The Phoenix was an achievement in its day, a 13-foot-long missile with a 100-mile range. Coupled with the F-14’s long-range AWG-9 radar, the Tomcat/Phoenix was supposed to shoot down Soviet bombers ...

PHOENIX — It’s too early in December for Santa Claus to be flying so the U.S. Army offered an explanation for the white streak seen shooting across Arizona skies Thursday morning — a missile testing.

When people think of legendary fighter jets, the F-14 Tomcat immediately comes to mind. Immortalized in Top Gun and The Final Countdown, the Tomcat is often remembered as a pilot-maker, launching ...

Iran has begun mass production of a long-range air-to-air missile. And if it looks familiar, it should. The Fakour 90 is Tehran’s knockoff of the U.S. AIM-54 Phoenix missile, once... We use cookies to ...

What if America’s greatest fighter, the U.S. Navy’s greatest icon, had been scrapped, not for its slowness and clumsiness, but due to a single, persistent engineering flaw? During the 1970s, the F-14 ...

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