F-14 Tomcat Magazine

We tell the complete story of the aircraft, its development, service career and retirement from the US Navy as well take the reader backstage to find out how the movie Top Gun' was made, the story told by the aircrew who flew the aircraft in the film. Born out of the US Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental programme, the Tomcat first flew in December 1970 How it became and was recognized as the best fleet defence fighter and long range interceptor in the world The weapons systems heavy armament of guns and air to air missiles, including the massive long range AIM 54 Phoenix missile