F-14s Used Commercial Radar Detectors

F-14s Used Commercial Radar Detectors

In the early 1980s, F-14 Tomcat pilots on reconnaissance missions over Lebanon's Beqaa Valley used commercial "fuzz-buster" radar detectors mounted on the pilots' glare shields to detect surface-to-air missile radars that their aircraft's built-in systems could not detect.

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