The missiles caused many casualties among Iraq s Air Force.
Here s What You Need to Know: The only country successfully to wield the AIM-54 in combat has been Iran.
The U.S. Navy’s AIM-54 Phoenix, the exclusive long-range weapon of the F-14 Tomcat fighter, is one of the most powerful air-to-air missiles every to exist.
Thirteen feet long and weighing 1,000 pounds, the rocket-propelled, radar-guided AIM-54 flew at Mach five as high as 80,000 feet while carrying a devastating, 135-pound warhead over a range of more than 100 miles.
Former Navy F-14 pilot Francesco Chierici called the Phoenix “a lethal sledgehammer of a missile.”
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Navy aircraft carriers, and the airwings they bring with them, have projected US power around the world for decades.
That airwing has evolved, and its pilots have flown some of the most advanced aircraft to see combat.
American aircraft carriers are one of the most dominant naval weapons in existence. Since their trial by fire in World War II, US carriers have played key roles in all US wars and become essential to US force projection.