In WT F-14 IRlAF can carry the R27R missiles. But on the earth, lRlAF bought the MlG-29 in 1990s and theygot the R-73 and R-27 missiles from Russians.Since lran was unable to acquire new American-mademissiles for its F-14s, this led the lRlAF to begin retrofitting in order to enable these F-14s to deploy Soviet.made missiles, including the R-27 long-range air-to-air missile and the R-73 infrared missile in the 1990s.in2013, the lRlAF put out some photos about the F-14A carried the R-27 missiles. According to informationavailable on the lnternet, the lranian Air Force’s F-14 can be equipped with R-73 air-to-air missiles.l don’t thinklranian F-14 can only carry R-27R and AlM-9P, so l suggest to add the R-27ER and R-73 in weapon choices ofthis Basin Tomcat.
Just so I’m understanding this… your reasoning for the F-14A IRIAF getting the R-27ER and R-73 is because they received MiG-29s?
Just because an adjacent aircraft possibly had these missiles doesn’t mean they’d automatically add it to the existing jets they have. Furthermore, it’s not really a War Thunder thing to simply put something on a pylon and declare it a missile/bomb used by the aircraft in service. Lots of things get ‘tested’ on the ground first just to see if it would fit and is almost never used in service or at the very least a common occurrence in combat.
EDIT: edited for misinformies
They should remove R-27Rs instead.
Even Iranians failed to upgrade R-27Rs for their F-14A. AWG-9 couldn’t guide the missiles.
They are still using AIM-7E-4s and AIM-9J/Ps.
As long as the YaK-41 has IRST and the F-16AJ remains in-game then I see no reason for the removal of the missile.
I stand corrected. Much appreciated
They are still using AIM-7E-4s
The AIM-7E-4s were delivered in incredibly small quantities, they’d mostly be using E-2s and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve ran out of E-4s by now already.
But probably Not on and F14. If you have proof that they Did let us know
Because of the BR placement, this has already been explained, also because this is a weird conglomerate F-14A, it’s missing a few weapons which I think Gaijin is waiting to add to a sub tree variant.
Also the Iranians don’t use the R-27ER, the implementation of the R-27R is already controversial.
no need for the ER anyways. you have that HAWK
i mean you kinda have to have proof and i havent seen anything thats actually credible even if it is true
There are public images and it’s acknowledged that the Iranians have indeed tested the R-27R1 on their Tomcats but I’m yet to see the same for the R-73E.
The R-73E has been tested and fired from the F-4Es successfully however and we could see that in the future.
(i read your post wrong oopsies)
no the AWG-9 could theoretically guide the missiles, the issue was it crashed the hardpoint computer, so it literally couldn’t be selected to even test the launch
iirc, they tested both, R-73 worked but they saw little point as the mig-29 was a significantly better dogfighting platform and decided to put the good things together, plus they used the F-14As for interception and not air superorority
It can’t even fire the normal R-27R, the heck makes you think it can use the ER and R-73? There literally no proof other than hearsay on the matter.
F-14 never used to pylons for R-73s, and never tried R-27ERs on F-14.
R27ER is completely incompatible with the F14’s datalink, which would be required to launch the missile beyond 25km against a 1.0 RCS target, and there is no evidence to suggest that the F14’s radar or the R27 missiles were ever actually proven to be compatible with each other in the first place.
There are pictures showing the R27 mounted to the Iranian F14’s, but no evidence they could be launched and guided by the F14
the F-14 was incompatable with the R-27R1’s datalink anyway lmaoo