Super Tomcat-21 And The Asf-14

[Kira]

The Tomcat that never was, because the Navy super-sized the wrong fighter.

 

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/top-gun-day-special-the-super-tomcat-that-was-never-bu-1575814142

 

By the way, as I hear it, as with the Canadian Avro Arrow program, the F-14 can no longer be put back into use should the need arise in the future as critical components have been deliberately destroyed so that they do not end up in Iranian hands on the few (less than 20?) remaining flying IRIAF F-14s.  (In the case of the Arrow, that entailed deliberate destruction of the tooling, due to a feared Soviet mole in the program.  As I recall, the presence of the mole was later confirmed.)