Yeah I’ve always seen bits and pieces of this capability in the APG-71 but it’s never been this clear and from a trustable source. It makes sense since this is around this time the Captor-M (should’ve) been developing. Unfortunately even if Gaijin actually took in good info from the people who actually flew the jets, the EFT should’ve had it for a year now so I don’t see it being implemented.
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Fakours are stronger when used at shorter ranges because players don’t expect an Iranian tomcat player to keep their Fakours. So you’ll have barely a few seconds to react before you have a huge warhead hit you. Same with the Seds if you can get them to work.
Honestly, gaijin just needs to revamp the aircraft.
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Never happen cuz most weapon stuffs are still classified :/
Another picture of this same missile on the wing-glove pylons.
According to the caption of the image this missile was used to test drag and seeker slaving to radar. Obviously anecdotal but very telling of how integrated the AMRAAM was with even the test versions of APG-71.
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Should be enough for Gaijin to give AMRAAMs to the F-14D. But Gaijin will be Gaijin so god knows what will happen with it.
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I could I borrow that link? for the form I that I have
Yeah, probably the first fighter jet in service with that kind of ability since eurofighter didn’t go into service until the mid 2000s, and also not including the mig-31 (doesn’t really count since esa radars inherently have that ability)
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hopefully they just forget about it as the F14D would not be fun with 120A at 13.7 youll be facing aesa planes like SM2 which you stand no chance against in anyway shape or form even in a dogfight which is beyond unlikely F14 is just too old to face stuff like that without ST-21 upgrades
F14D will be nothing but a free kill at that tier similar to F4C
It is repost but, I just noticed ECM override switch is missing from F-14A late cockpit.
I thought switch is still remain and just not functional but, seems all F-14A that has ALR-67 no longer has the switch.
For explain about ECM override switch, F-14A that has ALR-45/50 RWR doesn’t have its own RWR display, they uses HSD instead.
Mostly HSD shows TID screen from RIO seat but, pilot can switch TID outputs to ECMD screen that shows RWR pinging.
If you turned on ECM override switch, HSD will switch to ECMD screen automatically if RWR gets ping.
I think it can still get aim120 even at 13.3 theirs a lot of planes with AMRAAMs/r77 (and other fox3 equivalent) at that br
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I assume that F-14 is NF-14 from PMTC.
Interesting photo!
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So you think it’s as strong as the Taiwanese F-16A MLU, even though it has like 45 CMs and only 6 missiles?
it cant all 13.3s have bad radars it would be 13.7 with F15C it would never be same br as a F16A with 6 ammarams it would be a slightly worse F15C in FM wise at same br facing 14.3s
if it was 13.3 they would artficially nerf the radar for balance reasons then theres no reason to get the D model over the B which is why 120s are a bad idea
It’s a picture from a book I have
Vastly better FM and I’m pretty sure that’s the worst F-16ADF variant.
Can’t the F-14 just out rate it? It’ll last a whole lot longer in a fight or battle, because of the shear CM count, so It’ll just notch all of the missiles without even being to running out, and it isn’t an ADF.
Not all the su30mk2/su30kk,f2a(yes ik it dosent have a fox3 but its a aesa radar) have good radars,jf17, j11 and the f16 have mid to good radar s and some other planes have hms witch is a plus
In a one circle the f14 has a chance but in a 2 circle it dosent and it can really only out rate stuff with it wings out and flaps out and it really only preforms good in low altitude also it’s bol cm are mid at best especially with it after burners being hot as the sun and it rcs being huge and it being a br surrounded by irccm and better fox3 and notch in this aircraft can be a death sentence as it big heavy and has slow acceleration to things like su27(if the su27 dosent do falling leaf type sh** or cash in all their energy),f16,f15,mig29 they would just be behind you reeling you in or get close enough and some other aircraft where no you can’t just speed away unless it’s something like a av8 all aircraft at this br have decent to good acceleration just like the f14B or in some cases better
Missile load out/radar doesn’t always determine br as the su30mk2/su30mkk prove this and the dual aim120 rails for the f14D it just something some of us are coping to get especially since it would just total up to 10 missiles just like the su30mk2/su30mkk but for balancing reasons I wouldn’t be surprised if the f14D doesn’t get dual aim120 racks. You can’t really compare a f15C fm to the F14B let alone a f14D it already know the D variant dosent really improve in FM other then its Digital Flight Control System (DFCS witch isn’t fly by wire for tomcats) The D model introduced a digital flight control system that significantly improved handling especially at high angles of attack or during air combat maneuvering but it still uses the same engines while also weighing a lil more. for you argument it would’ve been better to use the f15A but even then the f15A has better acceleration and better energy retention compared to the f14B
As for the radars artificial nerf it would most likely be just like the awg9 artificial nerf like the acm, and slaving tcs/irst(yes ik all aircraft with this type of function dosent have them) but even then the apg71 probably will still better to use than awg9 since it won’t be limited to head on. Also like the aim54c I think you won’t really reach Mach 5.0 do to of that most bvr engagement happen between 35-50 miles it’s pretty hard to get a full red circle lock farther then 50 miles and people will maneuver witch would just make it harder for the aim54c+ to reach those speeds as the aim54 in game struggles to even reach Mach 4.3 even while going as fast as you can
Most do, the PIRATE IIR sensor on the relevant Typhoons and and OEPS, & OLS systems on Russian fighters can support missiles.
The AXX-1 TCS on the other hand got forgotten, and it’s “not a bug”.
The F-14B should be impacted by this change to IRST/EOTS
"Presently the F-14B doesn’t use its EO tracker as part of its STT automation. As such isn’t subject to the fix requested.
The fix for the aircraft mentioned in this report is only to resolve the automation rapidly changing between radar and IR/EO while in STT. It isn’t to grant full launch capabilities in those modes and doesn’t allow for it when manually switching to IR/EO modes."
I’m not too hopeful that the AAS-42 of the F-14D would be properly implemented, considering that neither the, AAA-4(F-8E / F-106), ASX-1 (F-4E 2000), or AXX-1(F-14B) have been touched since IRSTs were revised. let alone gotten add on systems like the ALR-23 for the F-14A’s in game.
Sheesh I didn’t know irst systems got revised