View Full Version : Farewell to the F-14 Tomcat
kokpit
27th May 2006, 14:31
Farewell to the F-14 Tomcat, not a bad video to mark the end of a 30 year career.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOogq...&search=TOMCAT
Violet Club
27th May 2006, 17:38
...apart from all the Iranian ones of course.
Lone Kestrel
28th May 2006, 07:04
A sad day indeed!!!:{
ThomasT
28th May 2006, 08:17
I bet the Iranians are honing their skills on the Tomcats, so they can wop Warsaw etc where the yanks are planning to set up missile bases. Also the Russian anti aircraft defenses purchased by Iran should knock out quite a few B2s, and cruise missiles. No wonder the Zionists are pleading with the yanks... you bomb Iran for us, or they will nuke YOU, and the yanks saying, no, no you do it for youself, they only want to nuke you!! Brits pretending to be too busy to get involved again.
exvicar
28th May 2006, 08:50
Not too sure about 'Brits pretending to be too busy'. More likely the fact that the Int that led us into the last debacle was flawed to say the least. Maybe we are learning to be slightly less trigger happy than our cousins.
Thomas...It's either too early in the morning or I'm missing something! What have you been taking! :confused:
ThomasT
28th May 2006, 10:11
You need to go to rense.com for your news not BBSC or the sewerNN channels
TEEEJ
28th May 2006, 22:22
You need to go to rense.com for your news not BBSC or the sewerNN channels
Rense.com. LOL! Yet another conspiracy nutter!
Your post on spotter corner says it all:
"They be looking for mus. terrs. Those guys who switched off all the security cameras in the trains, and had a terr. exercise running at the same time and in the same place, to mask their naughtiness. The Cambridge Evening News reported that a wounded eyewitness on the train saw a gaping hole, blown in from underneath the carriage, and NO ONE standing there at the time of the blast. Naughty musis, confusing your honest gov."
VH-GRUMPY
29th May 2006, 08:15
What has the F14 been replaced with?
Squirrel 41
29th May 2006, 08:50
Grumpy,
It's being replaced - Tomcat not quite dead yet - with F-18E / F Super Hornets, without Phoenix.
IIRC, the USN CV Air Wing of the future will be Super Hornets and derivatives as far as the eye can see - as tankers, fighters, strike a/c, and with the introduction of EA-18G "Growler", EW suppression and SEAD. Close to everything but SAR and AEW / COD!! Perhaps some of our American correspondents can provide more detail on dates and whatnot.
S41
Not_a_boffin
30th May 2006, 09:00
Most of the Tomcat squadrons are converting to either Hornet E or F variants, the last is VF31 which stands down in September (already done its last Tomcat cruise).
Squirrel is correct, the CVW of the future is hooching with F/A18 C/D, F/A18 E/F and eventually F35C (to replace some of the 18 C/D squadrons). There is a programme to procure an EF18G "Growler" to replace the EA6B Prowlers and the E2 will go on for ever. Their real problem is that nothing is being put in place to replace the S3 Viking, which means that fairly soon, they'll be in the ludicrous position of using short-legged F18s to tank similarly short legged F18s. Since the A6s and Tomcats have gone, the "legs " of a CVW have shortened considerably.
When you think what they could have had if they'd based the Tomcat 21 costings on the D model, rather than the A model, it makes you weep.....