I see.
So finally, I have a question: What do you think about the USA F-14A/B’s current status? Since I don’t own an F-14IRA, I’d like to hear the opinion of someone who flies one.
its not an aim54, theyre great missile and thats it, its the fastest missile in the game without anything coming close, it will catch anybody whos slightly distracted, and because its become rare i doubt it happens that rarely.
I personally think the f14A should get aim9L and the f14B aim9m and aim54 rework to what it should be like in irl the aim54A acts like a aim7f till it pitbulls so it balances out and for the f14B should get aim9m since it goes up against r73 type missiles like the su33 can bvr with the f14B with r27er witch are extremely strong especially with it tws and hmd and theirs other planes but its too much to try and remember right now as im in the movies theater right now (im waiting for it to start)
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You don’t tend to face F-14s in BVR you face Su-30s, F/A-18s and F-15s which wipe the floor with it and when you merge if you survive with a whopping 60CMs you then have a rear aspect IR missile, equivalent of an AIM-9J…at 13.0???
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Sure, you can dodge it, but you’ll have to give up on guiding the Phoenix
I’m not bringing four Phoenixes, so I really want to hit it.
So you both spam missiles and they miss then close and the F-14A and B wipe the floor because they don’t have an IR missile not from the 1970s.
I agree Fakours were strong but the jet is now completely dead, Gaijin could add 2 more Fakours and maybe it would improve it. But not against what it currently faces.
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Indeed, the F-14B has the advantage in close combat… I see, so the Phoenix should really just be used for luck-based shots. I’ll prioritize evasion from now on. Thanks for clearing up my doubts. 👍
Fakour is no different no Fox 3 is a guaranteed thing, you can literally turn 90 and drop a handful of a chaff and notch a AIM-120C!
Point is the F-14IR has one trick and that’s a faster Phoenix, when those are gone you have the capabilities and missiles of a jet much lower than the BR it is.
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I see. Since I’d only flown the F-14A/B before, this is helpful. Back when the F-14 IRAF was implemented, it got thoroughly beaten by a ton of Fakour so I might have been overestimating it a bit.
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It is better at BVR than the F-14A due to the Fakour, however 13.0 is always 13.3 -13.7 and the F-14A IR suffers now as it is almost a full generation behind these airframes. It needs some help, maybe it will get some…
Well, let’s hope things move in a positive direction!
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The Fakour-90 is capable of being mounted on the same pylons as the AIM-54A iirc, this was designed on purpose. The Fakour-90 doesn’t utilise the body of the I-HAWK, the dimensions are slightly different from the AIM-54 but it features similarities in dimension more akin to the 54A rather than to the I-HAWK.
That’s completely untrue, the Fakour-90 is actually larger than it should actually be in-game, this is by a small unnoticeable metric but not as ridiculously large as you claim. The Fakour-90 doesn’t use the same missile body as the I-HAWK - use this report as reference.
The 20Gs is a hard limit in-game based on available sources on the I-HAWK, little information is known about the Fakour-90 hence Gaijin and bug reporters relying on information known publicly about both the I-HAWK and AD-40. That’s not mentioning the fact that many reports indicate that the Fakour-90 is a digital ARH missile, yet it uses majority of the guidance statistics of the AIM-54A in-game, an analogue missile.
The Fakour-90 is actually underperforming in-game rather than overperforming. Please stop spreading incorrect information - example: Fakour-90 incorrect guidance delay
I’m happy with how Gaijin has currently configured the Fakour-90. They’ve taken a safe approach by using the available information from the AD-40 and I-HAWK, combined with the AIM-54As guidance system, to create a reasonable interpretation of the missile - basically a middle ground based on what is known (albeit with minor issues, like said incorrect guidance delay).
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Not really the rwr dosent always pick it up and the bol pods are weak so you have to spam them
One that was pretty realistic for the f14 so I could see a lil bit y they put in the br but it’s not like we the player base choose that br for it that was just poor handling by gajin
I mean their 12 people on the other side and closing in fast and you got 2-4 aim54’s what else are you spouse to do bvr in this game is barely a thing and the aim54 is spouse to be a lot more better than it is now and honestly even the f14 airframe are missing some stuff like honestly you can’t side climb and go up because it’s a hdn radar and top of that the fire ball well just help people out cause everyone is dogfighting and using cms and multi pathing and either your team wipes every one out and they get wiped out
By the time that brochure was made I bet the mig-31 already existed and replaced the foxbat, and then the f-14 would’ve had to deal with much superior radar and missiles that the mig-31 had
I think that’s the point. Nothing countered the F-14 at the time. This is an 1970 ad and the MiG-31 was introduced in 1981.
The MiG-31 didn’t get the R-37M until 2011, much past the time of any F-14. And for the radar, both the AWG-9 and Zaslon had the same detection range against fighters. Actually, both radars are very similar, being able to resist jamming exceptionally well and being able to track 24 targets simultaneously. Except the obvious difference, that one came out 2 decades before the other, and on a much better platform.
And that’s comparing the Tomcat A to the 2011 MiG-31.
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What. I’m talking about 1980s mig-31b with r-33, that was SARH sure but it had ability to be fired at multiple targets at once paired with a pesa radar that was superior than that of the tomcats .
Not 2011 r37m on mig-31bm.
Better platform is debatable, since sure the f-14a was more maneuverable, but the mig-31 was much faster at all altitudes and would be able to detect and launch its missile on the f-14a before it could see it. For its role as a interceptor/airspace defender, it was superior to the tomcat