* September 5 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter is used as an attack aircraft for the first time when an F-14A operating from the aircraft carrier drops two 2, 000-pound ( 907-kg ) bombs on Bosnian Serb positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

An E-3 version included additional changes to the fuzing, and an E-4 featured a modified seeker for use with the F-14 Tomcat.

Its weapons system, the AIM-54 working with the AWG-9 radar, migrated to the new U. S. Navy fighter project, the VFX, which would become the F-14 Tomcat.

The AWG-9 radar system carried by the F-111B and F-14 Tomcat was one of largest and most powerful ever fitted to a fighter.

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

Some of the most expensive fighters such as the F-14 Tomcat, F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle were employed as all-weather interceptors as well as air superiority fighter aircraft, while commonly developing air-to-ground roles late in their careers.

Grumman F-14 Tomcat firing an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile.

Air cover was provided by, two F-14 Tomcat fighters and an E-2 Hawkeye from.

On 7 October 2001, early combat operations including a mix of strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers ; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F / A-18 Hornet fighters ; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U. S. and British ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan ( OEF-A ).

* 2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service.

Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

* Variable-sweep wing or " swing wings " that allow outstretched wings during low-speed flight ( i. e., take-off and landing ) and swept back wings for high-speed flight ( including supersonic flight ), such as in the F-111 Aardvark, the F-14 Tomcat, the Panavia Tornado, the MiG-23 the MiG-27, and the B-1B Lancer warplanes

To deploy and run JavaServer Pages, a compatible web server with a servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty, is required.

Mac OS X Server 10. 0 included the new Aqua user interface, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Tomcat, WebDAV support, Macintosh Manager and NetBoot.

Grumman went on to build the F-14 Tomcat, an aircraft that used many of the innovations of the F-111, but designed solely as a carrier-borne fighter.

The U. S. Navy uses or has used ATLAS-based programs for testing avionics systems of the UH-1Y Venom, AH-1Z Viper, SH-60 Seahawk, E-2C Hawkeye, F-14 Tomcat, F / A-18 Hornet, S-3 Viking, A-6 Intruder, EA-6B Prowler, AV8B Harrier, and V22 Osprey.

Tomcat Holland wrote this brief history for the West Carroll Chamber of Commerce website and posted it here as well.

A runway was built and most of Grumman's F-14 Tomcat and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft were to pass through the plant.

He submitted Thomas, his cat's name, as well as Tomcat, and Felidae, Latin, for the big cats.

Finally, the role was assigned to F-14 Tomcat, carrying AIM-54 Phoenix missiles.

Tomcat 4. x was released with Catalina ( servlet container ), Coyote ( an HTTP connector ) and Jasper ( a JSP engine ).

Tomcat 7. x implements the Servlet 3. 0 and JSP 2. 2 specifications.

* Tomcat Catalina, the Jakarta Tomcat version servlet container since Tomcat 4. x

Netflix uses a number of pieces of open-source software in its backend, including FreeBSD and nginx, Java, MySQL, Gluster, Apache Tomcat, Hive, Chukwa, Cassandra, and Hadoop.

Some of their early uses were in embedded systems, notably used by NASA for the Apollo Guidance Computer, by the military in the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, and in the Central Air Data Computer used for flight control in the US Navy's F-14A Tomcat fighter jet.

* February 7 – U. S. Air Force F-15C Eagles use AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles to shoot down three Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s ( NATO reporting name " Fitter ") flying to Iran, as well as an Iraqi Mil Mi-24 ( NATO reporting name " Hind ") helicopter in northern Iraq ; a U. S. Navy F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron 1 uses an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile to down an Iraqi Mil Mi-8 ( NATO reporting name " Hip ") helicopter ; and a U. S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II of the 926th Tactical Fighter Group uses 30-mm cannon fire to shoot down an Iraqi Bo 105 helicopter.

For the web server side of things, it uses Apache Tomcat.

The platform uses a Tomcat server and various OEM engines including Autonomy Corporation's ( for indexing, eForms and BPM ) and records management from IBM.

It is IBM's supported distribution of Apache Geronimo that uses Tomcat for servlet container and Axis 2 for web services.

* Tomcat Jasper, a software engine used by Apache Tomcat for JavaServer Pages

Following training in the F-14 Tomcat, he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 2 ( VF-2 ) from October 1981 to January 1985 aboard the USS Ranger and USS Kitty Hawk.

* September 17-F-14 Tomcat with Fighter Squadrons 1 ( VF-1 ) and 2 ( VF-2 ) aboard

* U. S. Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters fly combat missions for the first time, when F-14As of Fighter Squadrons 1 ( VF-1 ) and 2 ( VF-2 ) aboard the attack aircraft carrier strafe North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam during the evacuation of Saigon.

Released in the 1990s, Top Gun 2 is a version for Nintendo Game Boy, just like the first game you get to fly in a F-14 Tomcat trying to complete missions against the Soviet Union.

Aircraft include a C-47 Skytrain, Mig-17, F-14 Tomcat, F-84, F-100D, B-26 Marauder, F-4 Phantom, S-2 Tracker, 0-2 Skymaster, C-37 Tweet, Vought Corsair 2, F-11 Tiger, as well as two aircraft from the Goodyear Rubber Company located in Akron.

The Navy instead developed the Grumman F-14 Tomcat which on top of the heavy Phoenix, retained the Phantom's versatility and improved agility for dogfighting.

In 2007 Wyden sponsored ( with Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the House ), the Stop Arming Iran Act, which would have barred the Defense Department from selling surplus F-14 parts and prohibit buyers who have already acquired surplus Tomcat parts from exporting them in order to prevent Iran from acquiring the parts.

Tomcat is not the same as the Apache web server, which is a C implementation of a HTTP web server ; these two web servers are not bundled together, although they are frequently used together as part of a server application stack.

A proprietary version of make was used to build it on the Solaris Operating Environment, but in the open source world there was no way of controlling which platform was used to build Tomcat.

The game allows the player to control a F-14 Tomcat jet, which must destroy a series of enemy jets throughout 18 stages.

Although the After Burner brand was long dormant, Sega created a number of aerial combat games centered on the F-14 Tomcat with many similar features, which are frequently regarded as part of the series.

Today the cartridge increased in popularity due to modern compact concealed carry pistols chambered for it, such as the Kel-Tec P-32, Beretta Tomcat, Seecamp LWS 32 and North American Arms Guardian. 32 This increase in popularity has led many ammunition manufacturers to develop new loads for the cartridge which have better performance.

When Wildcat is attacked by Vandal Savage, Tom turns into a werecat ( Tomcat ), very similar to the Kingdom Come version of Wildcat, which is humanoid, but with head-to-toe black fur, a panther-like face, claws and a tail and is able to change back and forth at will.

On the night of 10 October 1985, there were tense hours on NAS II when the Italian Carabinieri, Italian Air Force, and the American Navy SEALs came close to firing upon one another following the interception by Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters of an Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, which had been commandeered by members of the PLO on 7 October.

The first air-to-air missile to introduce a terminal active seeker of its own was the AIM-54 Phoenix carried by the F-14 Tomcat, which entered service in 1972.

The Phoenix and its associated Tomcat radar, the AWG-9 was capable of multiple track and launch capability, which was unique to the Tomcat / Phoenix until the advent of AMRAAM in 1991. A MiG-29 Fulcrum fires a AA-10 " Alamo ".

* The markings of Roy Focker's VF-1S Valkyrie ( which was itself inspired by the F-14 Tomcat ) in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross is obviously inspired by the squadron insignia of VF-84, and his " Skull Squadron " is considered the equivalent of VF-84 ; in the Americanized version, Robotech, the squadron was also considered to be elite.

The authentication / SSO features of the Java container in which the IdP runs ( Tomcat, for example ) can also be used.

In November, 1999, NAS Lemoore received its first F / A-18 E / F Super Hornets, which replaced the F-14 Tomcat in fleet service as an air superiority fighter and has assumed, in a different configuration, the role of older F / A-18 Strike Fighters.

Joe Skystriker ," which had been added to the toyline a year earlier ( which was itself a virtual copy of the USN F-14 Tomcat -- the Skystriker was designated as an " XP-14F ").

The main reason was the existence of the United States Navy AIM-95 Agile program, which was developing a new short range air-to-air missile for the F-14 Tomcat.

This rethinking drove the US Navy's VFAX / VFX and US Air Force's FX ( Fighter Experimental ) concepts, which resulted in the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat and US Air Force's F-15 Eagle.

Joe Skystriker XP-14F fighter plane based on the F-14 Tomcat ; the Cobra Rattler, which has similarities to the A-10 Thunderbolt II ; the Dragonfly attack helicopter which was nearly identical to the Bell AH-1 Cobra ; the Cobra Night Raven S3P inspired by the Lockheed D-21 / M-21 ; and the M. O. B. A. T.