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Interesting article here examining the emergence of strategic threats from Russia and China. Thus leading to wishful thinking for the US Navy to have the F-14D again to combat the long range threat which the F/A-18E/F may not be able to handle.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...cat-back-35392
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the article doesn't say any of the things you say it does.
it days that the F-14 was a nightmare to operate, and apart from being really fast, and going a really long way - when you could get it off the ground - it was deficient in pretty much all areas of operations compared to the F/A-18.
the article actually says that what the USN would like is a way of achieving greater reach with the F/A-18 (Meteor anyone?), and that they want its next fighter to be a bit faster, and have longer legs than the F/A-18. i paraphrase, but they want something thats 90% Superhornet, and 10% Tomcat. not anything that 100% Tomcat.