Title: Navy Deathmatch: F-14 Tomcat vs. F/A-18 Super Hornet (Who Wins)? | The National Interest
Headings: Navy Deathmatch: F-14 Tomcat vs. F/A-18 Super Hornet (Who Wins)?
Navy Deathmatch: F-14 Tomcat vs. F/A-18 Super Hornet (Who Wins)?
The F-14 Tomcat
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Content: Capability of precision-guided munitions: JDAM (all variants), JSOW and JASSM]
Gone are the days of the RIOs. ( If you watch the trailer, the plane at the very end is a Tomcat, present thanks to CGI magic.) The radar system is improved enough that the pilot can fly the plane and use the radar at the same time, no Goose needed. Super Hornets come in two variants: a single-seater and a two-seater, meaning that unlike a Tomcat, which engineers designed around a two-person crew, a pilot can fly an F/A-18 all by themselves. The two-seaters, technically known as the F/A-18F, can host a “weapons systems officer” in the backseat (abbreviation: WSO, pronounced “whizz-oh”). Alternatively, that backseat can be outfitted with all the controls a pilot would need to fly the Super Hornet. As told by Popular Science, this is presumably a huge perk for filming.