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The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project.
Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. [citation needed] The title is most closely associated with fighter aces, though there are other types, such as tank aces and submarine aces.
F-14 Tomcat. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was central to the 1986 film Top Gun. [37] [347] [348] The U.S. Navy provided F-14s at $7,600 per flight hour for a total bill of $886,000 ($2,463,000 today [349]). [350] [339] The aviation-themed film created such interest in naval aviation that the Navy set up recruitment desks outside some theaters. [351]
A male cat is called a tom or tomcat [11] (or a gib, [12] if neutered). A female is called a queen [13] [14] (or sometimes a molly, [15] if spayed). A juvenile cat is referred to as a kitten. In Early Modern English, the word kitten was interchangeable with the now-obsolete word catling. [16]
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (), [16] meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. [17]