F90 is the best bvr missile, 20gs while good acceleration and you get 6 at super high range, easy to spam fox 3 until they go pitbull and then just rtb rearm and again. Good airframe and turning, overall some 13.7s say that they suffer from f90s more than medium-range fox3s
Why do you complain about jets you haven’t even played? The Fakour is not the best BVR missile. It’s the best-ranged missile, but the best BVR missile is the Aim-120B.
You also don’t have 6. You have 4. This is how I know you don’t play the F-14 and aren’t being truthful.
It’s airframe is good, but the engines suck, and the only 13.7s that suffer from the Fakour are bots. Anyone dying to the fakour more than Modern Fox 3s is not good at the game.
In my opinion, we need at least 15.0 decompression before the end of this year.
Almost everyone knows that F-14A IRIAF acts better than F-14A USN
(Thanks to Fakour which is now in the perfect cherry-picking sweet spot)
Also, you know that it is quite unfair that the F-14A USN is stuck in a higher place than the Mirage 2000C.
Right?
Long ago, it was pure bullshit when F-14A USN saw Mirage IIIC or Hunter F.6 thanks to shit tons of compression than now.
Then F-14A USN took no direct nerf on BR in two years. Every adjustment was followed as a side-effect of Decompression, and can be considered as an ‘indirect nerf’
Then IRIAF comes out.
Silly ‘sidegrade’(Laugh) version of F-14A USN which acts superior
Gaijin must’ve thought it was just like the F-4J(USN)/F-4J(UK) case.
It just killed an 11.3-12.3 match with Fakour. Of course, It also seems that it killed the reason to play F-14A USN.
After two years of bloodshed since the danger zone, Both F-14A USN and IRIAF got the first direct Nerf in BR in their history. (Gaijin is dumb enough to think Phoneix and Fakour are ‘same’)
If we consider F-4E or F-104S, F-14A is 12.7 capable. But there were some options also should’ve followed.
F-4J/S should’ve gone up to 12.3. (yes. there is no means to having a gap between them that large.)
F-4EJ and Mirage 2000C should’ve gone up to 12.7 with F-14A.
It would’ve been better if Gaijin did proper decompression in October 2024, but those greedy bastards didn’t.
I know it is unfair that F-14A USN sees F-15C, and was saw F-15E.
But at the same time, It is also unfair that send F-104S back to see F-14A
I can’t remember how much time I claimed that
we need decompression and nerfing underrated counterparts to follow up, not buffing F-14A back to harass the match all over again.
F-14A IRIAF is 12.85 material. it can’t be either 12.7 or 13.0.
I stopped playing this the second it was spaded, not a single F-14A fragged my 3C.
One fragged my 3E cause I misjudged an entrance, so he got guns on, but 3C remains to this day an F-14A’s menace.
When I say I miss fighting F-14s with my F-5C equivalent aircraft, I mean it. I miss it, I miss the rush of entering the engagement correctly and fragging something so notorious.
Now? F-14 frags give me no joy cause not only are they objectively worse than the aircraft of their BR, but their notorious reputation died.
I get dopamine from F-15C/A frags though since they’re objectively OP.
I understand your joy which comes from the ‘slaying dragon’ hype.
Fragging superior jet with inferior one…
Everyone loves that moment. right?
Flying Tornado GR.1 and shoving AIM-9L into F-14A or F-16A’s ass
or Fragging F-15A while flying and grinding stock Mirage 2000CS-4 bia useless Super 530F (which was defeated by a single chaff drop)
Ah, I almost fell off my chair when I killed F-15A with my 2000CS-4 because of laughing. good old time…
I just want to say that
Vintage Jets with no RWR and no CM shouldn’t see F-14A in the first place.
I am glad that era has ended, gone, forever.
You might be skilled enough to slay F-14A with your Mirage 3C while none of F-14 managed to kill you. and it was super-hyped enough to give dopamines.
But it doesn’t give any kind of indulgence to F-14A at the ‘Danger Zone’ which was in a heavily compressed situation and taking advantage of it.
Anyway, I am a bit worrying about derailing though.
This topic was originally for ‘F-14A IRIAF is still overperforming’ thread. :|
F15A sat under br’d for so long man when it was 12.3 and everything else was 12.7.
The f14 btw is still a fantastic platform, overall, its. Like a jack of all trades master of none.
With correct fuel management you can get into dogfights with most of the roster and win, not against F16s and such but mirage 2000s and that sort of level you can.
Biggest issue is its up against the likes of J10A’s ,gripens, f16A/Cs etc
What would actually benefit most people, gen 4.5s like the ef2000 and such to 14.3 or maybe 14.7
Then move the likes of them f14B up up to 13.3, IRIAF at 13.0 and the standard a to 127 ?
Whats your thoughts on that ?
It would also mean we could move up the likes of the phantoms and gripens etc that all got moved down, so fgr1s etc to 12.3 bellow the F14A, and would stop them getting their teeth stuffed in by gripens.
13.0 for gripens F16s etc even without the arh missiles is criminal, 12.0s stand absolutely no chance.
Your conversation isnt off topic, the relation of the 14A and compression mixed with how folks spammed it against jets with no rwr explains why it is at its br.
The f14A iriaf isnt overperforming persay but.is a victim of compression
The long answer, that due to gaijins balance metrics on BR placement that we all dont truly understand we have to speculate vehicle BR not based off.of general individual experiences but the average overall perfromance of the jet.
In which the F14A IRIAF is as you say above the 14A however due to the current br limit we cannot.move it higher
This would all be solved if they buffed the F-14s to their IRL performance. But Gaijin refuses because without it America has a big gap in BRs and Capability. Give the F-14A it’s buffs and it could easily be 13.0, IRIAF - 13.3, F-14B - 13.7
The thing is almost all 11.3s - 13.7s need to move up by a minimum of 0.3, and in reality, a number of them need to move up by 0.7 [some of the 13.0s through some of the 13.7s].
