F-14 Tomcat
F-14 Tomcat (Combat Aircraft Series 5) By Lindsay Peacock
Publisher: Osprey Pub 1986 | 44 Pages | ISBN: 0850457203 | PDF | 61 MB
Publisher: Osprey Pub 1986 | 44 Pages | ISBN: 0850457203 | PDF | 61 MB
FINDING a replacement for the almost incredibly versatile McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was never going to be easy although as far as the US Navy was concerned it was perhaps a slightly less complex matter than that faced by the Air Force. Certainly, from the Navy's viewpoint, the basic task to be fulfilled by any new fighter type—that of fleet defence—must have simplified matters greatly, for this service had, historically, tended to pursue a 'horses for courses" philosophy. Thus, when it came to procurement. Naval aircraft were almost invariably closely tailored for a specific mission, classic examples of this single-minded policy being the Grumman A-6 Intruder medium attack aircraft and the Chance Vought F-8 Crusader interceptor.