# GRUMMAN F-14 TOMCAT AIR TO AIR COMBAT PROMOTIONAL FILM 80534

Made by Grumman Aerospace to promote their newest high-performance aircraft F-14 ONE OF A KIND celebrates the Navy's F-14 Tomcat, and features comments by Navy pilots and commanders. It gives an impressive overview of this amazing airplane. The opening of the film discusses how a multi-role interceptor is needed that can also "go it alone", with long-range capabilities -- and then states that the only aircraft in the world capable of performing that multi-role today is the F-14. The F-14 combines a high performance airframe with the Phoenix missile system AIM-54A, which can destroy targets air-to-air at long and short ranges. The film includes a wide variety of footage including of Soviet MiGs, Backdraft bombers and tactical interceptors starting at 1:20 , and images of the Soviet missile systems shown at 6:00 including air, submarine-launched and other guided missile systems. At 6:30 , the F-14's airborne radar systems are shown in operation performing an intercept. At 7:23 , Phoenix missile tests are shown striking a variety of drone targets. At 9:00 , the aircraft's two-man cockpit is shown with its ECM components and highly automated systems. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American teen-series fighters, which were designed…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/80534F14OneOfAKind)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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