Grumman F-14 Tomcat Manual: All models 1970-2006

Insights into operating and maintaining the US Navy's legendary variable geometry carrier-based air superiority fighter.

Probably best-known for its starring role in the Hollywood movie Top Gun, the
variable geometry two-seat carrier-based Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the US Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter and fleet defence interceptor between 1974and 2006. Tony Holmes reviews the design, construction and use of the Tomcat, as well as its combat career in Operation Desert Storm (1991), Deliberate Force (Bosnia- Hertzegovina, 1995), and Allied Force (Bosnia and Kosovo, 1999). In 2001, F-14s led some of the first strikes into Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom), and in Iraq in 2003 (Operation Iraqi Freedom).