Limiting Arms Sales and the Iranian AWACS Proposal
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This is an excerpted version of George McGovern's acceptance speech at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami, where he was nominated to run for president.
Had events worked out differently, the aircraft that Tom Cruise flew could have been an… F-15 Eagle?
In the end, the Navy stuck with the F-14 Tomcat. Here's What You Need to Know: The F-15N would probably have been faster and more maneuverable than the F-14, as well as cheaper. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a Dynamic Duo symbolized U.S. military airpower. The Air Force had its powerful F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter. But the Navy had the sophisticated swing-wing F-14 Tomcat, glamorized by the movie Top Gun. Yet had events worked out differently, the aircraft that Tom Cruise flew could have been an… F-15 Eagle? For a time, the Navy actually considered a carrier version of the F-1...