Why the F-14 Was Built for a Weapon That Was Never Fired

Chapters: 0:00 The F-14 was NOT built for dogfighting 1:34 The Tomcat's design was based around a missile 3:11 The downside of having the engines so far apart on the F-14 4:18 Why the F-14 had terrible engines 6:18 The reason for the F-14 Tomcat's rectangular air intakes 7:09 The Tomcat's variable sweep wing design 8:22 The challenges of maintaining the F-14 Tomcat 8:51 The F-14 Tomcat's nicknames 9:29 How did the AIM-54 Phoenix missile work? 10:50 Why did the F-14 have a gun? 12:42 The Iranian's success with the F-14 Tomcat 14:23 Why the Tomcat never carried 6 Phoenix missiles operationally Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pNDofN0Xh-z2bhh62g8Ow/join #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs Music: TBD Footage: Select images/videos from Getty Images US Department of Defense Note: "The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."