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F-14 Diamondbacks 1 was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from FSX, Β© Microsoft Corporation.F-14: Iris Simulations
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D-Back 102 of the VF-102 Diamondbacks. Β Beautiful capture of her.
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Beautiful planes, but why did the military retire them? :U
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Age, and cost, they had been in service over 30 years and were the most expensive to opperate fighter of the time.
Still one of the best loved aircraft of all time :-D
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But still. Couldn't they have just upgraded the thing?
Apache helicopters are like 10 million dollars to build or some crazy ammount.
It's my favorite jet. :U
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Again? It was already in its 3rd version (F-14D, there was no C) There were a few proposals for more advanced aircraft based on the F-14 airframe, but none was ever taken forward. "Super Tomcat21" and the "ASF-14".
An Apache seems to be about 20 million USD, this is about the same as an F-16C.
An F-14 is about twice that figure, and an F-35 is nearer 80 million USD.
F-22, 150 million
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o.O We have a lot of money on our hands.
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But apparently still not as much money as you would have liked: the last (ever?) F-22 was finished recently, if the original order hadn't been cut there would be about 600 still to build!!!
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Oh mah god. o_O
Makes you wonder what's going to happen with aviation in 20 years, doesn't it?
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The things that will happen in 20 years are just starting now.
In the UK, BAe's "EAP" demonstrator first flew in August '86, just before I was born.
Eurofighter Typhoon entered service 17 years later in 2003.
The EAP wasn't really a Typhoon, it was half a Tornado F3 mated to a new delta wing & front fuse, so The F-22 program did a little better - the YF-22 first flew in 1990, with the F-22A entering service 15 years later in 2005.
The EAP first flew just 1 year after the Tornado F3 (which Typhoon replaced) entered service. The F-15C had been around a while longer, in service since about 1980.
Basically around about now the future Experimental/Development aircraft are being produced to replace today's fighters.
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They got old. They were introduced in the 1970's and only remained in production for a relatively short time. Eventually, more efficient, more maneuverable, more adaptable, just plain better fighter jets began appearing starting in the 1990's. Eventually, the newest Tomcat became elderly.
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Yes! Tomcats Forever! nice job man
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