Grumman secretly sold Tomcat fighter parts to Iran, which was carried out very secretly, and I thought that this matter would continue to be dusty, but I did not expect that under the direction of some well-intentioned people, the East Window Incident finally happened, causing huge turmoil in the US Empire.

The previous President Reagan and Secretary of Defense Weinberg were not spared, and when questioned by the Senate, the media and the Senate firmly believed that it was the fault of these guys that caused the terrible and embarrassing situation today: there has never been a situation like Iran, where the United States sold arms to it, and then was bitten by this country's backhand, you know, the hostage crisis in 1979 directly led to the downfall of the Carter administration, and some people actually dared to risk the world's condemnation and send weapons to this evil country. This is a great blasphemy against the spirit of Metiz! Under intense pressure from Washington, the Senate and the media of public opinion, Grumman and its Tomcat fighters soon became pathetic victims.

In March 1992, President George H.W. Bush Sr. signed an order that Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney ordered the destruction of all production lines and templates for the Tomcat fighter. In the past, a certain kind of fighter was decommissioned, and it was only a mothballed production line, but now, it is completely destroyed, on the grounds that the Iranians cannot be allowed to obtain the production technology and components of the "Tomcat" fighter from the United States! Although before this, the US imperialists had already sold the maintenance line and related equipment to Pakistan Tomcat fighters, especially the production line of the F110 turbofan engine, the bureaucrats and brick beasts of the US imperialists insisted that it would be difficult for Pakistan to really develop the Tomcat fighter in reverse even if it was united with China, and even though Pakistan and Huaxia's copycat prototypes had repeatedly appeared in the sky and flown in the sky, they still wishfully believed that without the help of their technicians and engineers, Pakistan's repair lines and equipment will not be effectively maintained and upgraded, and the fleet of both copycat and original Tomcat aircraft will automatically become a pile of "scrap aluminum" like the Tomcat fighters sold to Iran earlier.

It's a ploy to kill a bird with one stone, especially now that Pakistan's air force is so strong. The implication against Pakistan is also very obvious, so that Pakistan's Tomcat fleet can not get follow-up effective guarantees, so that they can retire this powerful fighter as soon as possible!

The U.S. Imperialist Navy suffered even more unwarranted disasters, and the Senate and the Pentagon forced the Navy to retire all F-14s and replace them with Boeing's F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" fighters, on the grounds that the United States could not be equipped with the same weapons and equipment as several potential enemy countries at the same time. Although this reason is too far-fetched, Iran was also equipped with 79 F14s back then, and the F-14s of the US Imperialist Navy were not retired for this reason. For example, the F/A-18E/F as an upgraded version of the F/A-18C/D is very advanced, and it can realize the generalization of carrier-based aircraft combat functions by replacing F14 and A6 to save a lot of military spending, and this is attractive enough for those congressmen who have been looking for an excuse to cut military spending and use it for other purposes.

In the face of the enemy's great disadvantage in the Senate, despite the arguments of the US imperialist navy, many front-line pilots. Many people have flown F14 and F/A-18E/F at the same time, and the comparison of the specific performance of the two will be more intuitive, and they all think that the comprehensive performance of F/A-18E/F is not as good as F-14 at all, and its range and payload efficiency ratio is only equivalent to 32% of the Tomcat, even if the potential is dug deep in the later improvements, this proportion can only be barely increased to about 50%, after all, the foundation of the medium-sized aircraft cannot be compared with the heavy aircraft. Instead of equipping a completely new fighter, it is better to fully upgrade the original F14D "Super Cat". In order to form a technological generation advantage over those earlier export "Tomcat" fighters.

However, such an opinion was clearly not accepted by the Senate and the Pentagon. The Tomcat was eventually forced to retire in the spring of 1996, not because of limited funds, but because of the huge turmoil caused by Grumman's alleged illegal sale of Tomcat fighter parts to Iran, the joint mapping and imitation of the Tomcat fighter by Pakistan and China, the frenzied lobbying of the interest groups behind Boeing, and the short-sighted bureaucracy. In short, the U.S. Imperialist Senate resolutely refuses to pay for the F-14 Improvement, and they are also unwilling to give Grumman the NATF "Naval Advanced Fourth-Generation Heavy Carrier-based Fighter" (equivalent to the swept wing carrier-based version of the F-22 to replace the F14 fighter) and the ATF "Navy Advanced Fourth-Generation Carrier-based Attack Aircraft" (equivalent to the small carrier-based B2) tailored by Grumman for the U.S. Imperial Navy. for the replacement of the A6 attack aircraft) two projects to allocate even one cent, on the grounds that the Woolly Bear Empire is about to collapse, and the US Imperial Navy can use the existing F/A-18E/F "Hornet" to do all the current tasks! Therefore, everything has become a last resort.

In the end, all the "Tomcat" fighters of the US imperialism were sent to the aviation museum. The rest were not even placed in the aircraft graveyard in the Arizona desert, all of which were broken down into pieces of less than 5 square meters on average by laser cutters, and then buried in the desert (as with the reason for destroying the production line, the Iranians or the Pakistanis and the Chinese could not get the parts of the Tomcat fighters from the US Empire). The Tomcat is a high-tech machine worth tens of millions of dollars that countless people have spent countless days and nights to make, and now it is broken down by a cutter like a simple plank, and many people are heartbroken at that moment! They wept bitterly, there were the naval pilots who flew it, the naval crews who maintained it, the workers who built it, the engineers who designed it and finally "cared for" it like children, the scientist Mhammad's father-in-law, and Pierre, the CEO of Grumman, who suffered a stroke and a heart attack on the spot.

Although, afterwards, the US imperialist government and the military handed over the list of the Air Force's new generation bombers to Grumman's B2 "Phantom" stealth bombers as compensation. However, the Tomcat fighter has completely become history in the United States imperialism, and the two projects tailored to the US Imperial Navy, NATF and ATF, which were originally pinned on high hopes, have also been forcibly terminated, and the Grumman company, which has suffered heavy losses, has almost completely withdrawn from the US imperialist naval carrier-based aircraft market, and a large number of outstanding engineers and technicians engaged in the improvement and production of Tomcat fighters have been forced to accept the company's declining profits and the large layoffs brought about by the recession.

And now, Grumman is immersed in the tomcat fighter was withdrawn from the US Navy carrier-based aircraft market, from the far South Asia, came a favorable news, Pakistani President Hammad heard that his father-in-law was sick in bed because of the Tomcat fighter, sent his wife to comfort the sick father-in-law, at the same time, at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Pakistan's cooperation, so that the United States provided Pakistan with a large amount of military aid, in order to help his father-in-law, Mhammad immediately used this military aid to buy Grumman's forty F14Ds for $38 million each, in fact, the United States also has the mentality of dealing with scrap, otherwise at the price of the 90s, the price of an F14D is at least $50 million! And this is not counting the cost of spare parts and ammunition, and now, the US Navy will no longer continue to equip Tomcat fighters, and it is going to be retired, Grumman's last forty F-14Ds from the factory, the US Navy did not receive it, and Mhammad's purchase can be regarded as a great loss to his father-in-law's factory.

Pakistani President Mahmad, who is the son-in-law of Grumman CEO Pierre, really pulled Grumman at a critical time! A total of $2 billion in arms purchase orders for 40 F14D "Super Cat" fighters at $38 million each, plus supporting parts and weapons, allowed Grumman to sweep away the haze of "Iran Gate" at once, and the company's shares also showed an upward trend on the stock market.

Although the fire control radar configuration of this batch of exported Super Cats was replaced with a slightly backward AN/AWG-9 radar in accordance with the consistent export policy of the United States, and some of the ground attack synthetic aperture functions were shielded, the F110-GE-400 turbofan engine was retained, and the Tomcat fighter was still the world's first-class fighter. Everyone was very happy with the contract, but neither party expected that years later, the situation would change drastically, and now that Mhammad's wife, the first lady of Pakistan, Lilith, came to Grumman in person.

"Father, rest in peace." Lilith first visited the old Pierre in the hospital bed, and for nearly ten years, Lilith has been in Afghanistan and Pakistan, rarely returning home, but her feelings for her father have never changed.

Old Pierre on the hospital bed looked much better, facing his daughter, old Pierre sighed: "Lilith, this time it's thanks to Mhammad, if Pakistan hadn't received all the new fighters from our company, our company would really not have been able to survive this difficulty." ”

Thinking of Grumman's company being in danger several times, it was Pakistan that helped digest the inventory in the end, and Pierre was also very grateful to his daughter, married a good husband, and had a good son-in-law.

"Father, you must recuperate with peace of mind, your body is the most important thing." Lilith said beside her. (To be continued.) )