they are still in use bro maybe not for the USA but others love it

@@rickieleeglenn6484 literally just iran

The Tomcat and the Phoenix missile may have prevented WWIII. The Russians never thought they could win so they never tossed the dice.

Prettiest fighter plane ever built.

No, you are all have tumor in your eyes. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the most beautiful planes ever made.

The F-14 the Phoenix missile and when she is on the carrier that she has she sang very loudly in her own it's just like if you hear a P-51 Mustang flying over you when you hear the F-14 she's screaming that's all lot of power that they have for that thing

The F-14 oh, it's served its purpose cuz we never had any problems because we had it The Fleets were protected with the Phoenix missile

Both of those craft had anti-shipping missiles on them so they didn't number one target say goodbye

Even when it's not flying. I have a desktop model of it, and it just looks like it's made to be nice and fast. No other fighter plane looks so nice.

No, The F-16 Fighting Falcon is the most beautiful planes ever made.

@@B501R bruh

Tomcat is very ugly. Only Phantom, both Hornets and Eagle

@@paulinagabrys8874 no

Ikr

Best looking thing ever created by human beings in my opinion. 😎👍

Sure all of you do

Lots and lots of F15s, F16s and some F4s along with C130s over my house. We did get some Navy stuff but more helicopters than fixed wing. The helps were probably shutting officers to another base.

sexiest aircraft ever built.

itildude damn right, damn shame they don't use them anymore

Commissar Evan The reason why they retired the F-14B/D is because it was too expensive, difficult to fix it, it was meant for interceptor not multirole fighters, and they don't want Iran to get their hands on F-14 parts. So they decide to choose F-18E/F Super Hornet to replace F-14B/D.

@Professor raccoon that's awesome my father served on the USS Ranger in the 80s where he worked on them.

Would you kindly contact filmmakers and give them some of precious footage of a Libyan MiG-23 flight from your equally precious MiG video collection? Thank you.

Exactly, Michael

yes I knew this right away..

i am a bit upset that they didn't show the actual video. also i'm your 69th like

Ya

I agree. There is no F/A-18 that has the performance, especially the range, to match the F-14.

Good opionion xusn

You're right.

The only thing the tomcat needed was to be upgraded, like the f15 f16 f18... the Tomcat dominated.

Lambo...

Tomcat is a graceful beautiful aircraft

Tomcat was just the tomcat of the skies, theres nothing else like it.

Striking Phoenix while i agree the F22 is a far superior and in my opinion more beautiful airplane, a GTR is in no way superior to a Ferrari.

@Snobby Erusean Valley Girl I know, I just managed to defeat a 458 with my R34, lol

correction... WAS the #1... in 2020, just pots and pans now

The first super sonic plane on a aircraft carrier

I think its because Israel found a conflict of interest that America was selling the Tomcat to Iran, Israel hates Iran. Often Israel has the most influence in USA so they got that jet decomissioned so no new ones or spares for Iran.

Shady political deals and money lobbying is the reason

Eye candy....that's all.

To me F-15, F-16, F-22, SU-35, Jas 39 Gripen, Dassault Rafale and B1-B are much better looking. But I guess the beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Majority of the people say, F-14 is far more beautiful than F-16, F15 etc. It is indeed the most perfectly proportioned fighter ever made.

Well, each person has his favorite. F-5 is also a beautiful plane. As well as Starfighter. Examples of ugly planes are Mig-21 or F-35. Mig-21 looks like a tube with a cone trying to push through from the front. While F-35 can simply be described as "flying barrel".

Zex Konjina I can agree on that. F-35 is just about the ugliest thing I have ever seen.

Zex Konjina--lol the "flying barrel"!!!!!!

'twas a bad idea ☠☠

De acuerdo totalmente contigo, una belleza volante, si aun volara fuera un temido adversario para cualquiera que lo confrontara. Creo que los Iraníes son los únicos que todavía los vuelan, como los mantienen en servicio? no tengo idea.

Good catch...DOH!

Splash 1 good kill good kill!

Happened again in 1989. The Liyban MIGs attacked two F-14s and got shot down.

Unless they ejected, I doubt if they had the opportunity to swim.

Actually, aircraft in 1981 were SU-22 not Migs.

@@patrickmccrann991 Thank you for correcting this aviation fools

I was on the USS Forrestal since we were the junkier Carrier our F-4's did the initial intercept VMFA-115 and VF-74 22 Migs then the second day they sent up fitters to mess with a S-3 doing Low Level sub readings very close to the shore the Fitters were intercepted by F-14's and made the Grave mistake firng 20 MM gun on the TOMCAT August 19 1981 my 25th B-Day was the 21st VMFA-115 89-83

Grim Reaper squadron...cousin flew with them for 1 year.

The Grim Reapers (VF 101) were the East Coast Fleet Replacement Squadron. The Jolly Rogers (VF103) were an operational Tomcat squadron.

yes me too, although they are actually from the USS NIMITZ

The jolly rogers tomcat is the most iconic fighter that ever lived, IMO. Especially the 70s/early 80s high res schemes. The "cool factor" is unbeatable

I believe it

so only one of the tomcats were shot down and 5 of the eagles were shot down right?

VF-103 is just eye candy because of the skull & bones iconography. 🙄

The most beautiful fighter in the world is the F4U Corsair, the gull wing was to allow the huge prop to miss striking the ground. The F14 was in 2nd place in my book. Retired Navy Master Chief here Search & Rescue crewman with 20+ years flying so I have a little knowledge of what I'm talking about. However, everything is subjective. BTW the F4 Phantom was a beautiful bird also. It could burn enough fuel in 60 seconds to fuel the average American gas guzzler of the 60s and 70s from coast to coast. That is a fact. Another bird the F8 Crusader the last of the gunfighters.

f18 in 4th place

That Alpha sucked (the TF-30 was a shitty engine)..... Bravos and Deltas were better.

Hhhhhh. You made me laughing just wake up from u are dreaming

Lolz Viktor Belenko admitted that they were aware that the Tomcat had powerful radar and longer range of missiles at that time. Thats why this aircraft shotdown vaunted MiG-25s in Iraq-Iran War

Your way of saying that the f-14 was an airplane with capabilities that made it terrifying is more a provocation because of the way it was written

@@nikolaymikoyan7645 it did kill a bunch of Russian jets

@@MichaelKing-tp6le yes in did at long range fight thanks to BVR capability but in dogfight u can dream just mig21 can choot it down

+Charles Frazier Give me a pen n ill not be Shakespeare or sumfin'. This is equipment kiddie. True weapon is sitting inside.

+Piotr Kurek It is all one machine. No time for emotion.

F-15 is included? Like on those mock exercises and all

+Michel Morningstar Yeah, VF-101 Navy Grim Reapers did a mock exercise against the 159 AF F15s. 4 F-14s against 6 F-15s. Mind you, these were the F-14Ds with the 32,000 lbs increased thrust GE-110 engines. Not the old TF-30 engines. One F-14D was "shot down" against 5 F-15s were "splashed".

KLRGT500KR Still the best! Too bad it was so expensive tho

Hi - The planes that shot down the Libyan jets were, in fact, from the USS Nimitz, CVN-68. I know because I was there on August 19, 1981, when the shootdown happened. I was ship's company on the Nimitz, and worked in the AIMD, WC630, on the AWG9 radar for the F-14. This video seems to borrow a lot of footage from the movie The Final Countdown, because the two planes were shot down by F-14s from VF-41 (Black Aces) and NOT VF-84 (Jolly Rogers).

Jay Burton That was the 1981 incident (SU-22) . this video is about the 1989 one (MIG-23)

sparrowlt Very well. The rest of comments stand; much of the video is from The FInal Countdown.

Jay Burton and the MIGs are soviet ones, not Lybians.. is clear that they made up the video editing footage from various sources.. at least they didnt used the "MIG-28" explosion from Top Gun

sparrowlt US Air Force is "one of the most powerful weapons in the world ." Although the Libyan air force was small and not well developed compared to the United States Air Force, But a Libyan pilot leads SU-22M3K plane .. managed to bring down the F14 plane (Tom Cat) ... I think the US pilot name was Henry Martin Clement .. this is his photo facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203336222886310&set=pcb.10203336230486500&type=1

Lame ass migs

Shut up ya’ll capitalist tomcat simps

@@keyaw.9132 communists sucks

Этож мультик, омэрика побеждаэ

F-14 won the air war for Iran in the first gulf war against sadams strongest war machine with west behind his back

@@MrWtf4life saddam is western enemy. Do you think saddam is western ally? Look america invade his country and executed him. Because he support the hijackers at 9/11 attack. Which the hijackers can enter the palne easily and when the plane was crashed all the data including the hijackers is hidden

@@antoniussamuelson3748 Saddam was supported by the west in the Iran Iraq war because we at the time, hated Iran more you Troglodyte

@@ThatPCGamingNoob ah really? If saddam was supoirt by the west, the west worry about his action. Why they worry that saddam will invade saudi arabia? How could they support saddam? Anyway saddam's weapon mostly from soviet union. He has soviet SAM and SU 22, SU 25, SU 23 jet fighters. Iran use f 14 tomcat from US.

@@ThatPCGamingNoob the question is why they worry about saddam action in middle east after he attack kuwait?

Puno seresh!

Fly, Fight, Win!

Fuck off...bait the planes..then blindside them with cheap shots...panic stricken American pilots shooting off

@@mig23flogger88 Russian planes sucks

This actually is the audio from the Jan 1989 shoot down of the two Mig 23s by VF-32 Swordsmen from the USS JFK. The call sign heard in the initial contact call from the E-2 to the Tomcat flight leader is "Gypsy 207". I believe Gypsy 202 was the wingman on this flight. Gypsy was the callsign of VF-32 Swordsmen. During this incident you keep hearing "Fox one" being called by the pilot early in the engagement. This indicates an AIM-7 Sparrow missile shot. During the 1981 incident, the two VF-41 F-14s from the Nimitz killed the two SU-22s with AIM-9L Sidewinders with no Sparrows fired. I believe in this audio from the1989 incident, at least one of our Sparrows missed, however I think the 2nd Mig 23 was downed by a Sidewinder since the last couple of missile shot calls are "Fox two".

With the PC culture of today the Jolly Roger will not survive. Oh my god a "skull and cross bones". Same as the Marine Corp VMAQ2 flying the EA6B. The Playboy Bunny VMAQ2 was the only squadron/military unit to be officially allowed to have/display the Bunny on their aircraft and squadron patches. Hugh Hefner personally approved the trade mark use. Hey just a little bit of trivia.

+alessandro cinalli mig25 :P

F14 1970 MIG 25 1970

mig25 = 1964 f14 = copy of mig25 1970

A Cat from the Ironworks. It is badass.

@@TheTata2tatakazika f14 wasn't a copy go tell google and go away if ur mig fan and they dont care about you

And we shot F117 in 1999 war....we didnt know it was invisible.....sorry.

Dusan Radin That was luck, I'd like to see you Serbians do it again.

Sure...just send more our way Luck?Keep telling that to yourself. .

Yes but VF-41 was 1st

hey remind me what happened to belgrade serbbro the reason why the f117 was shot is becuase the US flied in predictable patterns. you guys shot it down completely by luck. anyway, you only shot 1 down. you were never able to shoot down the rest. mhmhmh i love the smell of depleted uranium in belgrade.

Your right about VF-41 But the other was VF-32

Против МиГ 25? МиГ уйдет от ракеты на форсаже. Привет Израилетянам. ХА ХА ХА ХА ХА

Just wondering: Can you express an intelligible thought without using the F-bomb? Is that the only adjective you know? I'm not a prude but for crying out loud, we're talking fighter jets here not your bedroom antics.

If they were gonna replace the f35 with any plane it would at least be the f22

Spjungen your right the f 35 its just a stupid garbage cans

Zex Konjina--lol the "flying barrel"!!!!!!

Gary Jepsen smh prude ass