The Cats
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Aircraft

F4F Wildcat

F6F Hellcat

F7F Tigercat

F8F Bearcat

F-14 Tomcat

G-164 Agcat

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F4F and Zero dogfight Hellcat Tigercat Engine Start Bearcat Taxi F-14 VX-9 Takeoff Grumman Agcat
Manufacturer
Grumman Grumman Grumman Grumman Grumman Grumman (*1)
Role
Carrier based fighter Carrier based fighter Carrier based fighter bomber Carrier based fighter Carrier based multi role air superiority fighter Crop Dusting
Prototype first flight
1937 1942 1943 1944 1970 1957
Spec for variant
F4F-4 F6F-5 F7F-3 F8F-1 F-14A G-164A
Crew
1 1 1 1 2 1

Engine type

1x P&W R-1830-86 1x P&W R2800-10W 2x P&W R2800-34W 1x P&W R2800-34W 1x P&W TF30-P-412A 1x P&W R985

Engine output

1x 1200Hp 1x 2000Hp 2x 2100Hp 1x 2100Hp 2x 9500kg 1x 450Hp
Length
8.77m 10.2m 13.6m 8.6m 19.1m 7.11m
Width
11.58m 13.0m 15.7m 10.9m

19.5m(Wings extendedj
11.6m(Wings folded)

10.95m
Height
4.52m 3.9m 5.0m 4.2m 4.8m 3.27m
Gloss weight
2676kg 4190kg 7380kg 3210kg 18200kg 1220kg
Max weight
3980kg 6990kg 11660kg 5880kg 32700kg 2040kg
Max speed
515km/h 611km/h 700km/h 677km/h 2490km/h 237Km/h
Cruise speed
259km/h 270km/h 357km/h 262km/h 982km/h

130 - 160Km/h
(during crop dustingj

Climb rate
594m/min 908m/min 1380m/min 1460m/min 9900m/min 330m/min
Range
1525km 1521km 1930km 1770km

3800km
iAerial refuelling possible)

318km
Armament
6x 12.7mm guns 6x 12.7mm guns

4x 20mm guns
4x 12.7mm guns
total 900kg bombs
or
1x 21inch tropedo

4x 12.7mm guns
(Later model has 4x 20mm guns)

1x 20mm vulcan gun
total 4-6 missiles

(None)

*1 Agcat was designed and developed by Grumman, actual production began in 1959 by Grumman's contractor, Schweizer.
In 1981 Schweizer purchased all rights from Grumman. Later on Schweizer sold the rights to Agcat Co.




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