The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, famously featured in the 1980s film "Top Gun," was one of the finest naval warplanes ever built.
and one Iraqi Mi-8 Hip helicopter downed during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. No U.S. Navy-flown F-14s have ever been lost in aerial combat, though one F-14 was lost to enemy ground fire during ...
Reports of Iraq’s interest in purchasing 14 of these fighters first emerged in ... The U.S. never supplied Egypt with AIM-120s for its F-16s. David Witty, a former U.S. Army Special Forces ...
During the campaign to dislodge Saddam Hussein’s army from Iraq’s oil-rich neighbor of Kuwait, the F-14 was deployed in both air superiority and reconnaissance roles. The F-14’s stellar ...