Meet the first supersonic operational Navy jet fighter. This Tiger is one of the rarest of all the Grumman “cats” with only 200 built and very few survivors. The Tiger started life as an F9F Panther/Cougar variant and Grumman’s answer to a modernized Cougar. However, it was such a departure from the Cougar design with a 35-degree swept wing, coke-bottle-shaped fuselage, and reduced transonic drag, it was designated the F-11A Tiger. The Navy saw potential in the design and soon placed it with fiv