That advantage could disable initiation of the Soviets MAD 3 response thus decapitating the entire context of the Cold War conundrum. will have gained a great advantage of shortening the Soviet strategic decision-cycle time from about 40 minutes to less than 10 minutes. By severing critical C4 links across several Soviet regional C4 facilities the U.S. If F-14s are able to kill bombers feet dry over the Soviet Union then the organic assets of the Battle Group have the ability to strike critical C4 targets in country. His problem is not the aggressive F-14 his problem is that the standard USN F-14 always travelled with a team of “goodfellas.” Goodfellas in the form of one or more Battle Groups, and during the cold war a Battle Group deployed with organic strategic capabilities. In a scenario where a Tanksaw F-14 shoots down outbound Soviet bombers while they are still feet-dry over the USSR, the cognisant Soviet Air Force General, who was just handed his retirement by a couple of Navy flyers, will need to temper his response to losing those capital assets so early in the campaign. The F-14 had completely amputated the air leg of the Soviet triad. Navy’s fleet, allowing carrier-based and other long range strike aircraft to be flown feet dry over the USSR. Kills at 700NM from the carrier meant anti-ship missiles carried on aircraft like the Bear and Badger were no longer a sure threat to the U.S. In 1986, the F-14 proved that its extraordinarily capable weapon system and its endurance could create a “strategic-tactic,” variously known as Chainsaw and Tanksaw, enabling a single F-14 to achieve a kill volume covering approximately 2% of the Pacific Ocean. But how did a tactical airplane enable such a strategy? The F-14 demonstrated it was capable of first strike. Following the FleetEx 83 F-14 flyover, which caused a political stir, Able Archer 83 demonstrated NATO’s first strike capability in November 1983. Leveraging the Tomcat’s versatility during FleetEx 83 (April 1983), several F-14s reportedly overflew a Soviet military base near the Kamchatka peninsula – proving the assertion of Admiral Watkins, then CNO, that the USSR was “as naked as a jay-bird” in that AOR. The Tomcat’s godlike potency captured the aviation world’s attention when it was introduced as one of the earliest 4 th generation fighters. Additionally, the F-14 was armed with weapons that can kill from inside 1000 feet (the M61 Gatling gun) to 70 nautical miles with the Phoenix air-to-air missile, and the Tomcat was designed with an incredibly versatile performance envelope that boasted high-g manoeuvring, high-speed, great endurance. This capability was on American flight decks SEVENTEEN YEARS before the AIM-120 provided multi-shot capability to other American fighters. With the AWG-9 able to track two dozen separate targets and feed the data to a swarm of million-dollar missiles doing their job, two J.Os 3 could find themselves at the tactical pointy end of a powerful strategic spear. The AIM-54 and the AWG-9 enabled incredible combat capability. No other Cold War aircraft had the single mission capability to send two nuggets on a “standard” mission from the CV and trap two Aces a few hours later. The F-14 had the capability of destroying ANY opposing aircraft ANY where in the world. Instead, we’re going back to when the F-14 first brought sensational performance to American carrier flight decks. For today’s mission we won’t compare the Tomcat /AIM-54 missile combination to the Flanker /AA-10C.
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