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The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat 576

jonerik writes "Though it's not being widely reported, this week marks the end of the line for the F-14 Tomcat in US Navy service. First flown in 1970, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was easily one of the world's most powerful, advanced, and deadly aircraft for many years, capable of flying at Mach 2.3 and firing its half-dozen Mach 5 AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles at targets as much as 100 miles away. Having been gradually replaced during the last several years by the newer F/A-18E/F, the last of the aircraft in US service will be officially retired on Friday, September 22nd in a ceremony at Virginia's Oceana Naval Air Station. However, at least a few F-14s will continue to fly for a few more years: Iran — which took delivery of 79 aircraft before the overthrow of the Shah — still flies the plane, though only a small number (perhaps ten or twenty) are believed to still be in service due to a lack of spare parts and attrition."

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I think that it is interesting that search results are censored in the U.S (everything MPAA complains about), and in Germany, try to do searches on nazis. The point is that most search engines already do censorship in the west, and now that big dangerous un-democratic china asks for similar stuff we all of a sudden apply a double standard.
I think it is great that Google develops on Chinas market as well, this way the chinese will get use to information, and be aware of which information is censoered. I belive the slow process of making a democraty of china is getting a small small push by all this

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