The latest trailer for Top Gun: Maverick features a number of real-life fighter jets. But what do these specific jets bring to the table? Top Gun: Maverick is a direct sequel to Top Gun, and will hit theaters 34-years after the original debuted in 1986. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top …
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Credits: Paramount Pictures The trailer of Tom Cruise’s long-awaited Top Gun sequel has been released, and it appears that the F-14 tomcat dogfight the Su-57 stealth fighter jet in Top Gun: Maverick. A brief scene from the newly released trailer for Top Gun: Maverick shows Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw – the …
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F-14 TOMCAT Vs F-15 EAGLE: The U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat and the U.S. Airforce F-15 Eagle are two of the best fighter jets ever built. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather …
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Two F-14 Tomcats as seen in DCS World. (Photo: Eagle Dynamics/Heatblur Simulations) The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. This first two air-to-air fights of the F-14 happened over the Gulf of Sidra, on the northern coast of Libya, in 1981 and …
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The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) was one of the most awesome fighters of the Cold War. The MiG-25 was a magnificent aircraft in many ways, capable of flying in excess of Mach 3 and at altitudes, few aircraft could reach. The formidable performance parameters of the Foxbat were soon …
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RQ-170 Sentinel at Anderson AFB in Guam – Credits: The United States Air Force photograph, released to Joseph Trevithick via FOIA Iranian reports claim that U.S. surveillance flights over its territory, using advanced reconnaissance drones such as the RQ-170, targeted nuclear sites, in particular, to gather intelligence on these priority …
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This footage below has surfaced on Twitter captures an incredible moment as an F-14D makes a close, high speed, pass to overtake another Tomcat, possibly the flight leader or wingman. The jet’s wings are fully swept for a very high-speed pass followed by a sharp crossing maneuver. Tomcat… pic.twitter.com/XHWUXODVSx— DutchSpace …
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F-14B Tomcat onboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). (U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Philip V. Morrill) (Released) The Cradle of Aviation Museum is set to continue the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the F-14 Tomcat fighter Jet. According to Patch.com, The Cradle of Aviation Museum and …
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Taken during Operation Desert Storm on board USS Saratoga (CV-60), the shocking video in this post-show is a VAW-125 Tigertails E-2C Hawkeye sliding on the oily flight deck while taxing aft to the waist catapults. While sliding on the flight deck, the E-2C cut off the nose of an F-14 …
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Following a U.S. drone strike on the convoy of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps General Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad International Airport, which claimed the life of the senior commander and two dozen others, Tehran has vowed to respond with a “crushing revenge” sparking a rise in tensions across the Middle East. …
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