F-14 Tomcat: History, Performance & Discussion

F-14 by a nautical mile

Irl

FA.2 by a lightyear

only noobs play it cause its miserable otherwise, peopel see it they try it they see its crap and dont do anything anymore

absolute delusion mate

In what way

9m? aim120? you get a great loadout at 13.0 sure the airframe might be crap but you have actual tooth in the fight. f14b gets aim9l, and aim7m/aim54cs.

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But you’re very limited in the amount.

If you want 4 amraam you get no guns

4 amraams is better than 4 9ls and 4 aim54s/aim7

i played IRIAF with sparrows and phoenixes just because i wanted to check if US mains coping about F-14 has some truth to it. I found out that there is not a lot of truth.

It just isn’t though

ok come back when you have something to say that isnt nonsense mate. we can talk facts, such as the absolute horrible loadout on these aircraft, or we can talk nonsense like you are doing saying stuff like this doesnt mean anything.

it is, its not even an argument

Are you really being serious.

8 missiles and a Vulcan capable of Mach 2+

Vs 4 amraam subsonic and extremely underperforming

8 terrible missiles(for the br of course) with a radar incapable of making use of 4 properly, with a great gun and airframe.

or a terrible airframe with a decent radar and 4 of the best missile of the br but no gun i know what i would take

Lmao if you say so

this conversation is genuinely crazy mate, you really need to play something that isnt an harrier sometime

The biggest con with the F-14s I’ve found is the 9km ACM, the AWG-9 can be a bit finnicky sometimes, and only being able to get a lock within 9km is a bit detrimental when I’m used to shooting AIM-7s around 11-13km. (irl the Tomcat had a PAL mode, which is kinda similar to the ACM we have in game but it went out to ~28km)

Other than that, the Tomcats are pretty good. The A’s are pretty limited on their CM counts like the MiG-29, but the B is solid.

in the event.

Lmao

I play lots of different planes

I would rather take the F-18A to 13.0 then the FA.2

Even in real ARB matches I do fine with it.

doing fine, isnt a measure of an aircraft being good. i was doing fine in the su27sm back when the radar was broken doesnt mean the aircraft was “solid”.

how can the worst aircraft at the br (or second worse if you believe the sea harrier fa2 is worse) be “solid”.