For instance, the F-14 was the best aircraft to defend U.S. Navy aircraft carriers against a multiple target engagement. It has a one-piece windshield and large canopy. Two things: I think you meant 61,000 pounds instead of kilograms in the "Design" section for the F-14.

So to the question to which was the better fighter, Winebrenner answers that depends on the mission, on the ROE, on the threat.

7:04. The high-speed/long-range requirements for the jet led Mcdonnell Douglas to the twin-engine design of the F-15.

However, as 28% of accidents were attributed to the use of these engines, they were eventually replaced by two General Electric F110 engines. The F-14 was developed in the US by Grumman as part of long term attempt to develop long-range, high-endurance interceptors to defend carrier battle groups against anti-The F-14 is 62 feet 9 inches long, with a spread wingspan of 64 feet and a swept wingspan of 38 feet.

The F-15 was developed in response the the Air Forces desire for a dominant air superiority fighter capable of ground attacks, partially to counter the perceived threat from the Soviet Mig Foxbat aircraft under development in the late 1960s. The F-14 Tomcat is a (now retired) supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat fighter aircraft, developed for use by the United States Navy. And if the F-14 didn’t possess the close-range dogfighting agility of the F-15, the Tomcat ability to launch 1000 lb air to air missiles with 135 lb warheads was impressive. However, as your article notes, the F-15 is certainly capable of doing it as well.Edit or create new comparisons in your area of expertise.

Good article, with one correction. Nevertheless as explained by LCDR Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka, who was the The cockpit of the F-15 is mounted high in the forward fuselage. The F-14 can carry over 6,700 kg of stores under the fuselage and wings. The F-14 has a bubble canopy that contains two seats and allows for all-round visibility. But, as you will read in the following article, trying to determine which was the better fighter is a pointless exercise.By contrast, the constant mixing of friendly and enemy aircraft typical of a Central European Defensive Counter-Air (DCA) would have rendered the Phoenix unusable in most of the engagements because of the dynamic environment faced by the fighters. Another role where the Tomcat could be very effective was a sweep mission were BVR missiles could be freely shot: this would be the case of a sweep ahead of a carrier-based attack package, a kind of mission where the F-14 would have been able to launch its AIM-54s without limitations due to the absence in the area of any friendly aircraft.

But despite the fact the Eagle’s sensors were better to sort out friendlies from enemies, if the BVR Rules of Engagements (ROE) were so restrictive that visual identification (VID) was required for weapons delivery, the Tomcat armed with Sparrows and Sidewinders was better suited since it owned the Television Camera Set (TCS), a chin-mounted optical sensor that could be slaved to radar line of sight. F-14 vs F-15 comparison. It was fitted with an internal 20 mm The F-15 can be armed with AIM-7F/M Sparrow missiles, F-14s are currently only used by the Iranian Air Force after the U.S. retired them from use in February 2006. And as Scout explains, claiming that a missile is easy to evade is much easier than actually evading it, especially if it is coming at you from above at Mach 5 and you cannot see it.From the late 1980s, both aircraft have received several improvements: so if the F-15C could finally engage multiple target thanks to the introduction of the AIM-120 AMRAAM, the thrust of the General Electric F110-GE-400 turbofans boosted the performance of the F-14B and D models.

Actually, the mission would have been also accomplished also in the case the enemy aircraft had leaved the area refusing to engage the Tomcats.On the contrary, Winebrenner says that in a Force Protection / Escort mission, where the fighters cannot commit on hostile until they were within 20 miles, many Phoenix advantages are negated and the F-15 good maneuverability was needed to better face enemy aircraft. The F-14 initially used two Pratt & Whitney TF30 turbofan engines. Moreover, the agility deficit of the then TF-30 powered F-14 could have caused problems during the several dogfights that crews could have faced in such a complex scenario.