a second, plus they use frequencies hoping in different directions so RWR have a very hard time finding them. The AESA radar can also act as RWR since it has active arrays.
nick74178ify 1 week ago
@nick74178ify ok well it seems to me that you do know a little information, but not nearly enough, and you know next to nothing on how RWR even works, lets start with the AIM 120 A and B models, yes we did carry them on the d model tomcats as a replacement for the sparrow, which you should know had only about a 50% hit/miss ratio, yes the D model AIM 120 would have been carried as well, but it does not go nearly as far as AIM 54 could, only about 1/3 of the distance, and it is not nearly as fast
TheScrumpty 1 week ago
yes your right the aim-120 was on the f-14 i mixed up platforms sorry. And yes i study BVR i dont really study WVR so i will trust the information you give me. As for the aim-120 a/b they did only have 50% KP but the new aim-120c-7 is said to be 90% and the new D AMRAAM is said to be a bit better. For the record im not a hater of the f-14 i think its one of the greatest aircraft in aviation history.
nick74178ify 1 week ago
@TheScrumpty
I may be just a dumb not so old Mig pilot... but... Purebread fighter? Tomcat was just a heavy flyin' platform built for Phoenix missiles. Dog fight in Tomcat must be a horror... Just like trying to fly a huge commode against the agile birds...
dokomana 5 days ago
@dokomana
But it's still an airplane, which will all miss the sky ...
dokomana 5 days ago
@dokomana well you are right to a degree, the A model tomcats were sort of a pain to fly in ACM, because the engines had to be handled carefully, however when the F-110's replaced the TF-30's, flying the F-14 in ACM was incredible and the true potential of the agility the airframe was capable of, started to be realised, the b and d model tomcats were animals in ACM far from a horror that you described, acm in the A model was inconvienient but not a horror.
TheScrumpty 4 days ago
@dokomana and you are totally wrong about one thing, the tomcat was not developed to be a heavy flying platform for the phoenix missile, it was developed as an air superiority fighter, but it also had the speed to be an interceptor also, and was large enough to fit the phoenix missile weapons system, but first and foremost it has always been a fighter plane.
TheScrumpty 4 days ago
@dokomana its targeting system/ weapons platform was its advantage..WW2 dogfights were over long after F14 went fleet.
trufiend138 3 days ago
Fanfuckentastic
atm636 3 months ago
Effing powerful!! This has always been my favorite plane!!
ToddCMorgan2 3 months ago
it is one of the sexiest planes ever made.
venskus2009 3 months ago
One of the best fighter jets ever created. R.I.P. Tomcat., out of service since 2006, all remaining units in the U.S. were grinded down to bits. =(
medjaiii 3 months ago
@medjaiii they still have some for airshows and stuff! LD
xAndyyB 3 months ago
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ctomeiaviles 3 months ago
I hope Chinese won't copy this plane for them lol
kiponline100 3 months ago 10
@kiponline100 They can go right ahead and do some. Their copies will be raped by PAK-FA's, EF Typhoons, F-15C's and F-15SE's and F-22 Raptors :p I love the Tomkitty but I am well aware of its limitations and know it won't stand much of a chance against 5th gen planes like the Raptor.
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan if the F-14 had received the upgrades it was suppose to receive then it could have held its own against the F-22. However Dick Chenney made sure it never received its upgrades so that it was phased out and the NAVY was forced, by him, to take the F-18 that is half of what the F-14 was.
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@BBEEAANN1 Oh really? What kind of upgrades would enable the Tomcat to hold its own against the Raptor? Please enlighten me... I am unaware of something like that :\
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan google this article F-14 Tomcat Replacement Proposals
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@BBEEAANN1 I see, you mean the ASF-14? That wouldn't have been an upgrade to existing Tomcats buddy, it would have been a completely new aircraft based off the F-14. An evolution of the Tomcat if you will.
Only if they didn't lobby the superhornet so much :(
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan yeah, the hornet mafia forced the fail F-18 onto the NAVY that didnt want it. Chenney is a douchebag and should be fired. He got pissed because he tried to buy Grumman with a bunch of people and Grumman told them to take a hike. After that he made it so the F-14 didnt get the quickstrike upgrade after 10 years like it should have gotten and kept it from upgrades for 17 years total. That is the only reason we arent seeing hte F-14 still
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@BBEEAANN1 Cheney didn't only kill the Tomcat. The reason why the USA will receive only 187 Raptors which is not enough to defend your air-space, is also partly due to that greedy asshole. How I wish I had a chance to see the Tomcat fly =(
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan The US shouldnt have went with the F-22, it is a great fighter but, the YF-23 was better than it and could be modified, in its current configuration for the JSF. If we had the YF-23 we would have an air superiortiy fighter and the JSF all rolled into one. It was better than the 22 in all categories other than slow speed turning, which the F-22 was only slightly better, this going against an aircraft with no TVC and supposedly cost which, I doubt was the case. Grumman has always ..
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan been better than Lockheed at designing aircraft. They design good aircraft but, not as good.
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@BBEEAANN1 and you are right, the hornet was forced down the navy's throat, the navy did not want the plane in 1981, and fought against it, but it did happen to fit the ability to replace the last of the F-4 phantom squadrons, the navy had, all of the phantom squadrons the marine corps had, and it was a very nice replacement for the A-7 corsair as well, but later, cheney forced the hornet to take over all of the airwings roles, even the ones it can never do.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@BBEEAANN1 i am not saying the navy does not need the F/A-18, it does, but it also needs the F-14 and the
A-6 as well, the hornet can not replace either one of these planes, and now is trying to, it is being asked to accomplish the impossible, it will never be able to carry the large ordinance load of the intruder, and it will never be able to defend the fleet and dogfight like tomcat could, it is a light strike plane with a smaller radar signature than the A-7 and is faster than A-7 as well.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan well the envisioned ASF-14 would have been new airframes, however the basic internal airframe would have remained the same, but all of the systems, wiring, fuel tanks, hydraulics, engines, electronics, and fire control would have been new and cutting edge, the big problem is the f-14 was supposed to get it's b upgrade in 1982, and the d was supposed to be available in 1988, quickstrike was supposed to be ready in 1995 but these were all late, or cancelled before it final death.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@TheScrumpty What kind of improvements are we talking about buddy? TVC? Supercruise? AESA radar? Higher maintained AoA? Higher Range?
And since the bird is retired and resting after a wonderful service, I assume its capabilities are not classified anymore.
In that case, can you fill me in on your F-14's max sustained AoA with its wings on both positions?
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan all of the above, the quickstrike was slated for 3d tvn, and newer engines, with another 14,000 lbs dry thrust each, which would have made the quickstrike all but unbeatable, we routinely held a 25 degree aoa in the D model tomcats, I can only guess that the quickstrike would have been better, and wing position when in high AOA had to be full foward so it could use it's slats, flaps, and spoilers to control it at such slow speeds. but the F-14, was not done showing us it's best
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan The quickstrike and ASF-14 upgrades were based off of the current F-14D as a foundation and the ASF-14 was still going to be using the same configuration. The ASF-14 was redesigned to make F-14 to make it far more maintenance friendly. It also had many changes to the current design to lower its RCS, improve its already great range, modernize its cockpit, give it more ordinance for strike capability, and thrust vectoring. My God, an F-14 with TVC=pwnage
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
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sadekgheidan 2 months ago
I know, right?! I'd rather have ONE of those than a hundred F/A-18 Superbugs :\
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan well the quickstrike tomcat would have been able to hold its own against the raptor in theory, due to several factors that was planned for the quickstrike version, the raptor has a few major problems, that tomcat would have been able to pick apart with quickstrike, current eagles are starting to find those problems as well, and beggining to hold their own now as well. neither hornet nor falcon will ever stand a chance against the raptor though.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan however the proposed supertomcat 21 would have been able to easily match and beat the raptor, tomcat was not killed because it was not capable, it was killed by one greedy politician period, the hornet could not and can not do tomcats job, nor will it ever be able to take tomcats place as a great fighter, before my retirement in late 2006 i held an 87% win rate over the hornet/superhornet while flying tomcats, only the very best of the hornet pilots had a chance of beating me.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@TheScrumpty Please don't compare the proposed Tomcat with the Raptor.
if I'm not mistaken, the advanced Tomcat would have been a multirole jet with an emphasis on bombing and intercepting with the F-22 being a purely an air-domination/superiority jet. It would damn sure be able to give the F-22 a run for its money but beating the Raptor? I'm not so sure about that..
You said you held a 87% win rate over bugs/superbugs? What kind of theater were you flying and under what conditions usually?
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan you can read about the proposed Tomcat here...google F-14 Tomcat Replacement Proposals
The ASF-14 was a cheaper proposal to the NATF by Grumman. This was a new aircraft that started with the F-14D as a foundation it would have had a lower RCS , more powerful engines so it could supercruise, thrust vectoring nozzels, modernized cockpit, etc. It would have been able to hold its own with a raptor especially with the radar that was proposed so it could pick up stealth aircraft.
BBEEAANN1 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan it was ACM excercises, such as top gun and red flag, all kinds of conditions were flown in by all of us??????? and believe me when i tell you, the raptor is not as invisible to radar as they want you to believ it is. yes the tomcat was capable of intercepting, but it has from day one been an air superiority fighter, period, it was not till late in it's career that it was tasked with bombing also, due to A-6 retire, and F-18's limited range. but we proved it can bomb well too.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@TheScrumpty According to a F-22 Flyboy I have been talking to for a long time, it's very stealthy (Stealthier than what was required). It's actually so stealthy that Viper and Eagle pilots rather not fight Raptors in simulated combat because they don't stand a chance, even when they outnumber Raptors 6-8 s 2.. So now the Raptor crew puts pods under the F-22's that increase it's RCS to make it a "fair" fight, but still the results are the same. Almost always perfect BVR kills. Forget ECM.
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan guess what, the air force only flys the F-22 when it is sunny outside in those excercises, because when it flies in the rain, it is very visible to radar
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
@TheScrumpty That's the B-2 and F-117 that you are talking about. They had problems with Rain eroding the tape covering the panel gaps... The Raptor does not have that problem. I thought that you, as a ex-military aviator at least knew that... Or are you being dishonest here?
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@sadekgheidan not at all, and it has nothing to do with the rain DEGRADING anything, the paint and radar absorbing materials also absorb water, and when that happens, the surface becomes as easy to see on radar as a polished aluminum surface.
TheScrumpty 2 months ago
I know you very much love your jet and I do too, but are you seriously implying that it would stand a snowballs chance in hell against the Raptor if the pilots were equally good? Also, what can a Tomcat (or any other plane for that matter) do when it's radar gets fried instead of jammed by the Raptors AGP-77? It's just not a fair fight and I think it will be decided in BVR fairly quickly.
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
@kiponline100 they would have a very, very hard time coping the F-14 if they ever tried. Till this day certain parts are still a secret and have been destroyed mainly so that Iran doesnt get their hands on it. Iran still have the most F-14 in use today.
cesar333 2 months ago
@kiponline100 Its 45 year old technology lol. I think they already have better performing Russian fighters.
seans63lemansSD 2 months ago
@seans63lemansSD
Most tanks/planes used by the US and a slew of other countries are 40+ years old, some are the same stuff upgraded to be acceptable on the modern battlefield. The F-14 was a wonderful aircraft, but its retirement was a mistake in my opinion. The F-18 and F-16 are also great aircraft, but lack the speed and maneuverability the F-14 offered with its variable sweep wings and a large amount of hard points for attaching more armaments to compliment its attack role.
ReinbachThe3rd 1 month ago
@kiponline100 Didn't this plane got replaced? So what's the point of copying a replace jet?
Did you know Iran is using the F14?
makemap 1 month ago
@makemap Iran received 70 F-14s back in the days of the Shah, they didn't copy anything
PresidentEvil11 1 month ago
@kiponline100 If they do make a copy, it would more likely shatter and explode in a massive fail XD
DiLiG3N7 1 month ago
i hope phlippine air force will have this, so Migs of fuckin Chinese wont buzz our Planes anymore!
supermanrex1 3 months ago
@supermanrex1 pinoys with f14s ftw :D
dustine126 3 months ago
@supermanrex1 too expensive
bloodrage008 3 months ago
Sexiest jet to do it, the best always go too soon like the tomcat and blackbird:(
dgriffett9 3 months ago
damn when the F14 has its wings back it looks so friggin awesome
HostileSausage 3 months ago
I've seen almost every jet at air shows. Sadly I never got to see a tomcat
metallicaman5150 3 months ago
more than 130 kills of 168 iranian af do with cats..love this plane...
galicije83 3 months ago
Amazing!!!!!!
ibasawaman 3 months ago
Highest number of kills with an F-14 was made by an Iranian.
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Directsource4u 3 months ago
US is the one that sets up the standard and Russia, China etc are just trying to keep up
bojanglesme 3 months ago
@bojanglesme china is a piece of shit india can destroy china now
ashpun007 3 months ago
Please send me the links of the images at 0:56 and 3:16, I would be very grateful!
thystevenmeister 3 months ago
Thank you Jahenriquez
aramisexplormining 4 months ago
Nice!!
takataka10595 4 months ago
Incredible the Sonic Boom in 2:09 Please, What´s the name of the song theme? thank you.
aramisexplormining 4 months ago
@aramisexplormining Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins
jahenriquez 4 months ago
F - 14 = Danger zone...LOL
unwiredx 4 months ago
Would anyone agree that Iran's f-14 is as good as Israel's f-16i? i need an answer asap...lol
jesusonXTC 4 months ago
@jesusonXTC Not a chance...the F 14 was designed as an air superiority fighter which it performed flawlessly. The F 16 is a multi-role aircraft.
fish4kbcf 3 months ago
Is it possible to watch an F-14 video WITHOUT that overplayed song from that overrated movie? I would love to hear just the engine noise without anything else in the background.
336kgf 4 months ago
REVIN' UP YOUR ENGINE LISTEN TO HER HOWLIN' ROAR
METAL UNDER TENSION BEGGIN' YOU TO TOUCH AND GO
HIIIGGGHHWAAAYYY TOOOO THE DANGER ZONE
RIDE INTO THE DANGER ZONE
HEADIN' INTO TWILIGHT SPREADIN' OUT HER WINGS TONIGHT
SHE GOT YOU JUMPIN' OFF THE TRACK AND SHOVIN' INTO OVERDRIVE :D
HOMEofK1W1 4 months ago
@HOMEofK1W1 I once heard an interview with a U.S. military pilot on the radio. According to the pilot, the only realistic thing about Top Gun is the singing in the bar.
336kgf 4 months ago
1:53 love the Afterburner :D
HOMEofK1W1 4 months ago 8
@HOMEofK1W1 me to man... me to... :D
Fordje66 3 months ago
@HOMEofK1W1 wonder how quickly it would cook my steak...
venskus2009 3 months ago
@HOMEofK1W1 Yeah, IR seeking missiles do too! :D
sadekgheidan 2 months ago
im crying...... I miss you Tomcat
HOMEofK1W1 4 months ago
0:38 CHHHAAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HOMEofK1W1 4 months ago
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HOMEofK1W1 4 months ago
erm.. tomcats didn't live forever... retired from service...
durk1967 4 months ago
Tomcats live forever!
NehemiasGueiros 4 months ago
Sexy
sebyhsa 4 months ago
The Best Fighter Ever. Period. Turn and burn Baby.
PublicAnimal99 4 months ago