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Should note that IRL, the F-14 started as a Grumman study internal design also... Though that was because they looked at the F-111B program, saw the writing on the wall, and decided to get a head start on design.
Interestingly, I've read that in clean configuration, Tomcats could dogfight Eagles and win, but usually they're stuck with the fuckheavy drop tanks (IRL) and so always had to dogfight with that disadvantage.
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