F-14D Super Tomcat
The Tomcat as it should always have been: new engines, digital radar, and a strike role.
- GE F110 engines
- Digital avionics
- Variable-sweep wings
- Strike capable
Ficha técnica
- Origen
- United States
- Fabricante
- Grumman
- Función
- Multirole
- Generación
- 4
- En servicio desde
- 1991
- Tipo de combate
- Aire
- Código de aparición
- f14d2
En el servidor
The F-14D fixed the problems that dogged the original Tomcat. General Electric F110 engines replaced the troublesome TF30s, adding thrust and removing the throttle handling restrictions, and the analogue AWG-9 gave way to the digital APG-71 with new displays and ejection seats. Deliveries began in 1991, and later in its career the type gained a targeting pod and a precision strike role that earned it the nickname Bombcat. On MCS the D model is the one people actually want to fly. It keeps the long reach and the variable-sweep wing but now has the acceleration to convert a radar advantage into a kill and to escape when a fight turns bad. It is still a big aircraft that a small fighter can out-turn at low speed, so the sensible plan is to stay fast and fight in the vertical. Recommended for pilots who want reach and punch in the same airframe.