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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Dogfighting
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Date: 20 Jun 89 03:46:24 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>The F-14 was designed to incorporate many of the lessons learned from
>Vietnam.  It was designed for ACM performance (though they did skimp
>a bit on the engines...

They skimped on the engines in the F-14A, which was meant as an initial
interim version.  The F-14B was to have had much more advanced engines.
Said engines ran into problems (both technical and financial, I think)
and the F-14B got quietly forgotten.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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