Why did she leave us?
Post Tomcats
Lincoln Gomez
Levi Rivera
because she sucked
Carson Long
It was a shit plane that people only liked because of a movie
Ian Powell
Top Gun was a great fucking movie, though.
Jayden Turner
i guess we need an f35 movie then
Cameron Murphy
With the ABSOLUTE STATE of modern movies people would only hate it even more
Jaxon James
Worn the fuck out airframes. Get over it gramps.
Blake Hughes
because she was too pure for this world
Brody Baker
>all air frames high hours
>Northrop-Grumman desperate for any .mil sales
>make more and more promises on what a "new" F-14 can do
>Navy brass goes in a direction the dooms Tomcat
Kevin Howard
F-14 has 2x the parts of an F-18, plus, F-18 was better and newer.
Jason Jenkins
Camden White
how many did they cannibalize to keep those flying?
>you are now aware the Navy scrapped every Tomcat it could and made sure every part was destroyed just on the off chance Iran might try to acquire it for their fleet.
Chase Robinson
I have never seen that movie in my life and still love the shit out of this sexy beast.
Jeremiah Mitchell
More like pure shit lmao
Blake Butler
who knows.
they did kick a ton of Soviet-made Iraqi ass in the Iran-Iraq war though.
Elijah Ross
Aaron Smith
Nathan Sanders
note they have the aircraft number taped over to prevent Western intel from getting an accurate count on how many are still airworthy
Jonathan Gutierrez
family picture
Samuel Price
You should watch it right now.
Jaxson Lopez
>F-14A of VF-31 is launched from USS Forrestal (CV-59) off Norway in September 1987
I hope they got to make port in Norway, seems you only hear about the Navy making port in shitty 3rd world countries like New Jersy
Tyler Hill
I doubt that the actual number is a secret to any real military given how close an eye the five eyes and Israel is keeping on Iran, but they have to pretend that they are upholding opsec I guess.
Isaiah Turner
Id imagine the poor fuckers went back broke but happy. Shits expensive here
Daniel Peterson
Michael Brooks
BRAAAP!
Michael Gray
Anthony Jackson
Because a better plane replaced her
Benjamin Murphy
Northrop Grumman made the best damn fighters ever
Christopher Campbell
>Northrop Grumman
It was just Grumman when they made fighters, Northrop had nothing to do with it. Grumman was also contracted to build the moon lander, specifically due to their reputation for the extreme survivability and reliability exhibited in their aircraft designs.
Carson Ortiz
>Grumman
Wildcat, Hellcat, Avenger,
Intruder, Prowler, Raven,
Hawkeye, Greyhound, Tomcat,
X-29 and the freaking Apollo lander
will there ever be an aviation company as glorious?
Colton Rodriguez
Anytime, baby...!
Justin Hill
ummm...
Colton Ortiz
>you are now aware the Navy scrapped every Tomcat it could and made sure every part was destroyed just on the off chance Iran might try to acquire it for their fleet.
I live in Midland, Texas and there's one still on display at a local museum.
Nathan Green
Also the A-12 Avenger II. Would've been amazing had it ever been built.
Juan Williams
>he doesn't know about North American
B-1 Lancer
XB-70 Valkyrie
P-51 Mustang and F-82 Twin Mustang
X-15
Space Shuttle orbiter
Apollo CSM
XF-108 Rapier
F-86 Sabre
F-100 Super Sabre
A-5 Vigilante
OV-10 Bronco
T-2 Buckeye
T-6 Texan
B-25 Mitchell
Aaron Walker
Rule 34 is alive and well I see
Cameron Torres
That was McDonnell, never mind. I'm retarded.
William Collins
A-12 was never going to be built.I think they just used it to keep the company alive and pad the executives expense accounts.
Samuel Turner
On the East Coast, Yorktown has one, and the A&S Annex has one.
Austin Ramirez
I need sauce fren
Would also be nice if I knew where to find more of pic related
Isaac Phillips
reverse image search it, I found it, seems to be some "artist" named "ratbat"
Ethan Clark
you right
Jackson Hill
>trainers and observation craft
>XF-108 not just a prototype of the XB-70
>B-1 not being a Rockwell product
'no'
Christopher Phillips
They kept a few.