Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the "Top Gun" films, was a formidable air-to-air combat aircraft. Originally designed in the 1970s to defend U.S. Navy carrier battle groups ...

The F-14 Tomcat first entered service more than five decades ago. While this fighter platform, infamous for its role in the blockbuster hit Top Gun, has been replaced by next-generation successors ...

You remember Top Gun, the movie about Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer playing volleyball. There was that sexy airplane too, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat: A twin engine, swing wing, carrier-borne fighter ...

While traditional weaponry may not be as useful as it once was, all US fighters still have them, and they aren't going ...

rates the action scenes in "Top Gun" and "Top Gun: Maverick." He talks about being an effective wingman, piloting an F-14, firing missiles, effectively navigating jet wash, getting out of a flat ...