Few have been able to inspire the imagination and affections as much as the F-14 Tomcat. As much as the great abilities of ...

Tehran turned to the black market, paying huge sums to shady middlemen to sneak F-14 parts into Iran. American authorities became aware of the illicit trade as early as 1998. In March of that year, ...

The final member of the Grumman cat family, the F-14 Tomcat, with its signature variable-geometry wings and twin-engine design, became an iconic symbol of the Cold War. A product of the “Grumman Iron ...

The feds began investigating 18 companies that had supplied airplane components to Multicore. In September 2003, U.S. authorities nabbed Iranian Serzhik Avasappian in a South Florida hotel as part of ...

Grumman produced a total of 712 iconic F-14 Tomcat aircraft before the assembly line was shut down. The US Navy retired the last of its F-14s in 2006, being succeeded by Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, ...