Look, just don’t put yourself in situations where the F-15 has that sort of advantage
You do still need to achieve a soft lock and wait for the aim54 to accelerate and get to Mach 3.8 because I’ve never seen it go Mach 4.0 or even sustain it and plus the f15 can put the f14 in a defensive as well once the f14 gets 30 miles close to the f15
I mean, i just don’t know how to fly an f14 as I’ve never had one, I just stated it is really easy to defeat and can’t think of a peer plane that I’d easily lose to one in. What’d be a good tactic do you think to beat, a semi competent f15?
The thing is, if he wants to kill me, he’ll have to maintain lock-on, and within the AIM-7M’s range, the AIM-54 doesn’t need soft lock it reaches the Mad Dog very quickly , So the F-14 is much quicker to respond to aggression
Positioning, I think, is essential for the F-14 to deal with the F-15,
Yes he has to maintain a lock but it sill possible to put pressure and notch and the aim54 does need soft lock to fire the missile as it should be know awg9 can be blind and it has a long pitbull range but it’s still a slow missile unless it gets a chance to get up to speed but then their the fact that we’re talking a aim54 witch can be notch easily
Let’s say both take off at the same time, won’t the f15 get to altitude much quicker? And can then just notch as the f14 keeps getting closer and then pull in. Makin short work of it. I really can’t see a realistic way f14 can beat it.