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No. The true reason is financial. Prior to the F-14's decommission, each aircraft carrier sail with several TYPES of aircrafts: fighters, refuelers, EW, and helos. Parts must be available for all of them. The logistic burden made their officers desirable employees in the civilian world. The F-18 Super Hornet platform changed all of that. It allowed the ship to sail with more weapons, for the aircrafts and for the ship itself, is not as dependent on replenishment as before, and actually made the fleet more mobile. Supposedly even the E-2 AWACS was not spared the logistic reduction knife. The older version had counter-rotating props but the newer version does not, that made parts to counter-rotate one engine unnecessary. E2 pilots must use their airmanship to fly an properller driven aircraft that has no counter-rotating prop to compensate for torque.I read an interview given by a Aircraft carrier. These are still very useful, and can still out do many of the modern aircraft systems. He said price of maintenance, was part of the problem. The biggest reason is that the US forces wants to stop making spare parts for the F-14s. Because they could some how get to the Iranians; this is why they destroyed most of the F-14s and only kept a few which is usually not the case for most aircraft, which are decommissioned and this would not have been done to the F-14s, if it hadn't been for Iran, bringing the fleet back to operational status.
If the US does not trust itself to keep F-14s away from Iran, why would it trust any other country?
Understanding Propeller Torque and P-Factor - wiki.flightgear.org
The US Navy wanted an aircraft carrier group to be less dependent upon logistics as possible while deployed. The F-14's age aided the decision.Torque effect is the influence of engine torque on aircraft movement and control. It is generally exhibited as a left turning tendency in piston single engine propeller driven aircraft.
This correction induces adverse yaw, which is corrected by moving or trimming the rudder (right rudder).