What did the F-14 do wrong that the F-15 did right?

What did the F-14 do wrong that the F-15 did right?

Why was the former killed and the latter allowed to thrive?

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Everything except have an arresting hook and airframe suited to carrier-based STOL

F14 was one of the worst deigned variable geometry aircraft made - from an aerodynamic, mechanical and maintenance point of view.

This high maintenance requirement, large deck footprint and reliability isssues made it poorly suited for carrier operations.

F15 was just better in pretty much every way asides from the lack of IRST.

>worst
What about the 111?

>F-14 do wrong
Be sold to Iran
American foreign policy after the Revolution could be summed up as Fuck Iran

Or the MiG-23 and 27

23-chan did nothing wrong, don’t talk bad about her.

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Keeping a Tomcat flying cost a lot of money, and with the cold war over, its utility as an interceptor was almost pointless. Also, with the only foreign operator being under a perpetual arms embargo, retaining the toolings for Tomcat was unlikely to make it's various manufacturers any money.
Grumman put together some advanced F-14 fighter bomber designs along the lines of the Strike Eagle, but the Navy already was thrilled with how the Super Hornet was shaping up, so they pursued that instead. Foxtrot Alpha has pretty decent write up on the ASF-14, as it was known.

All of them are in the same category.

Tornado, B1 and Tu 160 are the only ones with properly designed joints and wing roots.

Of them I'd say Tornado is the best as it does not rely on a lifting body like every other variable geometry aircraft.

It's Soviet made shit. Literally flying garbage.

Two things that really doomed it were the maintenance requirements and the A and B models were severely underpowered.

it had a far better designed wing root than F14. Just compare the two images and look at how much of the Mig-23 can move as opposed to the F14.

I gained a lot of respect for the MiG-23 after learning one managed to dodge a onslaught of missiles during the Itavia 870 shootdown incident before a being forced into terrain. A lesser fighter wouldn't have gotten within sniffing distance of the Italian coast.
>inb4 it wasn't shot down.

Came about earlier, had higher maintenance requirements, had more primitive systems and computers, didn't have computers that could be upgraded for use with AIM-120 and and later missiles, and its primary armament, the AIM-54 phoenix never worked in combat, and the plane couldn't be safely recovered on the carrier if it carried a full six missile load of them.

variable geometry is a bitch to mantain
also, the foreign sales of each model pretty much guaranteed the outcome
>sell tomcats to iran
>oh fug, they change regimes, we need to ensure this bird can't be mantained for too long
>sell eagles to Israel, SK and Japan
>oh well, we need to ensure this bird can fly for a long time since these key strategic allies will still need to mantain their fleet

Had a supporting role in a Tom Cruise movie.

That was something it did wrong?

Yes.

What the fuck are you on about?

The F-14 was a much more capable aircraft with a better performance history

>The F-14 was a much more capable aircraft with a better performance history

Which has literally nothing to do with what we're talking about.

>American foreign policy after the Revolution could be summed up as Fuck Iran
Except for a brief and unofficial bit in the mid eighties that's been policy since 1953. Langley simply had a local collaborator there up until '79.

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the virgin tomcat vs the chad eagle

The F-14 could lug heavy missiles to attack the swarms the Sovs were planning to fly at them. It was a bludgeon to counter a bludgeon, a necessary expedient at the time.

Little known fact: the US was forced to begin decommissioning F-14s as an informal addendum to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START) with the Soviet Union in the early 90s. In exchange for the USSR limiting and reducing reducing its stockpile of MIRVs, the US agreed to stop producing the sickassed plane that totally embarrassed the Kremlin by flying inverted over a MiG and nonverbally directing all commie scum to go fuck themselves. George H W Bush was famously stated after negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev that if we simply "hit the brakes" the Russians would "fly right by." History has proven President Bish wise beyond his station.

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