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Santa Cat (After Christmas honorable mention)

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Nope, this isnt photoshopped.

Santa Cat an F-14B Tomcat flown by the U.S. Navs VF-103 Jolly Rogers off of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in December 2000

“Santa Cat,” an F-14B Tomcat flown by the U.S. Navy’s VF-103 “Jolly Rogers” off of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65).  The B-series F-14 made the venerable 1970s era air superiority fighter into a viable multi-role strike aircraft after it pioneered the operational use of the LANTIRN system to drop laser guided bombs deep into Serbian territory. This led to the unofficial nickname of  “Bombcat” to differentiate it from its previously just air-to-air predecessors. However in the end, the F-14 was put out to pasture in 2006, replaced by the Super Hornet., which VF-103 flies today.

Last Christmas post of the year. Promise



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