F-14D Super Tomcat



Design
The F-14 was developed to replace the F-4B/J Phantom in US Navy service. It is a two-seat, twin-engine fighter interceptor with variable-geometry wings and a developing precision strike capability. The F-14D is the most sophisticated version, retired in 2006-2007 by the US Navy.

Service History (Post-2011)
Although most ex-USN aircraft were scrapped or otherwise demilitiarized following the type's retirement, about two dozen were retained at AMARC, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force had about sixty on inventory, with about 30 in service. These had been updated with Russian and Chinese components to near F-14D standard. After Iran's defeat and subsequent partial merge with Iraq, about a dozen were unaccounted for but suspected to be in the hands of the US government or China.

Instead of gradually being forgotten about, the missing F-14s appeared two years later at Andrews Air Force Base- in service with the US Internal Security Agency's Capitol Air Division. They fought in Operation WHITE EAGLE, shooting down three F-16s while losing four of their own to 43d Fighter Squadron and former Langley-based 'refugee' F-22s. Two were also pulled from AMARC under mysterious circumstances, and have not been located yet, but it appears they were shipped somewhere in Europe. Shipping manifests reveal a handful of shipments of 'aircraft spare parts' to Belfast, Northern Ireland, with weights roughly adding up to that of an F-14, offering some clue to their current disposition. No telltale shipments were made from Belfast, either suggesting that the airframes were dismantled and sold for parts, or that they remain in Belfast for as-yet unknown reasons.

In-Game
The F-14D is an Air Support unit available for any ISA army.