Model AN/ALR-45 correctly?
Afaik it has handsoff mode but, they doesn’t model it.
You have missiles with very difficult to counter seekers who have enhanced kinematics in dogfights and marginal increase in range over older systems. The ASRAAM can be toted as the “best” but realistically for longer ranged situations it is better off with Meteor or AMRAAM and for fast intercept short range scenarios any other IR missile will do just as good a job or better depending on the situation. Realistically let’s pretend you get an ASRAAM off at the end of the no escape range, are you really going to survive the radar missile they fired at you at the same time? I’d argue your chances are far lower for survival against a radar ordnance in that situation. For stealth something like the R-27T/ET is better where you have good range and maneuverability and it has been around for a lot longer. ASRAAM therefore is no better than a combination of R-73 and R-27T/ET which is exactly what all the other IR missiles are with few exceptions.
Stuff like the Python 5 have all directional attack capability and are better at it than ASRAAM, but when has this been something that was really necessary in real life? There are no real world scenarios that exist where it can effectively use these advantages over other IR missiles.
TL;DR outside of War Thunder these missiles are effectively not any more or less useful than one another and you’d rather never have to use them at all. Ever.
For the purposes of the game I feel the ASRAAM will likely have a nerfed seeker and feel more akin to R-27ET levels of useful at the BR it exists due to MAWS and other features. Imagine thinking you could ever surprise an Su-57 for example with an ASRAAM let alone the Eurofighter. Laughable.
As for the F-14, giving the F-14D an AIM-9X without HMD would make it about as useful as the AIM-9M on the F-14B (something they shouldn’t do, tbqh).
F-14A.
The A Phoenixes are worse than the C’s.
When lol?
I mean, to my understanding the C’s have a better Seeker than the A’s
The only ARH to have a different seeker is the Mica em All other arh missiles in game have the same seeker stats
Gameplay wise i dont really see a real difference between the A and C.
The biggest difference that we could see is the ECCM/Sealed Variant, as i believe the seeker is improved once again (allegedly to -120A standard)
(I wish the F-14B was competitive 🥀)
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Same.
I don’t really like the plane that much, I much prefer the A…
But it was still fun to play back when it came out, to see it so power crept hurts.
But It would be a aim9x still that can pull 50g and have better counter to counter measures. no?
Against more maneuverable enemies with better countermeasure systems, yes
Then they should add them because they both gonna need them ,tbqh
AIM-9M on the F-14B would need to raise the BR, currently it vastly outperforms anything else at the BR that does have active radar missiles… having better ordnance and FM at the same time is cheesy.
Ohhhh, They still didn’t add 9m to F-14B. But add IRRCM missile to another 13.0 jet. I so tried about this. F-14B should get 9m a long time.
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Nah it’s 13.0 that need 9m without rise it’s br up. It’s not competitive then you think. Best 13.0 that can fight against uptier was a SU-33.
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Absolutely not
SU33 has a great capability. It’s have very good R-73 R27ER And have HMS, People thing F-14 are broken because AIM-54, But no they didn’t no how to doge and handle with it. Phoenix are the easier missile to doge then AIM-120 or MICA-EM. If you are real play F-14 you would know it’s lost a lot of capability in uptier br.
1.It’s only have HDN PD while also another jet in this br have all aspect pd
2.You always facing 14.0 br that every one know how to evade Fox3 and it’s only have a 17 G pull Fox 3
3.It’s didn’t get a IRCCM missile that standard in 13.0 br
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Av8b plus/Sea harrier/ef2000/f15j has aim9m alr the su33 has r73 at 13.0 the f14B should most definitely have aim9m
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That also ture.
The F-14B at 13.0 has no need for AIM-9M, it already performs above peers and would stomp them without a BR increase. What you are saying is nonsense.
Note that like three of those planes have aim120 and are 90%ish better than aim54A/C