F-14 Tomcat: History, Performance & Discussion

Yep Fakours are fast but all these other jets can just enter the notch while shooting back at you.
Plus 6 Missiles in BVR vs a Su-30 with 12 missiles.

Gaijin have no idea how to balance a game.

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Money is better then balance

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Dam that sucks the bug report was closed as not “enough info”

So, how does the BRM think that Look down capability is conferred by a Pulse type seeker?

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Hughes Aircraft is just magic I guess.

@ItzMikeyzWRLD-psn does the f-14d irst have ranging

yep

Laser? Or does it use passive methods like pirate on eurofighter?

yeah passive modes like Pirate. Although it does heavily improve LANTIRN performance when used in conjunction iirc

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I mean, reading through some of the sources, it does not say pulse doppler. It mentions frequency modulation, so this likely points towards a FMCW type signal, not a pulse (doppler) type. In any case, for all intends and purposes, FMCW is very similar to pulse doppler in that both are able to resolve range and doppler shift, just in FMCW case range is encoded through frequency differences (known as the beat frequency). This would similarly as a PD signal, allow for beam aspect tracking. So the report is not probably not correct in the sense that the AIM-54C should be pulse doppler, but rather it should be FMCW (opposed to CW of AIm-54A). In-game, it can just be modelled as a pulse doppler.

Look-down can already be solved using just CW (like the AIM-54A), but the point was that this new seeker also had beam aspect ability.

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from The AIM-54 Phoenix missile - Technology, History and Performance - #2403 by kizvy

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That would make sense why Pulse Doppler or MPRF never showed up as a mention for the Aim-54C! Nice find.
@malucobeleza171-psn If you want you could resubmit the report with this new info.

There is better information on AIM-54C seeker available.

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post it

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Forum about F-14B should be 12.7 gone again. Sadly.

Not sadly the conclusion was made and wasn’t needed

Just do this its ok and didnt need to change br.
F-14B 13.0
-AIM-9M
-AIM-7P
-PD all aspect

F-14A 12.7
-AIM-9L
-AIM-7M
-PD all aspect

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I really wish I could get a late-model F-14A, an F-14B(U), or an F-14D… and I’ll keep hoping forever that they’ll raise the BR cap so each Tomcat can perform reliably…

I hope that will be the case for all aircraft in other countries as well.

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Post the better info on the Seeker

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Left on read 🥀

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Lmao fr though like I had to dig for about a week in the wayback machine/internet archive to even find evidence of those sources. If he has better info we need that.

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