Models are outsourced
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Yeah but im not sure to which companies so just generalised tbf.
The Royal Navy were planning to get the F-14B, but the RAF wanted the F-14D variant. But instead they went for the F-4 Phantoms. It will be really nice to have the F-14s in the GB Tech Tree as Premiums.
Errr… The RAF and RN first got their phantoms in 1969, the F-14 wasnt in service until 1974, and the D variant didnt enter service until 1990, so how tf could they have been wanting it?
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The Royal Air force wanted the F14 not the navy and it was for F14As as the Tornado ADV was taking too long
They didn’t but the F14 as it was too expensive and that they were promised that the Tornado ADV would come soon ( it didn’t)
Yes i know the air force considered the F-14 but the claim that we got the Phantoms over them is completely false, plus the ADV wax arguably a better choice given the benefits it provided
Well it came extremely late with a not great airframe for the time and the radar took years to even work
The F14 would of been a better bet
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The benifits to industry and export outwieghed it though, it was also a cheaper airframe to maintain meaning lower costs in the long run
i doubt that as both planes were swing wings which would of been high maintenance
ADV was cheaper to maintain though, probably because it didint have arrestor gear, was also again more ideal due to it being a domestic aircraft rather than an off the shelf US one
Both were but Tornado ADV and GR obv shared some parts so it simplified things, alongside being domestic which basically sends the MOD feral as it creates jobs (they dont actually give it a shit but its a great punchline)
The Royal Navy did considered the F-14’s for HMS Queen Elizabeth as for the UK F-14 Scenario Programme.
But the Programme was Cancelled so did the F-14Ds for the Royal Air Force after the scrap of the F-4s.
If it were an F-14A, dunno.
The TF-30s were prone to surging, and had various issues surrounding single engine takeoffs due to the arrangement of their engines. From a safety point of view, the RB199 was superior, and more reliable.
The Foxhunter radar, when it was ironed out, was probably superior to the AWG-9 in terms of look down performance also.
The only major advantages I can think of is the manouevrability aspect, but as the RAF were looking for an interceptor, manouevrability would be less of an issue?
Man oh Man I can’t wait to fly the TSR’2 and hoping to get these schemes for her in customization.
https://www.hyperscale.com/2008/reviews/decals/ma48172previewbg_1.htm
would be nice to see a skin akin to that, since we got a bunch of Ahistorical camos for the F-16AJ, although to be perfectly honest i would be happy with just the anti flash white finish from the prototypes
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F-14A was considered to be truly multirole, and was the only aircraft to have satisfied all requirements, when the teen series was evaluated.
At the time only the F-14 was considered to posses a true BVR capability with the Phoenix and whatwas viewed as a better radar.
F-15 lacked a twin cockpit also and therefore was not as resistant to ECM nor as useful for multirole missions and to reduce pilot workload.
Should they have acquired an American fighter it still likely would’ve been the F-15 due to its lower cost but the F-14 was favoured as a package.
(This is all shit I have read on the internet do not take as 100% fact pls)
With the benefit on hindsight, I would’ve gone for an F-14B with the Foxhunter and some RR engines +UK ECM
I’m not aware of the UK ever considering the F-14 as an alternative to the Phantom (the timelines don’t even line up for that to have been a viable option - the F-14 entered American service 6 years after the Phantom FG.1 and FGR.2 entered British service, there’s no way Britain would have been willing to wait that long). When the P.1154 project was cancelled the FAA and RAF both went to the F-4 as the logical replacement.
The F-14 was however seriously considered as an alternative to the Tornado ADV (F.2 / 3). But the Tornado won that competition. The F-14 was also very briefly considered as an alternative if the Eurofighter project failed, but was very quickly ruled inadequate.
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What about a Flight Training School scheme?
ok perhaps this would explain more.
So that agrees with what I said. They considered it as a Tornado alternative. Not a a phantom alternative.