The GRUMMAN Tomcat is a navy designated fighter
it's a two seat
fighter with wing sweepback from 20 deg. to 68
deg(75deg. for storing on carriers).
Won the US Navy VFX fighter competition on january
15 1969,first flight on december 21 1970 , the last 102 tomcats had improved
TF30-P-414A turbofans, engine power 93 kN.
The F-14A had small canards extended forward progressively
to 15 deg. from inboard leading edge to balance supersonic trim change
and unload tail surfaces.
The movement of the wings is controlled automatically
with an option of manual override unlike his Russian counterpart that has
only manual wind sweepback control.
The F-14 has an automatic carrier landing system(ALCS).
POWER PLANT ----- (F-14B/D)
two General electric
F110-GE-400 with thrust
71.56 kN Dry and 120.1 kN with afterburner
Fuel---
Integral fuel tanks
in outer wings with campasity
of 1,117 litres
each ,another tank is betwen the two engines
in the rear fuselage
it has a compasity of 2,453 litres, and
in the forward fuselage(between
the wings) with another
2,616 litres , two
feeder tanks with combined compasity of
1,726 litres ,total
fuel compasity is 9,029 litres.
the F-14 has an
option for auxialiary detacheble fuel tanks
2X1,011 litres,
the F-14 has a retractable refueling probe.
WEAPONS AND WEAPOR SYSTEMS---
In the F-14A - hughes
AN/AWG-9 weapons control system
with detect range
of than 65-170nm(120-135km;75-195miles)
the system has an
ability to track 24 enemy targets and
attack six of them
simultaneously at varied altitudes and
distances and a
kaiser Aerospace AN/AVG-12 vercical
and head-up display
system.
one GE M61A-1 vulcan
20mm gun with 675 rounds of
ammunition. Four
AIM-7 Sparrow or four AIM-54 Pheonix
missiles.
Two wing pylons
,one under each fixed wing selection can
carry four AIM-9
or two aditional Sparrow or Pheonix
missiles with two
sidewinders.
The F-14D has bombong
capability ,Rockeye and GBU-59
cluster bombs ,GBU-16
LGB and Gator mine to folow
AGM-88 Harm ARM
and SLAM ASMs planned.
Weight---
Empty 18,951kg
Fuel campasity---
Internal 7,348kg
External 1,724kg
T-O weight---
fighter 29,072kg
fleet air defence
mission 33,157kg
max 33,724kg
Preformance---(f100)
Max level speed
Mach 1.88
Max normal operating
speed Mach 0.72
Carrier appriach
125knots
Service ceiling
above 16,150m
T-O run(field) 762m
Landing run(field)
732m
Range (with external
fuel) approx 1,600nm
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