Question on TF-30 30k lbt variant. ..

I was wondering why the engine wasn't considered for the F-14 or why
the Air Force and Navy didn't do a joint thing and use it on both
aircraft. Seems like it would have been a no-brainer. Of course with
the way the F-100/F401-P-400 went, maybe that's being overly
optimistic.







AF was far more interested in reliability for the P-3/7/9 engines at that time
than thrust. The P-100 fixed the trubine problemson the older engines problems
but had fan problems of its own.

The Navey later went to the GE F110 engine, at least in Ds.

The early TF-30s had major operability problems(stalls) too because of the most
comples hydromechanical control system on a jet engine and the DoD wanted them
fixed, not more thrust IIRC. Digital control eventually resolved operability
problems on mostengines. The PW F100-100/200 also had some major problems of
the same sort, the Stall-Stagnation problem..