{"id":66882,"date":"2024-06-17T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/grumman-f-14-tomcat-5-historic-missions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T16:00:13","slug":"grumman-f-14-tomcat-top-5-historic-us-forces-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=66882","title":{"rendered":"Grumman F-14 Tomcat: Top 5 Historic US Forces Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is among the most loved late 20th-century US Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighters<\/a>. While the US Navy retired the Tomcats in 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iran-f-14-tomcats-their-usage-today\/\">Tomcats are still flown by the Iranians<\/a> (the US supplied dozens of them to Iran before the revolution of 1979). In the US Navy service, the Tomcats were mostly used in air-to-air and recon missions and later were used in long-range strike fighter missions. The Navy used them in action in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tomcat was in service between 1974 and 2006 and carried out a number of combat missions for the US Navy.<\/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":[396,7867,408,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-14","category-history","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66882","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=66882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66883,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66882\/revisions\/66883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}