Iran’s possession of American-made F-14 Tomcat jets, decades after they were retired by the US Navy, remains one of the most curious stories in military aviation. These fighter aircraft were originally sold to Iran under very different political ...

One would think that an older aircraft wouldn’t be as expensive to repair. However, when a plane requires anywhere between 30-60 hours of maintenance time for every hour of flight time, the bill gets to be a bit much.

The IDF destroyed two of Iran’s final remaining Cold War-era aircraft—signaling its intent to prevent Iran from regaining control of its airspace. Overnight, on June 16th-17th, Israeli forces conducted an airstrike near Tehran, targeting aircraft on ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. military tried to solve two problems with one aircraft. Then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara pushed the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program, hoping to create a single jet for both the Air Force and Navy. That meant one ...

Israel‘s air force destroyed at least two rare Iranian F-14 Tomcats in a strike on Tehran International Airport on Monday, footage published by Israel showed. One of the central goals of Israel’s air campaign against Iran is to establish air supremacy ...

Developed by Hughes through the F-111 program, the AWG-9, mated with the AIM-54 Phoenix, made the Grumman F-14 Tomcat the most deadly fleet defense weapon of its time. Produced by Hughes Aircraft Company and originally conceived through the F-111 program ...