The aircraft can carry the short, medium and long-range air-to-air missiles AIM-9, AIM-7 and AIM-54, and air-to-ground ordnance including the Rockeye bomb and CBU cluster bombs. The aircraft has eight hardpoints for carrying ordnance, four on the fuselage, and two each side under the fixed section of the wings.
The F-14 is armed with a General Electric Vulcan M61A-1 20mm gun with 675 rounds of ammunition, which is mounted internally in the forward section of the fuselage on the port side. The cockpit is equipped with the NACES zero/zero ejection seat supplied by Martin Baker Aircraft Company. The rear cockpit for the radar intercept officer is equipped with a display that presents fused data from the AN/APG-71 radar and from the suite of aircraft sensors.Ĩ2 US Navy F-14Bs were upgraded with Flight Visions Sparrow Hawk HUD and FV-3000 modular mission display system, which improve reliability and night-vision capability. The F-14D front cockpit is equipped with a head-up display and two multifunction flat-screen displays. F-14 cockpitĬatseye night-vision goggles from BAE Systems have been installed in the F-14 since 1996. The wings are swept at 75° for aircraft carrier stowage. The variable sweep wings are set at 20° for take-off, loitering and landing and automatically change to a maximum sweep of 68°, which reduces drag for high subsonic to supersonic speeds. The variable-sweep wing and the twin almost upright tail fins of the F-14 Tomcat give the aircraft its distinctive appearance. The maximum take-off weight of the aircraft is 33.7t, while the empty and loaded weights are 19.8t and 27.7t respectively. F-14 aircraft has a length of 19.1m, height of 4.8m and wingspan of 19.55m.
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