US Navy fighter pilots would go into battle at Midway flying the Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat. The Japanese Zero fighter outclassed the Wildcat in speed and maneuverability, but the Wildcat had superior ...

Northrop Grumman Systems, a subsidiary of Falls Church aerospace and defense giant Northrop Grumman, has been awarded a $3.459 billion contract by the Navy to engineer and manufacture new nuclear ...

Scottish Wildcat. Airwolfhound, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Scottish wildcat, with its striking tufted ears and feisty disposition, has faced a perilous decline due to the loss of its ...

The U.S. Navy announced it awarded the contract to Northrop Grumman to conduct mission-systems integration for the E-130J that will replace the E-6B in the TACAMO mission. Northrop Grumman has ...

A bid protest by a Collins Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) team is looming for a nearly $3.5 billion Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) U.S. Navy award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Wednesday.

It feels a little strange to write this entry using the verb in the past tense, but at the end of the day it is about a plane that is already history. A US Navy F-14A in flight in 1987 (Photo: NARA).