While the F-14 was famously known as a fighter jet, it did have a brief career as a fighter bomber.
Toward the end of its flight history, the F-14 gained the ability to drop laser-guided bombs, and evenfought in a number of conflicts.
One of the world’s most famous fighter jets once had a secondary mission of dropping precision-guided bombs in wartime.
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The F-14 Tomcat, designed to protect carrier battle groups from swarms of enemy fighters and bombers, later became a bomber itself after the end of the Cold War.