GRUMMAN F-14 TOMCAT AIR TO AIR COMBAT PROMOTIONAL FILM 80534

[@CousinPaddy]

My uncle, who was a top gun grad, flew A-4s and then F-14s off of the Chucky V and Kitty Hawk. He loved the platform. They had a pretty cool maneuver where they’d slide on the rudders to keep their noses on a target while maintaining distance so they could win the game of missile chicken. He said the 16s were tough to spar against because they’d get on you like a wet booger, but that they lacked power. He said they used to laugh at the 18 pilots over the radio because they ran out of fuel much faster than the 14s.

[@georgemorley1029]

The most beautiful jet fighter ever designed. It’s effortlessly lovely from any angle. If this aircraft looked like a Mig-23, the film Top Gun would never have succeeded at the box office. The aircraft was the star of that movie, unquestionably.

[@lego_pirate]

The most beautiful jet ever built IMO.

[@comchia4306]

This makes me want to play Microprose's Fleet Defender. That game made me appreciate the AIM-54 Phoenix missile.

[@lotnylotny671]

Definitely, but I prefer the F-14 in DCS World. Beautiful reproduction of the pilot's cockpit, but also the work of RIO.

[@geemanbmw]

I can't stop loving the F-14 just beyond any words could ever convey...❤🇺🇸

[@harryh5620]

god why?

[@geemanbmw]

@@harryh5620 🤣

[@NicholasBartel-rl8se]

Army Team Asheville Bartel like too afraid of paperwork

[@elihannah-division7677]

You can thank Dick Cheney for the entire thing. He mocked the F14 as a “job program” and here we are today with a new Hornet who’s first generation was rejected for the F16 program. And now the F15 EX program has taken off. It’s a very sad thing to have seen the Tomcat retired early.

[@shengyi1701]

Love the zoom climb from time index 10:44 - its the same VF-101 bird i think!

[@GrummanEnjoyer]

This plane is beautiful and remarkably effective despite….engine problems

[@waynetaylor3353]

Sometimes only conflict or desperate need will inspire bringing proven practical technology back.

[@jiceBERG]

There will never be another Tomcat. The need isn't there, the game has changed. The future is the F-35 directing drones to go fight and attack lol. I'd love to see the Turkey back but it's not happening.

[@albclean]

​@@jiceBERG Ha! The fat Amy?

[@Draygo21]

@@jiceBERG Fat Amy lover huh? it cant out maneuver, out run, or out gun a Tomcat. Its a POS and even the service knows it. It also has only one engine and its ugly as F. lol Its a white elephant and only effective in ways yet to be even fully realized let alone tested; with a massive system behind it that would make it completely useless if it was ever in a real war against a comparable enemy and support systems knocked out. It can do fancy things but theres a reason the F-15 is making a comeback and other nations too have cut orders or changed to the Hornet. Its simply being forced on NATO nations by an industrial complex that has forced soooo much into it that they cannot justify cutting it without looking horribly wasteful of tax money and resources.

[@krisguntner4805]

Cool piece of historical film.

[@thecatdaddy1974]

Greatest fighter ever.

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

Highly debatable.

[@shengyi1701]

Time index 7:17 - wow! Didn’t know the Grim Reapers VF-101 also carried ordnance for a FRS!

[@j.wagner8639]

Still a necessity. Still the best.

[@2mek8]

What a beast

[@goons123flofy]

I feel the need, the need for speed!

[@allgood6760]

Awesome!... Top Gun Maverick is out now.go and see what Maverick can do with an F-14!! ✈️👍

[@CptToastman]

12:00 mig 28 :)

[@wallacejohnson6846]

Tomcat = versatile

[@nielsdorhout058]

They could still be flying F14s given that the last airframes are from 1992, the Netherlands last F16 is from 1989 and stil flying. With some big upgrades they would be a hell of a fighter. Just imagine with todays technology and some new engines what an F14 would look like 😁

[@musicmanfelipe]

If we hadn’t sold them to a country that turned hostile, we still might be flying some of them.

[@WizzRacing]

You keep thinking that. As any time these guys got the chance. They sneaked off and did Dog Fighting. As your not lying to the ground grew. They know you over G it. When they seen the bent air frame..

[@flankerfan1522]

4:04 easy to do with a go pro now... but try to hold a camera to a fighter back on those days

[@rockineighties]

It is so horribly sad that we never pursued the second generation "ASF-14" proposal which, today, would be giving the Super Flanker a run for it's money AND it would have addressed all the maintenance problems of the original Tomcat from using fly-by-wire flight control instead of hydraulic flight control, and the swing wing system would have used two top mounted electric motors operating a gear system instead of all those hydraulics. The weight savings would have helped improve the Tomcat's performance even more. The whole thing is so sad...

[@prof2yousmithe444]

Aries Man Great points! I know a few pilots who told me that for the cost of just one squadron of F18’s, they could have brought the F-14 up-to-date.

[@rockineighties]

Sadly, the F-14 was aging out. Even with upgrades, all of those hydraulic systems would have gotten worse and maintenance of the jet would have been that much more worse. Yes, a second generation Tomcat would have been expensive but it would have addressed the maintenance woes of the original on top of improving the air frame and allowing the Tomcat to really compete with an F-16 in dogfighting. This Tomcat would have given the Flanker a run for it's money and it wouldn't have even needed thrust vectoring. Plus, with what we learned from the F-22, our pilots are better off without the disadvantages that come with extra weight on the ass end of the jet and the drag that comes from this system. Regardless of how this Tomcat would have been made, it would still have been a major improvement and asset to our Navy than is the F-18. I still think it is not too late, or at least we can try to consider making a navy CATOBAR version of the latest F-15SA, with folding wings and all. I still have my doubts that the F-35 is the be-all-end-all fighter jet for our three branches. foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/top-gun-day-special-the-super-tomcat-that-was-never-bu-1575814142

[@John-cg4he]

I don’t understand why everybody (including the Navy) has determined the F14 is “out of date” can somebody define what that is please? There have been hardly any heads up fights and the few that have happened, included the F14 which won! Today, everything revolves around firing a Hellfire 75 miles at the enemy. Plus, the F14 had and still has one of the most sophisticated radar systems ever built. Radar is probably just as important as the range of ordinance. Yes, the F18 is faster and more maneuverable, but that would be it. The F15 and 16 are still in service and the Tomcat destroys both of them. So my point is simply, with the versification of the Tomcat, the radar superiority and firepower, I could think of a dozen fighters that should have gone to the grave before the F14. How in the hell are the 15 and 16 still around? Please help me understand

[@hoghogwild]

ASF-14 would have been nice, but if the Navy simply got the F-14 D models in acceptable numbers that would have been good enough. The D models would have been new build jets actually constructed in the 90's. Instead of the 132 D models they were asking for in order to run the F-14 to 2020-2025, what they got were 18, old A model airframes rebuilt to D d-specs named the F-14D(R) R for refurb and they got 37 new build F-14 D's. The only real reason for the F-14 retirement was politics. the F-14 was faster, had a 175 mile combat radius advantage, physically fits in less space than the Superhornet. Squadrons that got new F-14 D models cited HALF of the maintenance that squadrons using F-14 A models. It is a sad state of affairs.

[@hoghogwild]

@@rockineighties The F-14 D's were new builds made in the 90's, the original 70's build jets were aging out, but if the Navy got the D models in numbers they wanted, the F-14 would have aged just as gracefully as the F-16 and F-15.

[@thetreblerebel]

I knew a guy who was on the Kitty Hawk in 1973, which his cruise was the first cruise for the F14. I looked at his cruise book, and it told about installing the take off blast deflectors for the afterburner Tomcat

[@NicholasBartel-rl8se]

I wonder 1 black guard 2 whites one marine photo

[@waswolltihr1526]

It's ironical that the only nation still flying the Tomcat is Iran.

[@luciusvorenus9445]

Tragically so.

[@Retroromancer]

yep, its lol

[@Barzins1]

Waswollt Ihr Iran was the only nation who was permitted to purchase it. At the time the Shah was a very strong ally of the United States. It’s close proximity to USSR made it necessary to have a fighter who had a chance to hold Off the Russians off until the Americans go there to help defend against the attack. Nixon, who was a close friend to the Shah, gave him a choice. The f-15 or the tomcat. Iran chose, wisely, the f-14. My father was one of the officers involved in that decision. The revolution in Iran was a plague on the whole region. The instability and the fanaticism that we see in the Middle East, was caused by the lack of a strong secular nation in the region to police the region and help Israel. Carter made a huge mistake in removing the Shah.

[@hoghogwild]

@@Barzins1 Carter didnt remove the Shah, Ayatollah Khomeini and his quack revolution forced the Shah out in 1979. In May 1972, President Nixon sent his national security adviser Henry Kissinger to Tehran to visit the Shah. Nixon told Kissinger to allow the King to buy anything he wanted, short of a nuclear bomb. The Shah/King died of Cancer in 1980.

[@scott_crow]

@@Barzins1I think Israel also had the choice of the F-14 as well but in testing they chose the F-15.

[@TaxPayingContributor]

Why did AF-1 not Refuel midair enroute to Asia stops Fall2017 ?

[@seoceancrosser]

This is also a great aircraft for buzzing the tower. They left out that technique. 😆

[@USB740]

1:38 There is now: F-35

[@leeduncan6220]

Lets see an F-18 do that!!! Can't!!!

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

32 years of service retired only used by one country and that’s Iran.

[@flankerfan1522]

1:38 airbrake.... take off or landing????

[@thetreblerebel]

The F14 was a very capable fighter for its day, but it wasnt good for module maintenance and the computer weapons system was obsolete by 1982. Still, it was a fighter that would of killed alot of Migs in WW3

[@2ZZGE100]

It received heavy updates and upgrades in the 90s costing hundreds of millions of dollars. 55 new F-14D Super Tomcats were built between 1991 and 1996. The F-14D Super Tomcat had all of the modern avionics. It was a full glass cockpit with digital flight control systems, IRST, laser guided missile capabilities and also the 60,000 lbsf of thrust from the GE-F110 engines shared with the F-14B. It was absolutely at the top of its game when it was retired.

[@paulperth4205]

They should never have mothballed the F14

[@Domi39]

6:34 10:42 10:55 11:19

[@Thunder_6278]

It was a great fighter, but a victim of politics. A story often heard in the defense industry.

[@phx4closureman]

10:55 *TURN AND BURN!!!* 😆😆😆😆

[@goons123flofy]

Highway to the danger zone!

[@andrelabbe5315]

Decision stupide de Dick Cheney he kill the new Super tomcat .

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Hey, wait a minute, what if we build an aircraft that can do all that and they can't see? Answer: F-22, F-35... built on the shoulders of GIANTS.

[@harryh5620]

aaaand it's retired while F-16s and F-15s still dominate the air. What does that tell you?

[@johnbedell2376]

It tells you that the government makes terrible decisions. Who woulda thought, right?

[@jwagner1993]

Politics😢

[@JGCR59]

That movie probably sold the Shah on it

[@NicholasBartel-rl8se]

L shape building to the aft

[@dr.gmansaturng5228]

Ok ! So How did the USAF sell F 14 to Iran for ? I didn't know Iran had F-14s until 10 years ago and wander ? is the Jimmy Carter again ? He didn't build Nuclear reactor there too like he did in North Korea ? The world is more dangerous then ever ! Good Luck to U ! V !

[@PeriscopeFilm]

This happened before the Shah was deposed.

[@dr.gmansaturng5228]

You would think the USAF would have gone in there and destroyed those F-14 ? There over 35 years old now so what .

[@codyi5232]

this was before of the fall of the shah and the iranian revolution which happened when they found out their government was run by the CIA and MI5

[@codyi5232]

@@dr.gmansaturng5228 the public story about the satellite shoot down near hawaii degrade was simply that. phoenix given to iran required sat uplink, we removed it. they've since replaced it. SAP and SIC communities have been raising red flags for 4 decades alas no one listens to the warrior communities.

[@عليخالدي-ش4د]

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[@heyyolistenwhatisayo]

Why are all these salesmen wearing USN uniforms?

[@KLRGT500KR]

ROFL those are Navy admirals and high ranking officers and have nothing to do with Grumman. They are describing their requirements and how the F-14 fulfills all of their requirements. They are damn proud in the video of what F-14 delivered.