F-14 was a very complex and expensive to maintain. A beauty, but an Hangar Queen in her last years.
Maybe by "peers" the author meant it was one of the "teen" fighters serie,
F-14, F-15, F-16 and F/A-18.
Like there was the "century" fighters, F-102, F-104, F-105, F-106.
Maybe by "peers" the author meant it was one of the "teen" fighters serie, F-14, F-15, F-16 and F/A-18. Like there was the "century" fighters, F-102, F-104, F-105, F-106.