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| A single tailed F-14??? I never knew such a thing existed or was tested! |
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| I don't know what became of this missile. It looks like a boosted AAM but I can't find it in US aviation historical registries. |
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Ahh... GD's AAAM, what the AMRAAM could have been.
ReplyDelete*cough* "Westinghouse" ;-)
DeleteGD was the Primary
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Is the one in the picture above (with the strakes being launched from a Tomcat) an earlier or later iteration of that missile?
DeleteGiven that the program started in 1988 and the following FlightGlobal article appeared in 1989:
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I would say that the one with the folding strakes was older.
The single tail (also a pair of folding vertical stabs) F14 is actually a mock-up of one of the various F14 designs, known as 303B. The winning twin tail design is 303E.
ReplyDeleteThe single-tail Tomcat was a mock-up. It never flew and was prior to the final design that went into service.
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