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Operation Enduring Freedom 'Coalition Air Power over Afghanistan Part 1 Boeing CH-47D Chinook, 147202/202 'The Magic Bus', CHF, Canadian Air Force at Kandahar 2009 Boeing CH-47D Chinook, 147203/203, CHF, Canadian Air Force at Kandahar 2009 Boeing CH-47D Chinook, 147201/201 'Miss Behavin', CHF, Canadian Air Force at Kandahar 2009 Panavia Tornado IDS, MM55007, 102 Gruppo/6 Stormo, Italian Air Force Mazar-e-Sharif 2009 McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier Plus, MM.7224/1-19, Giuseppe Garibaldi Italian Navy, North Arabian Sea 2002 McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Plus, 165421 'WE/01', VM-214 'Blacksheep' USMC (MAG-40, 2nd MEB) Kandahar 2009. (Black tail and drop tanks) McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Plus, 165572 'CF/01', VMA-211 'Wake Island Avengers', USMC (MAG-13, 3rd MAW) Camp Bastion 2012 Grumman F-14D Tomcat, 164348 'NH/100', VF-231 'Blacklions' USS Carl Vinson CVW-11, USN, North Arabian Sea 2001 (Coloured Lion on fin) Grumman F-14D Tomcat, 164603 'NH/101', VF-231 'Blacklions' USS Carl Vinson CVW-11 USN, North Arabian Sea 2001 Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II, 79-0154 'BD', 47th EFS/455th AEW, USAF Bagram 2012 Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II, 79-0145 'BD', 107th EFS/451st AEW, USAF Bagram 2011 McDonnell F-15E Strike Eagle, 89-0487 'SJ', 335th FS (Chiefs)/4th FW, 4th Operations Group, USAF Bagram 2011 Eurocopter Tigre HAP, ET-703, 1st Attack Helicopter Battalion, Spanish Army, Herat 2013 Westland Lynx AH.7, XZ645, 672 Squadron, AAC Operation Herrick Kandahar 2007

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Grumman F-14A/F-14B/F-14D Tomcat patches VF-2 VF-101 VF-31

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat (Spotlight on) Spot.14 This book is the latest in a new reference series for aircraft modellers called "Spotlight On" and presents detailed illustrations of the famous Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seater, variable sweep-wing jet combat aircraft. The Tomcat was operational with the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 2006 and remains in service with the Iranian Air Force (having been exported to Persia before the fall of the Shah). The book contains 40 specially-commissioned colour plan and profile views illustrating the different camouflage, colours and markings of various users. {f-14A F-14B F-14D]

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat Data Sheet: Contains Un-Armed Missile Markings [F-14A F-14B F-14C F-14D]

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Grumman F-14A Tomcat Part 3 1. F-14A Tomcat BuNo.162592 NF 105 of VF-154 'Black Knights' of Lt Brandon Hammond 'Reggie' and Lt Kevin Sidenstricker 'Catfish'. 2. F-14D Tomcat BuNo.163904 NK 103 of VF-31 'Tomcatters' of LCdr Mark Burgess 'Crunchy' and LCdr Jason Geiger 'Alf'. 3. F-14B Tomcat BuNo.161873 AG 104 of VF-143 'Pukin' Dogs' of Lt Rob Mathewson 'Axle' and LCdr Dean Faller 'Dino'.

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat By Charles Stafrace. The US Navy embarked on the VFX fighter programme when it became obvious that the weight, engine and manoeuvrability issues plaguing F-111B, the naval variant of the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX), would not be resolved to the Navy's satisfaction. The Navy requirement was for a fleet air defence fighter whose primary role was intercepting Soviet bombers before they could launch missiles against the carrier battle group. The Navy strenuously opposed the TFX, which incorporated the US Air Force's requirements for a low-level attack aircraft that were not required by the Navy. Grumman came up with a solution in the form of their F-14 Tomcat, a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing aircraft. But what made the Tomcat head and shoulders above all other fighters was its AWG-9 weapons control radar married to the superlative AIM-54A Phoenix air-to-air missile. The Tomcat was all the US Navy required, and the F-111B episode was soon forgotten. The F-14A was the first version of the Tomcat, and it entered US Navy service in 1972 with VF-1 and VF-2 and first deployed overseas on USS Enterprise in 1974, gradually replacing the later versions of the F-4 Phantom on the US carriers' decks. The F-14A served only with one foreign air force, the Imperial Iranian Air Force which, after the 1978 revolution, came to be known as the Iranian Islamic Iranian Air Force. The Tomcat's role in Iran's war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988 is explained in detail. The Iranian, in its locally-improvised versions, is still in service. The F-14A version of the Tomcat inherited not only the AWG-9/AIM-54 system from the ill-fated F-111B but also its troublesome TF30 engine. In the US Navy it was only when the F-14B was re-engined with the more powerful and more reliable F-110-GE-400, as was also the F-14D, that the Tomcat really showed its true potential in the air. The Tomcat went on to serve on all US carriers of the Forrestal and Kitty Hawk Models Class of carriers and on all nuclear powered carriers built until 2006, the year when the Tomcat was retired from service. During the years it spent on deck, the Tomcat, in its F-14A, F-14B and F-14D versions, participated in all US interventions of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Horn of Africa, and distinguished itself not only as an interceptor fighter, but later also as a ground support and reconnaissance aircraft when the need for these two new roles were needed and when equipped with the LANTIRN and TARPS systems. The Tomcat's story was immortalised by the Hollywood production that made 'Tomcat' and 'Top Gun' household names, but in real life the Tomcat was truly a confirmed 'MiG-killer' and a 'Sukhoi-killer' in encounters with hostile Libyan opposition. Its exit from the US Navy scene in 2006 was a controversial one, as the aircraft was still considered a valuable asset to the fleet. However, its astronomical maintenance hours per flight hours and its ageing systems compared with the newer F/A-18 Hornet worked against it. All this is explained in detail in this new Warpaint title, a 124-page account of America's most famous fighter of recent times, that contains no fewer than 280 photos, ten pages of colour profiles, scale plans, fourteen information tables and a text that give exact details of every squadrons, details of all deployments with carrier, CVW, dates and destination, conversions to later versions, and many other information as now expected from titles by author Charles Stafrace, supported by superb artwork by John Fox.

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