The post VX-9 ‘Vampires’ F/A-18F Super Hornet Brandishes Heavy Air-to-Air ... The AIM-54 was a long-range air-to-air missile used by the U.S. Navy's F-14 Tomcat and retired in 2004 alongside ...

The final member of the Grumman cat family, the F-14 Tomcat, with its signature variable-geometry wings and twin-engine ...

The Tomcat was designed to be much less of a pig than the 88,000 pounds fully-loaded F-111B. But even so, at 74,350 lb (33,725 kg) fully loaded, it was no featherweight either.

F/A-18F BuNo 166673 Vandy 1 hauling 4x AIM-174B, joined with a VX-9 F-35C and an F-15E from 422 TES, fly over the Point Mugu Sea Range during Gray Flag 2024 on Sept. 24, 2024.