When I was in the U.S Army I spent quite a bit of time with a U.S.A.F F-15E pilot. Before the EAgle he flew the F-111. He had done an exchange with the RAF. He liked the Tornado however, he said in his opinion he thought it was underpowered and hoped the Europeans would give it improved engines. This was back in the mid 90s when I was in Bosnia.

Few things from Autistic Tornado nerd (Tornado is my favourite aircraft) 'The GR1 never had its ramp intakes connected so M1.15 was about its top-end - unlike F3 which did have the ramps connected and could make M2.0 (M2.15 was my personal best in a jet straight off the tanker with no LAUs fitted).' '... the GR1 did have the intake ramps connected, but was limited to M1.3 AFAICR. They were wire-locked shut sometime early 90's I think, same with the Kreuger flaps. 920kts is a bit optimistic. I did a tour at TTTE at Cottesmore flying clean GR1's (no pylons either). It was a real sportscar but 900kts - no chance (unless I was an even bigger wimp :sad:). Supercruise? - yes, occasionally. But with double the thrust in reheat, why sit in dry power? [Your] fuel burn figures are slightly pessimistic for the TTTE jets; they were quite slick. Never flew a truly clean GR4, only managed clean but with pylons on test flights so more drag.'

F-14 has gone Mach 1.3 or around 840 knots at 50 feet above sea level. This comes from Allen Shoe Mullen who was one of the pilots who flew F-14 in the Final Countdown movie.

Cleared to 800knots on the deck was originally 750knots, this is per the manuals.

AFAIK, during the 80's the Tomcat lost the retractable canards (or glove vanes), and then the variable intake ramps, due to maintenance concerns. The loss of those two things limited its max speed to less than Mach 2.

What would be fun to watch would be if you could interview a crew (pilot and navigator) together.

What would it have managed with the full afterburner euro fighter engine?

I remember hearing A USN F-14 pilot talk about going 150 to 600 at wings level at 10,000 feet in 9 seconds. He was elaborating just after that as to why an F-18 cannot run and has to turn and fight because it lacks the power to run away.

His answer was the same as mine as fast as mine until AI "saved" it with air density altitude equations. Now the people reflexively angry at the question, rather than laughing at it, will have something to smile about while they inwardly recoil.

Where is this video taken

Hunh just looked it up the F14D was slower, (even with more thrust) I guess it had a fixed air intake ramp...

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The headline illustration shows an F-14 and a North American Aviation A3J (later A-3) Vigilante. The actual video seems quite interesting but I was confused by the first photo.

Which Tomcat though? The A or B version? The F-14B could easily break the soundbarrier and maintain supersonic flight without using afterburner at altitude with a reasonably light fuel load, not a chance Tornado could do that!

I dont actually know. Both were really fast

operation pitch black 2022 outside the fence 650 m from the start of the runway sitting on a log the tornados look old and second-hand the F-35 screamed into the air rolling before the one in front left the ground the tornadoes German I think sat there for sometimes 3 minutes waiting for stable air conditions from the plane before turbulence and then rolled away like a nanny pushing a pram. I know some people just love some aeroplanes, sell them to Pakistan

In a steep climb the f-3

the F15 was the fastest nato ever made

F-14 was faster everywhere. High altitude or low altitude. F-14 is famous for hitting 820 - 840 knots on the deck and did Mach 2.5+ at 40,000 feet in testing or maintenance checks many times as per test pilots and USN aviators.

F-14 final answer.