Grumman F-14 Tomcat

I'm curious does anyone know or at least have a general idea the weight of the F-14 wings with winglove and the sweep mechanism? Either empty weight or fueled would great.
 
Has anyone got any information in relation to the proposed F-14C variant?

What constituted the difference in F-14C, compared to the F-14A?

All that I can find is that it was suppose to be powered by General Electric F101DFE engines.....

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Pioneer
 
Initially, F-14A was the initial variant with TF30 engines, the planned F-14B added F401 engines, and the slightly hazier F-14C would have more advanced avionics. The designation might have been reused for other proposals though.
 
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Has anyone got any information in relation to the proposed F-14C variant?

What constituted the difference in F-14C, compared to the F-14A?

All that I can find is that it was suppose to be powered by General Electric F101DFE engines.....

Regards
Pioneer
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The answer is in this post in the F-14 projects thread:


The details are in the linked transcripts.

Roughly speaking, the original plan was for the F-14A to have the capability it had plus attack capability equal to an A-7. The attack capability got deleted. The F-14B was an A with F401 engines. There were only suppost to be 70 some A models, with the rest of the original run being B models.

The C was a future upgrade with a phased array radar, though what kind of phased array is deleted in the transcript. It would also have full all-weather attack capability, but from the transcript it isn't clear if that was by intent or simply a function of the new radar having the potential to do that so they would include it.

The flow is basically A, A with new engines is the B, B with new phased array radar is the C. In terms of capability it would be A, B would have improved dogfighting capability along with range and loiter times due to the new engine over the A, C would have improved beyond visual range capability due to the new radar along with all weather ground attack capability due to the new radar over the B.
 
Thank you apparition13 much appreciated!


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Pioneer
 
Does anyone have images of the Iranian F-14s escorting Putin and the four Su-35s during the journey to UAE ?
 
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I don't know the validity of this information but in this recent interview, F-14 Ace Fereydoon "Ferry" Ali-Mazandarani claims that 10 AIM-54C were clandestinely delivered to Iran during Iran-Contra in 1986. The transfer was allegedly facilitated by Albert Hakim, an Iranian-Jewish businessman. The Iranians were not told these were AIM-54Cs specifically, rather that they were 'new built Phoenixes'. The interview is linked below in Farsi (mentioned around 34 min mark).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMfqd8U-TC0&t=2143s
 
I'm skeptical. At least in 1983, Iran was specifically not interested in either Phoenix or Harpoon, being focused on TOW and Hawk.

None of the six known, recorded transfers involved Phoenix. I think Phoenix would have been harder to hide, since the usual cover was transfers to Israel*, and Israel had no Phoenix.

* Sometimes Israel provided the arms to Iran and was backfilled from the US, sometimes the weapons went direct but the "story" was that they were for Israel.
 

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