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liam (Liono) Chief Captain
Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 1094 Location: Northwich (Cheshire) England.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:45 am

A bit late I know and no one else has posted about this but the F-14 has retired. Have a read from USA today ➡

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-16-navy-tomcat_x.htm

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CRJCapt Chief Captain
Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 3729 Location: Ohio,USA
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:02 am

From the article above:

"Sophisticated missiles have made its specialty, aerial dogfighting, obsolete. Opposing aircraft target each other from miles away, often before the pilots can see each other except on radar. "

Bull! They said the same thing back in Viet Nam when they built the F-4 without a gun, then had to scramble to add the gun when they realized they still had to dogfight. The military doesn't learn from their own mistakes. It's sad to see the Tomcat go. I guess it was getting expensive to maintain but I'd rather have the Tomcat and cancel the B-2 Stealth bombers. I love the Tomcat and I still love the movie Top Gun. 😞

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Tailhook Chief Captain
Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 7026 Location: El Dorado
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:59 am

➡ https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/12265/sad-news/

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hms_endeavour Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 03, 2004 Posts: 1353 Location: In the sky
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:06 am

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