Not sure if no Fakour for the wing pylons is intended or WIP.
Because if anything, there’s no proof that the underbelly pylons can carry the Fakour (though one would assume given that it’s basically the same size and shape as AIM-54, and the ability to carry it on the underbelly pylons would basically be the main point of using the AIM-54 body instead of the MIM-23B Hawk body).
All the Fakour-90 (and AD-40A export variant/offering) test launch videos that exist have them mounted on the wing pylons.
Will Iran’s domestically improved aim 9 air-to-air missile “Fatter” be sent to Iran’s F14?
According to the information, the Fatter air-to-air missile has the ability to lock targets in all directions.
The model was datamined but I think Gaijin is trying to keep the iranian F-14 on par with the american A.
They’ll probably keep it as an option in case they need to rebalance it at an higher br.
Easily dodgable missile = BUSTED. I’ve died maybe three times to a Fakour 90 in my 50 or so games so far. In the Iranian tomcat that is, with its useless RWR. If it goes up they’ll have to buff the Fakour 90 overload and AoA, plus give it a functioning RwR. I’ve died more to the R-27R than anything else so far.
The reason I say it’s busted is because it has acceleration like an ER while having the highest target impact speed and lowest time to target of any ARH missile. Unlike the AIM-54s the F-90 is also somewhat usable under 15km because it actually has the speed to hit targets.
I would be happy for it to be upgraded though, and it could also carry R-73s.
Still a 15G missile at the end. It kinda hard counters the Aim-54 and is usable under 15km like you said unlike the phoenix but that’s it. All the other close to mid range options for the IRIAF F-14 are mediocre, the fakour has to compensate. If they decide to nerf the Fakour and/or remove the R-27R because of a player bug report they’ll have to give either the R-73 or maybe the domestic “Fatter” which was found in the cdk.
What makes the R-73 so good is when it’s coupled with the HMD so I don’t think it will be that OP with the F-14A especially if limited to 2, 1 on each wingtip.
If they decide to nerf the Fakour and/or remove the R-27R
As long as we have the F-16AJ in-game I doubt they’d remove the R-27R and especially when the integration failing is public information they would’ve had before adding it in-game (they gave it to the IRIAF F-14A whilst acknowledging this).
Prove me otherwise, you’re the biggest US glazer in human history going into any Russian or Chinese thread to discredit their inventions and creations yet you praise the US as if it’s some holy figure.
It’s because they limited the fin deflection angle to 7.83 deg.
According to these pictures the fin deflection angle is around 25-30 deg, possibly higher.
And while, yes these pictures are at 0 air speed:
1- The Hawk missile, originally being a surface to air missile, would obviously be designed to be able to hit its 15G overload at lower speeds. So it would obviously have a high fin deflection angle, and not 7.83 deg which is virtually, by far, the lowest of any air to air or surface to air missile in the game.
2- The fins are symmetric rectangular with a center pivot, so the force required to actuate them and deflect them to the same angle, shouldn’t be much higher at higher air speeds (that Sedjil is flying at, compared to Hawk, or in general for a flying missile compared to a stationary one).
