Andreas Parsch wrote in message ...
Flub wrote:

When the US Navy is going to retire all of its F-14 Tomcats, what will
happen with the feared long-range Pheonix missile? As I know, the F-14 is
the only frame that can carry this weapon. Or am I wrong? Will the Super
Hornet use the AIM-54? Or will they retire the AIM-54 also, as it has no
longer such a military value as during the Cold War?


Phoenix will be retired together with the Tomcat around 2010(?).

"By 2007" according to a March 2003 report:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...0327-nns05.htm

Brooks


Andreas