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Iran’s F-14 Tomcats are the last of their kind. Israel’s been blowing some of them up.
A still from IDF video footage of a strike on two F-14 fighter jets Israel Defense Forces The F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the “Top Gun” films and its storied history with the US Navy, is a dying breed. Long since retired by the US military, Iran is the only remaining operator. Israel, however, has been blowing some of them up lately as it targets Iran’s military capabilities and nuclear and missile programs. In the 1986 “Top Gun” film, Lt. Pete …
Iran's F-14 Tomcats are the last of their kind. Israel's been blowing them up.
A still from IDF video footage of a strike on two F-14 fighter jetsIsrael Defense ForcesIran is the only country that still has the iconic US-made F-14 Tomcat aircraft in service.Amid its relentless strikes on Iran, Israel shared footage of it hitting two of them.The jet was famously featured in the "Top Gun" films and used in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and against Libya.The F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the "Top Gun" films and its storied histor…
F-14 Tomcat: The Iconic Aircraft of Top Gun That Transformed Military Aviation
[Cet article a initialement été publié le 15 juillet 2024] Aviation and cinema enthusiasts experienced a moment rich in emotions in 1986. This year will mark on the big screen the arrival of Top Guna film on cult military aviation highlighting the young Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. In the work that has become cult, the real star was not made of blood, bone and sunglasses classes but of wheel and kerosene: F14-Tomcat. Top Gun, the summit of aircraf…
[This article was originally published on July 15, 2024] Aviation and film enthusiasts experienced a time rich in emotions in 1986. This year will mark the arrival of Top Gun, a film about the cult military aviation highlighting the very young Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. In the cult work, the real star was not made of blood, dios and class sunglasses but of wheel and kerosene: the F14-Tomcat. Top Gun, the top of the films of aircraft? The success…
However, everything seen in the film is done with digital animation and no combat sequence with the F-14 Tomcat is real, mainly because the U.S. Army has no unit currently in service.The F-14 Tomcat was a two-seater supersonic fighter with wings of long-range, dual-engine variable geometry, designed by Grumman for the U.S. Navy whose primary objective was the defense of the naval fleet and, among its secondary objectives, could be the escort of …
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