F-14A (IRIAF) is the least balanced aircraft in the game

Insane how M2K has lower BR from F14A

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G-load doesn’t mean anything in this case, they are different velocities.
AIM-54 is more maneuverable, F-90 is faster. That’s the difference.
It’s why you can defeat the F-90 with maneuvering easier than the AIM-54.
F-14A tech tree is over-BR’d as it’s a higher BR than the slightly superior EJ Kai.

This includes FGR2 and F-4J… you know that right… the fact they’re 0.7 BRs lower despite the only notable differences being airframe performance and in the case of FGR2 long-range radar missile performance is hilarious.
Be careful what your posts claim.

12.3 - 13.0 is decompressed for the F-14s. It’s just F-14A tech tree got incorrectly moved up cause Gaijin thought it was as threatening.

Iranian F-14 is the most boring plane in the game (exept bombers). 2-3 minutes to range, launch fakours and wait for the results. sometimes zero kill, sometimes 3, but most of the times a kill message comes after you are dead because AMRAAMs or counter Fakours. RWR does nothing. But average match is 1200 mission score. I grinded the IAR event with them effortless.
Very boring but good grinder

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Launch from long range (60-80KM) - immediately put your air brake and glide until your F90 go pitbull and then turn around speed off and drop alt. You’ll find that you’re gone before their missiles even reach you. Dying to other long-range missiles is not the issue in F-14A (IRIAF), it’s trying to dogfight with your AIM-9P and R-27R, while facing Magic 2s, PL-12, and others. But yeah, it is quite effortless gameplay if you just spam some F90 and immediately hit the airfield for some more F90 spam. Good for event grinding.

As a mig-23 player, I give up bombing or fighting and immediately go to camp the enemy’s forward airfield if I’m in a BR with F-14 iriaf on the enemy side (11.7-12.7). Really a crazy op vehicle.

It doesn’t come even close to the balancing marvel of Brezhnieviak-Pissaev also known as BI, rocket plane turning tighter than Zero, that can cruise at 750km/h for an hour with its fuel load, if needed outclimbs 8.3 jets and somehow sits at 6.7 where it’s basically unkillable.

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Dear god

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because fk90 are fast. you don’t have much time to notch the fk90. They a basically an R-27EA with much larger warhead (still, players dying from the first wave of ARH are really not so smart)

or there is just 1 or 2% packetloss or Chinese teammates on EU server that renders chaff completely ineffective as these heavily depend on the server being stable. Not everyone is dumb, and the game is far from reliable and fine.

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The F-16A and Mig-29 are superior to F-14A IRIAF in every way, it’s no where close to OP.

Also R-27EA would be 50% more maneuverable, and R-27Rs are more maneuverable.

Yeah but I mean like cmon, they turn like shit and light your rwr up. I quick cold and chaff or notch chaff and switch direction and it’s off you.

That should start hurting to talk so much bs.
F16A and mig 29 are not superior to IRIAF in every way.
IRIAF has best long range missiles on 12.7, and that cant be denied. Fakours are even faster vs 120’s. Yes, they dont manouver so good, but those things trust in raw power.
And IRIAF is better on gunrange dogfight vs mig 29.
F16 has a lot better airframe and IR missiles.
Both has better RWR and mig 29 a lot better radar.

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I have the plane i haven’t touched it yet and only met it as opponent… Least balanced planes… yes…
F-14 IRIAF (or any of them) isn’t even in the top 10.
Let’s start with A-10/Su-25s that people still call the excuse “it’s slow” … meanwhile they could just not use it in ARB, it’s CAS planes, they don’t have to be good in dogfights. You shouldn’t even be able to think getting them into dogfights intentionally. But yeah, let’s let them meet planes with no CMs even…while they got all aspects!!
MiG-23M/MF … why that crap again meets planes without CMs? Because IT HAS TO BE GOOD - no it doesn’t. Think that MiG-27s are 11.3.
Yak 38s… the plane is trash… ok… ! it was built to be trash. Ok let’s make it face Korean era jets with 4x R-60s and me 163 …because superior technology…
AV-8B+… another “it’s slow” … But has AMRAAM and AIM-9M. Meanwhile some of the opponents don’t even have SARH to begin with…
Both FRS.1 AIM-9L meets opponents without CMs… guess what… they are slow…
GR.3/AV-8C…AIM-9G vs Korean jets…they have the same speed they are equal. Korean jets are more agile but eating 9G from the top and 5km away… equals.
Any 13,7-14.0 …they even meet jets without any ARH .
Ex. a F-15A will have harder time meeting a Rafale , than any 11.7 meeting a Tomcat…any Tomcat.
And all these are from the top of my head… not going too deep.
The problem is we need decompression in general… i can agree, but F-14 IRIAF (or any) is one of the least problems.
It is annoying , i face it ALL the time in my F.1C . have died to Fakour/AIM-54 only once because i was distracted by my dog.
Not balanced… eh…no…not really.
If any it was an exceptional plane in RL. I must see it and have problem. Unlike any other crap i mentioned that don’t even make sense…

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How you writing all of that and not using a single comma? My eyes are bleeding.

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Who has time for commas…

It takes three times as long to type an ellipsis than it does a comma and it would be more grammatically correct to boot.

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Understandable, but many times i don’t want to use comma. More like giving tone to what i’m saying. In some parts i’m being ironic. Dots have purpose.

Name checks out with that statement too

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Wait until bro hears about the BI.

Are you seriously bombing in a MiG-23…
Deserved.