Pretty plane, the F-14. Tom Cruise flew one when he was in the Navy. Reuters tossed this picture in to spice up a story about how the administration is developing plans to attack Iran (touching up plans would be a better description since we've probably got a plan for attacking Canada; the Iran plans were probably filed next to the Ireland contingency folder).

A plane is a plane right? Maybe they can use this picture for their next Navy plane photo; its fuzzy but cool. Or one of these. Perhaps Reuters can do a story on what kinds of planes the Navy is actually flying now days. They can start here; you know the paper that does deep investigative journalism.

Now I like to spice up my posts with a picture now and then but until Mick starts paying better, I'm inclined to use the first photo that Google images delivers to me (like a fuzzy picture of an F-4 breaking the sound barrier). I would have expected Reuters to at least photoshopped an F-18 on the deck of a carrier.

Oh, I forgot to mention there is only one country in the world that keeps the F-14 in their inventory now - Iran when they can get the spare parts.