2667 - 1/48 F-14 A Tomcat Italeri  [IT-2667S]

Period: from '50 to '90

Nation: Usa

Model Dim.: 39 cm

F-14 A TOMCAT

The U.S. Navys initial super-fighter, the F-14, originated partially in accordance with expertise gained utilising the F-111, a multi-role airplane developed by General Dynamics, the Navy as a kind of which, the F111B, completed up being built by Grumman. The F-14A first travelled on twenty-first December 1970, and production-line models started reaching squadrons in 1973. Squadrons VF-1 and VF-2 accompanied the last voyage for this aircraft provider Enterprise in Vietnam, yet never ever saw combat. The Tomcat would not see action until 1981, when it comes to shot down two Libyan Su-22s during an encounter through the whole Gulf of Sirte. Ever since then the F-14 is updated over repeatedly possesses brought parts in many disputes in the centre East (Iran-Iraq war, first and 2nd Gulf War), plus in operations regarding past Yugoslavia and little skirmishes inside the Mediterranean.