Making a Naval F-15 to Rival the F-14 and this happened...

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Top Gun was filmed on the F-14 and the F-14 is the star of the film. But the F-15 was a contender. Where was at the time a possibility that the F-15 Eagle was adopted as a carrier aircraft in place of the F-14 Tomcat.

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MillenniumHistoryTech

You know the F15A Eagle was actually in the movie, just not in the usual way?
When Goose meet up with his wife and son, the son actually has a TransFormers Starscream Decepticon figure in his hand, which was transformed into its vehicle mode aka F15A Eagle !

Gripen

Actually the f-4 phantom was developed for the navy and the air force adopted it.

bcadoo

The funny thing is that combat in Top Gun was all about the dogfight. I don't recall BVR engagements (the F-14's greatest strength) ever being a part of the plot.

Ostsol

A most informative video as always. The F-14 was what the U.S Navy needed, too bad a good engine was simply not available for some time until the GE F110 showed up so late in its life.

cannonfodder

It's important to note that the F14A's engine was designed for a less maneuverable bomber sized aircraft meant to shoot down soviet bombers from long range. The F-111B. That project was scrapped, and the agile F14 was designed to replace it. In order to save money, they put the engine of the scrapped interceptor into the F14A.

The F14A's engine wasn't bad, it just wasn't designed to be used in a highly maneuverable fighter. It couldn't handle the high angles of attack the F14 was capable of, leading to the compressor stall issues. The F14B had a new engine which solved this issue.

Dubanx

F14 was a rockstar... it was expensive, hard to work with, high maintenance... but when put on the stage and into it's element, nothing out there could ever touch it, legendary aircraft...

sohrabroozbahani

There was a mention of how the USN did not have an issue using the F-4 Phantom II that was being used by the USAF. Technically, it is the reverse. The F-4 started off as a Navy aircraft that was adopted by the USAF. The Air Force did not have any problems using Naval aircraft designs as it is easier to de-navalize an aircraft than it is to navalize it.

rokuth

My brother worked on an updated Phoenix missile with all new electronics and Nuclear warhead capable. It was just months away from being possible to deploy when the Soviet Union fell apart. He also explain how the Awg-9 worked with small carrier AWACS and was capable of coordinating an attack on upto 24 targets at one time. Of course this would take 4+ F-14... Anyway in its role as long range fleet defense, it was beautiful.

warhappens-com

Quite a bit of study was done on a navalized F-16 variant as well, though it must be mentioned the US Navy did procure a few specialized F-16Ns as Top Gun aggressors.

BlitzvogelMobius

Was a mech for many years on the F-14. Learned more about the bird and, the why she came to be than I ever did during my active years.

franklinlewis

Thank you for this video, The comparative history of these two standout planes is priceless. It's like a graduate level course in the logical progression of aircraft development!

kwatt-engineer

I really enjoyed your VERY professional and comprehensive presentation! I always thought the cost of the F-14 was much higher due to the complexity of the variable sweep wings, not it's weapon systems. In the end, though, maintenance costs were cited as the US Navy's decision to retire it.

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