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Originally Posted by Rockport24
so relate this to Top Gun for me since that is my entire frame of reference for fighter planes - those were F-14A Tomcats in that movie, correct?
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Yep - F14 Tomcats
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Originally Posted by BEETLE
if they stuck to the original flight plan, I figured they should have been flying over MV about 20- 30 min. after I saw them.
I'm 13 miles from the city and heard the roar - and they were going slow. Cool stuff. I hear their something like $20-25 Mil. each ??
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Nope - 20-25 mi8llion each in 1990 dollars for C models like the ones we are talking about. 110 mil each today for the deriviatives of the F15E Strike Eagle (bigger, more advanced)
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Originally Posted by piemma
That's what they tell the public. It's WAY more than that.
The old A6s in Nam could do Mach 2 and that was almost 50 years ago.
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A6 might break Mach 1 in a dive and might even not break apart
