{"id":103639,"date":"2024-08-07T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/soviets-fishing-fallen-f-14-tomcat-uss-john-f-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:00:12","slug":"that-time-soviets-went-fishing-for-an-f-14-tomcat-which-had-fallen-off-the-uss-john-f-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=103639","title":{"rendered":"That Time Soviets Went Fishing For An F-14 Tomcat Which Had Fallen Off The USS John F. Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-cost-maintain-us-airforce-navy-aircraft-fleet\/\">US Navy&#8217;s <\/a>Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter jet became super-famous with the American movie-going public in 1986 thanks to the box office blockbuster &#8220;<em>Top Gun<\/em>&#8221; starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis (though the Tomcat already had garnered a wee bit of movie stardom six years earlier in the time travel thriller &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080736\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" ><em>The Final Countdown<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; wherein the F-14 unsurprisingly enjoyed a 2:0 kill ratio against WWII Japan&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nakajima-ki-43-oscar-imperial-japanese-army-air-force-zero-lookalike\/\"> Mitsubishi A6M Zeros<\/a>).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years before &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; made the F-14 Tomcat famous with US moviegoers, the Soviets tried to retrieve one via a fishing expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7867,10154,408,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-14","category-grumman","category-history","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103640,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103639\/revisions\/103640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}