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Grumman F-14A Tomcat. The digital F-14O is to enter ser vice in 1993, providing the thrust/weight performance the US Navyhad sought to introduce in the mid seventies' F-148, which was cancelled for budgetary reasons leaving the USN with a fleet of underpowered TF-30 fitted A models. The F-14O has an avionic system very similar to that of the FlA-18 and is fitted with an upgraded digital APG-71 radar set and GE Infrared Search and Track Set, while retaining the Nor throp TCS stabilised TV telescope system
Technology Explained – US Tactical Aviation Pt 111
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US Naval Tactical Aviation
Part III The F-140 and F1A-18E1F
The cancellation earlier this year ofthe US Navy’s A-12A ATA program has left a serious gap in USN maritime strike capability (refer previous issue), as the geriatric A-6E is derived from late fifties airframe technology and lacks the aerodynamic performance and stealth capability to effectively penetrate high threat environments.
Interim measures to offset some of this loss in capability include the acquisition of the stretched F/A-18E/F and possibly the modification of the existing F-14 force to provide an additional strike capability.
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