The F-14 Tomcat

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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