Subject: New Fighter Series--Grumman F-14 Tomcat (7 of 14)

From: [email-masked] (Joe Baugher)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 00:36:33 GMT

The F-14C was to have been a version of the F-14B fitted with upgraded 
avionics system that provided for all-weather attack and 
reconnaissance capability.  Like the F-14B, the F-14C was to have been 
powered by a pair of F401-P-400 turbofans.  However, the high costs of 
the F-14C caused the Navy to order more Grumman A-6 Intruders instead 
and to initiate the VFAX program which resulted in the McDonnell 
Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.  The F-14C was abandoned before any examples 
could be built.  

Sources:

   Grumman Aircraft Since 1919, Rene J. Francillon, Naval Institute
   Press, 1989.

   Grumman F-14 Tomcat, Doug Richardson, Osprey, 1987.

   F-14 Tomcat: Fleet Defender, Robert F. Dorr, World Airpower
   Journal, Vol 7, 1991.
 
   Grumman F-14 Tomcat Variant Briefing, World Airpower Journal,
   Vol. 19, 1994.

   The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, 
   Orion, 1987.

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