Holy shit, The Cat didn't get its cult status for just starring in Top Gun.

@SideSwipeGTA

2 жыл бұрын

It most definitely not retired because of performance issues.

At 3:11 you see the F-14 running the F-18 out of energy and coming down inverted from a vertical climb where the F-18 ran out of steam and had to point the nose down. Exactly the same way F-14D wins dog fight against the F5E in "Speed and Angels" movie. Phenomenal stuff!

The greatest fighter ever made. This video proves F-14 was ready to take the fight to whichever fighter came its way. Close range or BVR, it could go toe-to-toe with any fighter of its times.

@eac1235

6 ай бұрын

F 15 Eagle has just entered the discussion.

@albclean

6 ай бұрын

🏆​@@eac1235

@seawolf8482

6 ай бұрын

​@@eac1235 the f-15 eagle was also shown in this video getting outmaneuvered and taken down by the tomcat. Would still to this day bet on the 14 to take down any aircraft in the air past or present. A very sad day when it was retired from service.

The one and only. The greatest. Clearly proof, with a great fighter pilot like Dale Snodgrass, the F-14 A, B or D all three were capable of taking on any fighter in the world up until it retired in 2006.

@dannyboyemt

7 жыл бұрын

KLRGT500KR hell yea dude, Dale"Snort" Snodgrass was one hell of a Tomcat pilot, same goes to Joe"Hoser" Satrapa as well.

@dannyboyemt

7 жыл бұрын

KLRGT500KR here is a good read on "Hoser" flying the F14A vs F15. www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/no-kill-like-a-gun-kill-the-legendary-joe-hoser-satrapas-famous-eagle-model.35572/

@KLRGT500KR

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. Amazing read. Loved it. I love the F-14 to death. What an awesome fighter! Cheers!

@kenbiggs8864

3 жыл бұрын

I had the pleasure of seeing Snort fly several airshow demos back in the mid 90's, simply amazing! Including seeing him do the very tight formation flight w/aerobatics, him in the F-14 and in formation with an F7F Tigercat, 1996 Daytona Beach airshow. I have photos of it. Would have loved to seen it again when I was older and new how exactly how special that was.

@batvette

6 ай бұрын

No. My squadron's aircrews (VF-21) with the F-4S around 1981, handed the tomcat boys their butts at nellis and fallon. Simply because the A birds were under restricted flight envelope. At that time compressor stall incidents were seeing tomcats dropping out of the sky about once a month. The S was the last version of the phantom, with slats on the leading edges that allowed turn rates similart to the tomcat. Unfortunately it also meant high trap speeds making it unsuitable for the two midway class carriers still deploying with phantoms. We scratched one airframe and damaged another (mainmount through the wing) during carquals, and had to give them to the reserves at Miramar. We got 12 N birds from mothballs for the last cruise before 21 transitioned to tomcats. All things equal of course tomcat was the superior airframe, but our aircrews wore the phantom like an old shoe, with confidence, and the phantom has a drag chute to recover from a flat spin. The TF-30 was just scary. (I was a fire control tech on J, S and N phantoms and plane captain on the S.) FTN forever...

This was an awesome vid however what made it even more awesome was seeing my squadron VF-103 SLUGGERS airscraft 210 (has the large arrow on the vertical stabilizers) kicking ass!! I was honored to have my name on a/c 210 as the PC (Plane Captain). FCK YEAH!!!!

God, I love the cat. Every air molecules that touches her wings must be lucky. What a airframe, beautyfull on every angle. In 1000 years the can't Match by an other fighter. ❤️

best Tomcat HUD footage on KZread! Awesome killshots!

HA! At 8:08, he's playing Rouge Squadron on the MFD. That's awesome :)

@damsonn

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the N64 was one of the upgrades for the D version ☺

Amazing music (first song), amazing F-14 footage and amazing F-14 kills! "Anytime Baby!"

Thanks for the critique. The other fighter jets represented the "everything" so that viewers know what was in the F-14's HUD video that followed.

@30AndHatingIt

6 ай бұрын

Are you still active on KZread? I’m working on a long form Tomcat project and I’ve got some questions for you about this video.

7:48 Moose hunting with an F-14. LOL

Magnificent sir !! Love the HUD views, I have too many questions to post w/o looking senile. Wow, fighting the Luftwaffe 29s, those 21s, just amazing, some great editing (I'm a photog to, so some good views). Thanx for putting htis together........I'm gonna post this to my other addicted DCS guys. Was really absurd taking those out of service after being modernized, and I'll spare you my opinion of scrapping them due to "Iran security concerns." Loved those things.

@batvette

6 ай бұрын

They were retired because: High maintenance cost. Unrepairable stress cracks in the ti backbone assembly of over half the remaining airframes. Those birds were under restricted flight envelope and even so subjected to regular magnaflux NDI. Even back in 1983 when my squadron VF-21 shared hangar 1 at miramar (the very floor where "classroom" scenes were filmed for Topgun movie) with VF-1, we had to fight them for hangar space as they constantly inspected those airframes for cracks around the wing folding mechanism and landing gear. Each time took several days, with the AMS and AMH shops working round the clock. The public has this high regard for the phantom as do its aircrews. For those involved with maintenance, or the congressional budgeting of same, they were a nightmare. Since the A birds had that horrible engine and as they aged they couldnt be fully utilized, for perhaps ten years at best the Tomcat was what people think it was. About 1986 on.

Nice compilation.

Beautiful compilation! Anytime, Baby!

Dude... that was sick. Great job. Too bad the last song faded before that sick base solo from Tool though :) Tomcats forever!

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the first of the 4th-generation fighters. The only F-14 user with the most kills is Iran.

Beautiful

The greatest fighter ever made. This proves how incredibly capable it was. Killing a MIG-29 in a high G tight turn (which USSR used to "claim" could do almost 10G sustained).

@LRRPFco52

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone can cherry-pick HUD footage after an exercise to make their bird look great, which is the norm. Notice how they don't show any HUD footage of the F-16. A big challenge for the MiG-29 was understanding what was going on in front of him with limited pilot-radar interface, and the poor nature of the IRST. A Tomcat flight would simply wreck MiG-29s, provided the Tomcat drivers and RIOs were experienced enough to gel together and manage the Long Range Joust converting to near-visual range. As long as more experienced crews were in the seat in the WVR against MiG-29, they would do well, but then had to face the Helmet-cued Archer R-73, which was one of the only things that actually worked well in the weapons suite for the Fulcrum.

@TonymanCS

5 жыл бұрын

@@LRRPFco52 One of the Tomcat's biggest stick is its Phoenix. Good luck dodging 2-4 of them, loosing all your energy and then becoming easy prey IRL, especially when it comes to smokeless version. The Cat is truly a wonderful combination of both BVR and WVR capabilities.

@LRRPFco52

5 жыл бұрын

@@TonymanCS They rarely carried the AIM-54, & when they did, never more than 2 because of bring back. When they attempted to use the AIM-54C in Desert Storm, they fell to the earth like a bomb. Iranians spent all their -54As against the Iraqis. There were some pretty nasty -54 tactics that enjoyed a more generous NEZ, but it was always a question about juice vs squeeze.

@TonymanCS

5 жыл бұрын

@@LRRPFco52 sounds like issues with storage to me, the same thing that had happened to Sparrows during Vietnam War.

@LRRPFco52

5 жыл бұрын

@@TonymanCS An investigation pointed to the missiles not being armed by the ordnance guys on the carrier. Seems strange that they would do that, since they have specific checklists and flags to pull from the weapons. AIM-54s were stored in sealed and padded containers, very expensive. CAT launches and traps are hard on weapons in addition to maritime environment. Some of the worst maintenance stories I've ever heard are from Tomcat wrenchers.

Awesome Soundtracks.

Go to 2:52 and pause. Go to 1/4x speed playback and enjoy the Tomcats differential horizontal tabs as work. Very Vark'ish/BONE'ish.

Happy 50th the mighty fighter. F-14 Tomcat. Best of the best! "Anytime Baby!"

4:46 "Bandit's on you!"

Wow I need new pants...thanks for posting!!!!!

CLASS

Awesome!

Nice!!

Cool, thanks!

Too bad the Navy screwed over the F-14 by retiring it. Would have been nice to see that Super Tomcat replace it.

@batvette

6 ай бұрын

High maintenance costs and over half the airframes having stress cracks ended the program. Maintenance man hours per flight hour was insane. That translates to low ready rate for deployed squadrons who can only berth so many men on the CV.

F14 the greatest fighter ever made.

@eac1235

6 ай бұрын

F 15 Eagle

I'm not sure if it is or not

Is 05:30 from one of the shootdowns over the Gulf of Sidra?

Can you help me find the footage of that aim 54C shot in 1984?

You still active on KZread? I’m working on a long form Tomcat project and I’ve got some questions for you about this video.

@okisoba

6 ай бұрын

what're your questions? Nearly all of this footage came from the "Fighter Fling" and Cruise videos from the F-14 squadrons. You can find most of them on KZread and might be able to find DVDs of them on eBay.

Did I see Greek Mirages?

@becauseiwasinverted5222

7 жыл бұрын

looks like it

@180791sanguinius

6 жыл бұрын

Defo looks like it. Just for a split second though, so I can't be sure. You can tell the French ones, at this low quality, due to the lack of a Fin Flash. I am pretty sure the one that broke left (3:55) with the Magics and the 530s was a Greek one.

The gunsight looks so much more stable and predictable than heatblurs version in dcs F14B. Gunsight in dcs F14 is all over the place. Overall for bfm dcs f14b in its current build flight characteristics to me seem pretty all over the place. It's like if manic depresssive bipolar mania was a flight model. Completely different, little to no consistency highly volatile will kill me or get me killed with wrong control input, except situationally/regime-wise there seems to never be correct control input will never give me what I need from it when it really counts, which is funny bc it didn't seem to be that way to me when dcs F14B was my main pvp bfm squeeze during covid lockdown. Thing feels completely different now, dcs f14 is so wretched compared to F15,16,18, su27, m2k performance-wise in pvp bfm, if I wanna fly it and have good chance of winning, I'm confined to single player bfm vs AI

With equal drivers, an F-14 isn't gonna get the best of an F-15 or F-16 the majority of the time.

@okisoba

5 жыл бұрын

Smart drivers won't try to put themselves in a position where things are equal :)

@SideSwipeGTA

2 жыл бұрын

@@okisoba That's right. If you're not cheating you're not trying.

@thunderboltcougar5626

7 ай бұрын

Equal drivers? You sure about that? Apparently you'r not aware that in the old days, F14A *WITH* equal drivers *HAD* floored both F15 & F16 in their A model. Where do you think the slogan of 'Anytime Baby' came from? Remember the story when the '16's pilot commenting that his airplane suddenly "stop turning" in a radius fight against some random tomcat's pilot? (Only found out during debrief, that his '16 stop turning, because it lose energy faster than the '14, allowing the '14 to 'just a walk in park' to get into his six) or when the '15 pilots repeatedly made the same mistakes for different reason w/ the former? And, no, they'r just regular '14 pilots, not the legend like Snort, Hoser, etc. Even after they devised a "proper" new tactic, it still fruitless, until they both obtained the C model, that "equal pilot" able to enjoy superiority of their new machine by utilizing the tactic, over the '14 while it still in its old A model.

@taylorc2542

7 ай бұрын

@@thunderboltcougar5626 Yes, you're talking about ACEVAL/AIMVAL, which was mostly Navy instructors against USAF operational units. It's a Navy myth. If you want to hear how it really went, read "Okie" Nance (F-14 pilot) state how the F-14 was always at a WVR disadvantage against the other teen series. Also google F-16N and read just how dominate it was at Top Gun.

@eac1235

6 ай бұрын

​@thunderboltcougar5626 Get real sir. The F 15 or 16 would win 7 times out of 10.

Dude,if your gonna make a video called "F-14 vs everything" then dont put other fighter jets in the video,focus on the f-14 not the F-16 and other fighter jets..

@dannyboyemt

7 жыл бұрын

Casey Stanton did you not realize this is the Tomcat killing "everything" as the title emplies. It's all gun camera footage of the F14 taking on various other platforms.

@KLRGT500KR

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, actual mock excercise HUD video of F-14 killing F-15, F-16, F-18 Super hornet, MIG-29 etc.