Farewell to the F-14 Tomcat
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Farewell to the F-14 Tomcat
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOogq...&search=TOMCAT
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.....
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.....
