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The Tigercat was designed to have a very small frontal area. F7F-3N Tigercat in use with belly tank in the fire-fighting role in 1988 F7F Tigercat N747MX La Patrona at 2014 Reno Air Races. Beginning in 1949, F7Fs were flown to the then-U.S. Navy storage facility at Naval Air Station Litchfield Park, Arizona. [13]
Marine Photographic Squadron 354 (VMP-354) was a United States Marine Corps photographic reconnaissance squadron originally commissioned during World War II.During the war, the squadron flew the F6F-3P Hellcat and later transitioned to the Grumman F7F Tigercat.
Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system, and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum modification to the recipient vessel and (originally) using existing fire-control systems.
121 Squadron SAAF was a South African Air Force squadron formed in 1974 to operate the British Tigercat surface-to-air missile systems in an air defence role. The unit was disbanded when the Tigercat system was retired from service in the early 1990s.
Tigercat is the Grumman F7F Tigercat, an American heavy fighter aircraft. Tigercat or tiger cat may also refer to: Tigercat, a 1960s catamaran sailboat; Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a Canadian football team; Tigercat missile, a mobile land-based version of the Sea Cat; Oncilla or northern tiger cat, a small spotted cat in Central America and Brazil
The Grumman XTSF was a proposed twin-engine torpedo scout aircraft, designed by Grumman for the United States Navy towards the end of World War II.Based on the design of the Grumman F7F Tigercat fighter, but enlarged and with the addition of a bomb bay, the XTSF was deemed too large for carrier operations, and the project was cancelled before any aircraft were built.
All the work done at NOTS on behalf of the Manhattan Project came under the codename Project "Camel". The name is said to have come from a remark by a Los Alamos scientist that once a camel (meaning Caltech) gets its nose under a tent flap it is hard to dislodge.
The Tigercat 726 was designed to suit the Southeast United States market. [5] MacDonald Steel owner Ken MacDonald served as the initial CEO with Tony Iarocci serving as president. [3] In 1995 Tigercat opened a primary production site in Paris, Ontario. They significantly expanded the site in 2014.