While the F-14 was famously known as a fighter jet, it did have a brief career as a fighter bomber. Toward the end of its flight history, the F-14 gained the ability to drop laser-guided bombs, and evenfought in a number of conflicts. One of the world’s most famous fighter jets once had a secondary mission of dropping precision-guided bombs in wartime. You love badass planes. So do we. Let's nerd out over them together. The F-14 Tomcat, designed to protect carrier battle groups from swarms of enemy fighters and bombers, later became a bomber itself after the end of the Cold War.