"John Mullen" wrote in message
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rstro wrote:

Ok let's see what you experts are made of.... other than the sake of
politics, why would the Navy "replace" F14 Tomcat with the F18 Super
Dud???
Unless the navy has kept some performance numbers secret--the F18 can't
even
carry the Tomcats drop tank!--I understand the operational cost --but
hell
the F18 can't carry half the weapon load, nor has the range.

"Lucy--you have some splainin to do!"


The F-14 was past its best. The F-18 is a better plane. Simple.


Better strike aircraft perhaps but it being a better fighter is doubtful.

As I understand it the problem with the F-14 is maintainability,
it just needs to many hours of maintenance for each flying hour.

Keith