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You can have all the F-14s you want, it will break your national budget fast, and leave air superiority to the nation that has a more reliable, cheaper to opperate fighter. The F-18 has only one real weakness compared to the F-14, range, and that was largely made up by the F-18E/F, with the bonus of MUCH higher operational availability. Bottom line, on non-stealth tactical fighter is about equal to another non-stealth tactical fighter when they both have advanced air search radars and AMRAAMs. And the F-18 can carry a much greater variety of ordnance. The F-14D was a big improvement over the F-14A/B, which was a great air superiority fighter in the 1970's and 80's, but is long since obsolete in the 21st century.
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The SWO
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