F-14 Tomcat: History, Performance & Discussion

Does WT model lookup capability? I thought they didn’t model it for balance as all PD radars would just be unnotchable? If they do, then maybe that’s the case. I haven’t seen it happen though. All my sources don’t put any caveats on look down or up in that context, but do in others, so I’m inclined to say it’s a universal thing.


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AIM-54 actually got all aspect seeker with these buffs. Fakour included

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In lookup missiles switch to (pulse) mode and get one chaffed unless you have angle gating.

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Devs saw the F-14 pack revenue and said “hold my beer”, then proceeded to make the Phoenix an amraam.

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i dont see anything of that kind in the datamine

Due to LFM. The AIM-54C isn’t just regular HPRF. I don’t know how they exactly implement it, as they don’t say, but the idea is that you use the regular underlying HPRF waveform for doppler measurements, but use what is essentially an overlayed FMCW waveform to be able to measure to higher unambiguous ranges, allowing separation between targets in range, which the natively low unambiguous range measurement of HPRF wouldn’t allow.

There is the problem where the pulsed waveform introduces some problems with the FMCW range measurements, introducing (blind) range gaps, but it can be solved in some ways, but again nowhere does it actually say how well it performs or how they implement it.

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I’m p sure they tweaked the seeker a bit so it can now target in all aspects properly hm

The aim54C have weaker engine?

And still cw on gzabi list without pd distance?

Gszabi’s list is not updated. All AIM-54s are using HPRF or PD HDN.

Edit: It’s already updated. Gaijin had set up code that defined the types of signals.

Expect ERs while you guide the missile for much more time only for it to bleed its velocity in 1 turn…

Yes, it is.

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You made my morning btw.

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Yes they do, most radars in lookup disable their notch filters, making them much harder to notch, however more susceptible to chaff.

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/tbjIfLfIDzsV
Bug Report for Range Discrimination is up

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so can we get more kill camos for the F14B
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also just incase yall did not see it

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Because reports on the Aim-54C’s aspect capabilities were getting denied due to sourcing planned capability, I made a new report: Community Bug Reporting System

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They will probably respond with aim-54a is overperforming in beam aspect capability and aim-54c is correctly modeled

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Knowing them I wouldn’t be surprised. Although I’m hopeful and I really tried to make this as clean and tied together as possible.

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