F5 is overperforming
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Lol you wish the F-14 maneuvered worst in real life. It’s most likely underperforming because most other jets like the F-16 and Deltas are overperforming. Add fly-by-wire flight control systems to the game and suddenly the F-14 looks a lot better.
you used an F/A-18A manual to justify all the F/A-18’s overperforming in some way
Its not underperforming, its probably close to where it should be, its overperforming by an insignificant margin in STR at highspeed and high alt compared to the SAC however.
and anyways, where is visual evidence of harrier pulling the aoa? wouldnt be surprised if it was just a harrier marketing gimmick or puffing up RN capabilities
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Harrier missing extreme amounts of AOA and low speed control // Gaijin.net // Issues
All the sources are there straight from the American USMC manual.
its FM is only overperforming cause of slats at wrong speeds RN but its radar is heavily nerfed compared to IRL the AWG-9 Is weaker than AN/APG-59 on F4J
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I didn’t mean to say it was underperforming in that sense. I was comparing it to other planes overperforming. I like the F-14 FM. I think it’s great. What’s not great is the F-16A pulling 40 degrees of AoA at 150kph and the Eurofighter completely bypassing it’s confirmed AoA limit of 24.
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you just cant say that F-14 is overperforming in FM just due to lack of auto-flaps… and overall bad modelling
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so it is only really good at insanely low airspeeds or bleeding all its energy in a tvc turn?
It could do this up to 300 knots lol, and the loss of speed with the use of VIFF nozzle biting is minimal, in-fact the use of 15-20 degree nozzle angles actually allowed the Harrier to sustain turns greater than what the wing would be able to give in ITR.
The way a lot of people understand VIFF is very misguided, and in fact VIFFing does not exist in War Thunder as it doesn’t effect the jets flight characteristics at all like the real thing.
Completely agree with you here, the F-16 can pretty much beat the Hornet in a nose to nose fight and it absolutely should not.
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Harrier Maneuverability: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6gNuR29O6A
F-14 Tomcat Maneuverability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiyZPmy9N9U
If you have a better comparison please send it. I’ve advocated for harrier maneuverability buffs before and I still do but it doesn’t look close.
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yeah and when a F14 stalls you can recover it (excluding the A model cause of compressor stalls)
Go to the harrier thread to complain about the harrier
There is a thing called irrecoverable flat spin
And like the name suggests, you can’t recover from them
yeah if your damaged yeah you’ll enter one of those
The F-14 doesn’t have those if it’s undamaged. Especially the later models with DFCS. If it has the altitude it can recover.
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i could go into full real mode and stall my F14 and recover its not impossible
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i think the DEVS just dont wanna model them cause it would be hard since ya know varible geometry wing and all that
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