I had heard a few months ago that when the USS Carl Vinson returns from the gulf it would be the last deployment of the F-14 Tomcat fighter…however, in watching the news the other night, they showed the USS Theodore Roosevelt leaving for the gulf and announced, very pointedly, that THIS would be the last deployment of the Grumman F-14 (I don’t care who supposedly built or maintains them now, they are GRUMMAN F-14 Tomcats, just like they are General Dynamics F-16s!!) So on the decks of CVN-75 will the Tomcat take it’s last trap in about 6 months….and then a page, long written, of aviation history will close…no more Grumman fighters aboard US Navy carriers…..:-(
Mark
By: kilcoo316 - 10th September 2005 at 16:53
I think its a mistake replacing the F-14 with the joke of a super hornet…
By: frankvw - 8th September 2005 at 11:48
Let’s say, no spares are produced in the US … 😉
By: Forestin - 7th September 2005 at 00:07
There will no F-14s be sold.
Not becopuse they would’t be wanted, but becouse they are to expensive to mantain & there is no way to make spare part (congress ordered the destruction of the machinery that produced the pasrts of the F-14s. So the only way to get new spare parts would be to sloughter constantly the F-14s in AMRAC.
By: frankvw - 6th September 2005 at 15:57
No, but so many others do…
By: crazymainer - 6th September 2005 at 14:30
But selling F15s is ok… 😀
Iran doesn’t have F-15 do they.
By: Wanshan - 6th September 2005 at 07:55
In a simple word No, because of the whole Iran thing Congress under the Regan Adm. passed a law that excluded certain Weapon system including the F-14 to never be made avaible to Foreign Countrys.
RER
But selling F15s is ok… 😀
By: crazymainer - 6th September 2005 at 06:13
Will any of these be made available to foreign air forces or naval air arms?
In a simple word No, because of the whole Iran thing Congress under the Regan Adm. passed a law that excluded certain Weapon system including the F-14 to never be made avaible to Foreign Countrys.
RER
By: Ja Worsley - 6th September 2005 at 05:31
Good bye Turkey, you were a great bird
By: Corsair166b - 5th September 2005 at 23:19
God I would hope so, so she can soldier on, but I have not heard anything…
M
By: Wanshan - 5th September 2005 at 23:16
Will any of these be made available to foreign air forces or naval air arms?
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