It should, but there is a large, vocal contingent of players who are vehemently against any aircraft that isn’t from their favorite tree getting “what if” weapons.
Plus, the devs are already inconsistent with weaponry. F-14A and B should have better IR missiles (that are already in game), but they don’t. Yet things such as SRAAM arm a few aircraft in game, and aircraft that were never armed also have weapons given to them in game.
" Look down shoot down " mode and BVR better AN/AWG-9
Similar to AIM-54C characteristic but chaff resistant better
AIM-7P Blk I or Blk II. I’m not sure
Maybe AIM-9M-8
AIM-9M-8 won’t be specifically added I think.
AIM-7P blk2 has datalink so would be the only useful variation to add imo
AIM-54C is currently underperforming, the ECCM+ improves guidance against low alt and low RCS targets iirc
Forget not the F-14s failing to get the VTAS HMD even though they were capable of using them and tested with them.
Will probably be an AWG-9 with a slightly better speed gate.
Will be a copy paste of the existing AIM-54C.
Will be a AIM-7M but can actually re-acquire the target.
While it should have a seeker equivalent to the FIM-92C, I highly doubt it will be added / anything more than the existing 9M due to gaijin’s balancing choices.
maybe better side-aspect launches too
I’m just amazed that Gajin thinks the F-14B and F-15A are equal. A FM that blows the Tomcat, a better radar (all-aspect), can carry 4 aim-9M and has 240 standard size CMs in a usable Nato pattern . People often point out the number of flares the F-14B can carry but having 320 or 640 bol pod size CMs that finish burning in like 0.5s and only launch in a garbage rear pattern doesn’t mean much. I fly the av8b+ at 13.0 with 180 CMs and rarely run out.
The F-14B is the only aircraft in the game that strictly uses the BOL pods (unlike the Gripen) until they are depleted, then it switches to the internal dispenser. The sea harrier uses the internal ones first I think. I started to remove the pods so I can use the 60x standard right away. Much better imo.
Gaijin nerfed them because of the Gripen and the F-14B happened to be a collateral damage.
I’m sure they will give aim-9M to the F-14B eventually after seeing the horrible stats but the inertia of Gaijin is annoying. Always reactive, never pro-active.
F-14A is a dead aircraft, constantly fighting 13.3.-13.7 with proper fox-3 and IRCCM missiles. The IRIAF at least has the fakour to get some lucky hits early game.
The F-14B is now the only* 13.0+ plane without IRCCM Fox Twos :(
*The J-8F at least gets stock Pl-12s
The truth is that there needs to be at least 15.0 BR, there is not enough decompression at all. While I agree F-14B is not equal to F-15A, it is indeed worse in a lot of ways, but I do think that in a downtier the F-14s were a bit too OP, especially the IRIAF.
There is the “Extended Chaff Adapter” that can be mounted onto the LAU-93 tunnel station adapter in place of the AIM-54. That could provide standard caliber countermeasure capability.
But that isn’t modeled in game as an option, it probably couldn’t be equipt with flares though, it would still free up the ALE-39A for Flare carriage so wouldn’t be entirely useless.
On the topic of the CMs dispensers for the F-14
I recently went to a museum and saw the empty slots for the ALE-39s
Is it B/D model?
Originally an A, but rebuilt into a D.
I’m concerned from dev server gaijin forget AIM-9M replace AIM-9L in tier III modification & weapon presets on F-14B 😔
Did they mess with the F-14 radar? im noticing a huge change since last I played, I can’t maintain lock of any target not flying towards me and Fakour 90 and AIM-54A and C kills are way down.
