After years of rising tension between the United States and Libya, everything erupted on January 4, 1989, when two F-14 Tomcats from the USS John F. Kennedy detected a pair of Libyan MiG-23 Floggers ...
Key Points and Summary - The Navy needed a carrier fighter that could stop Soviet bomber raids before they reached the fleet—and still win if the fight collapsed to a merge. -Grumman’s F-14 delivered: ...