This source also seems to share what we know to be accurate data. Though it seems to be in French?
Iranian sources agree, 15G.
This is all of course in addition to the aforementioned data which provides us a pretty reliable idea of the performance. We have accurate thrust, burn time, propellant mass… even know the thrust curve / shape thanks to the grain pattern being revealed.
From the wording that the NASA document is using seems like they are talking about average thrust rather than peak:
That might be the average peak thrust but my point is still that the boost phase quickly ramps up and then ramps down to the sustainer portion. This means that the thrust is not maximally 19,000 pounds for the full 5 seconds. The fact that they state 4 seconds implies that it is at peak thrust by 0.5s and there is also a 0.5s portion where it ramps back down to the level of the sustainer thrust.
The following ~21 seconds is all sustainer, and as we saw from the grain pattern… should be progressive in nature. Whether 3,000 pounds is the thrust at the start or towards the finish of the sustainer is the question.
Visually, I’m pretty confident the Zoobin is simply an M117 stuffed into the middle of an AGM-65.
Still, for both the Yasser and Zoobin, the M117’s warhead of just over 200 kg TNT equivalent gives it a leg up over other large caliber rockets or HE guided missiles.
Doesn’t Iran typically field AIM-7E-4 with their F-14s?
AIM-7E-4 were essentially modified E-2s to make them compatible with Tomcat’s radar (and from multiple accounts that I saw, Sparrow never truly worked well with Tomcat’s radar … It always had trouble hitting targets on Tomcat: The story of the US Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot that scored an AIM-7 Sparrow ‘soft kill’ on an Iranian F-4 attacking a US Navy P-3 and saved the Orion crew - The Aviation Geek Club)
From what I know, Iran never bought the E-4.
They had the E-2 for use on F-4E, and they also had ordered the F for use on Tomcat. (Which according to a source posted above, a small number of F models have been delivered before the revolution happened)
So during Iran-Iraq war, Iran modified their E-2 models to make them compatible with Tomcat. (But it’s not clear if they were modified in the same exact manner as the E-4)
and they also had ordered the F for use on Tomcat
Did they or did they not use the AIM-7F for the F-14A? If so we can get it in-game even if it was in small numbers like you claim.
You have the R-27R, that is more than sufficient. It exceeds the performance of the AIM-7F.
True but it’s just in case Gaijin decides to remove the R-27R since most people are saying the radar of the IRIAF F-14A couldn’t fire it due to incompatibility.
I very much doubt they care at this point. We have Yak-141 and F-16AJ…
Got pic or ss of modifiers of air events for RB?
I had a hunch that early event vehicle F-14A IRIAF for USA tree not F-14AM, and before integraded R-27R1 & domestic iran Air-to-Air Missile (Fakour-90)
Technically the F-14AM is only one single demo airframe and the rest are just F-14A still last I recall. I don’t know of any other models being upgraded.
In short, the newer ordnance should be compatible on all F-14A’s in IAF service.
the strongest example is probably the Ho-229
R2Y2 is another
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F90 code is in the datamines now and it is just better in almost every way than the AIM-54A/C lmao.
Overal it seems to be the new king of long range, with more speed, more acceleration, and a better loft profile with a shorter burntime (so less visible) at the expense of a minor amount of maneuvrability.
