Personal i want to see AIM-7P in F-14D and fix br compression. but for AIM-120A im ok if they would add or not.
I want to mention that according to the NF-14A thread, that F-14 is still a standard F-14A, just refitted with 14D radar and missile guidance.
Though you can check out for yourself with the link i posted earlier. This is the only F-14 to have fired an amraam.
Dude if you can find that link I’m sure you can find the one about the f14D(R)
Every single document you mentioned about this F-14D(R) was mostly funding and testing related, with no mention of a real aircraft beyond a single early F-14 test bed (which we know as the NF-14A PMTC-226).
There was no integration (integration was cancelled). There was no F-14D (only tested on an F-14A). There was no funding (funding was cut). So how could your aircraft have existed?
D(R) that i mean was a service plane (18 airframes upgraded from F-14A models). In this picture it was NF-14A that are test base plane.
But these D(R) still did not carry aim-120s, did they? So this “F-14D with aim-120” remains fake. When I said fake D(R), I was referring to this hypotetical F-14D that was somehow integrated with aim-120, which as we all know does not exist.
In game premuim model are new 37 airframe.
Yep thats rigth.
You do still release their the same airframe and the f14D has the full tech to use aim-120A if it wasn’t for a software update to add the rest of capabilities of the AMRAAMs
Sure sounds contradicting with “cancelled integration and funding”. You’d think if it was that simple, why don’t the navy just bolt on existing aim-120s on those F-14s then?
Tecniqly F-14D need to upgared softwere too use AIM-120 but navy chose a LANTERN pod.
But for me in game logic if they decide to add KH38MT , R27 in IRAN one , APFSDS in BMPT or any thing that not make sense or historical. Or use logic if it ONLY PLAN will get it. I think the reason to add AIM-120 would be ok.
I think people oversimplify “it only needed to update software”. Like, its the late 80s, not 2010s. You don’t just download software over wifi and call it a day. Updating software often involved removing hardware and recabling the aircraft so that it can launch new weapons.
Hell, one of the F-15C’s MLU upgrades was giving it modern enough hardware that can accept software without doing all of this.
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You mean Kh38MT but for Air-Air?
ARMAT in Mirage 2000-5s, the missile was already retired by the time they went to service. The French -5F didn’t even have Ground strike until it’s upgrade that was after the retirement of the missile (before 1999) , Greek Mirage 2000-5Mk2 doesn’t even share -5Fs processor and electronics, it has the Rafale’s ones , fully digitalized , glass cockpit etc .and the plane came 2007 way after the missiles retirement and completely incompatible with the analogue missile. Hell Mk2 can’t even use 530D…Not even -5F could , nor they were technically compatible .
This one too. Why they don’t give it Fatter (practically a 9P-5 in characteristics , it’s not that they’ll work…), but they insist in R-27R fantasy?
Imagine , personally i support historical accuracy and even prototypes/experimentals if they are truly needed , but the game justifies people that ask 120 in 14D, even if normally i would be against it…
They have so many BS in here that 120 in the 14D is more real than it…a damn software upgrade.
The Mirage 2000-5s for example even lack physical components…
A-7H with Shrikes and LANA even lacks the physical components to use them…
They won’t be able to turn on the missiles and pods, they can’t use them.
Ofc you can state your opinion in the forum, but trying to justify GJ in their cherry picking is an auto-loss in the argument.
Imho they should pick a line…in the line GJ has now, 120 on 14D is just as justified as the other examples (even if i don’t want that, i like historical accuracy personally).
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F-16XL is the latest plane with fake equipment and armament
Do they want to wait one more update to make F-14D differ from F-14B?
it has different radar and added IRST
prototypes are treated differently than production aircraft
F-16XL may have lacked weapons but we’re getting a “what if” it had entered service. F-14D was in service and didn’t get AIM120s.
same reason why XP50 and XP55 have guns at all
I can’t believe they called a missile fat
More like if a Fakour and a Mica had a baby
People did complain about this btw, especially on the upcoming greek mirage which should have no compatibility at all.
80’s software upgrade ain’t just downloading things into a computer and it suddenly works. If it were that simple, why was it so expensive that the navy have to slash the whole funding for it?
These were all complained about, rather than being actively pushed, like this tomcat thread.
True prototypes that couldn’t carry weapons are treated differently than existing service planes. idk what to tell you. If your plane never had any weapons, then its easy for Gaijin to make up fake loadouts. The Tomcat is a real plane, with existing weapon loadouts. It is very much not a 16XL or Yak 141