F14 (except IRIAF) BR

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Just wondering if F14s (A and B, not the IRIAF with Fakours) sit at the correct BR.

Because :
AIM54 are now not very effective, due to their generation and the fact most people know how to easily dodge them since a long time.
Short ACM range, with radar lock that can be easily broken, making AIM7 quite uneffective.
Bad AIM9s, only rear aspect for the A, all aspect for the B, but no IRCCM (BTW 2026 and F14B still not able to carry AIM9M ? wth ?).

B carry a huge number of CM and they are very good dogfighters overall.
But in my case, I really struggle to make good games. The fact they both get uptiered 90% of the time doesn’t help also… facing 13.7 / 14.0 jets and fox3s with AIM54s, AIM7M and no IRCCM fox2s, that’s hard life.

Just wondering what other people think.

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I mean if you will compare Tomcats exclusively to aircrafts sitting entire BR higher of course they will come off as bad.

Sure 14A could do with 9L and 14B could do with 9Ms but thats the extent of changes you could expect tbh.

Phoenixes still offer massive range advantage over their contemporaries.

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I don’t really have an opinion about the current BR of the F-14A/B; I just hate having to play them. I don’t like the Phoenix missile meta. I want to play normally, but if I don’t carry Phoenixes, the BR of the F-14A/B feels abnormally high, because their Fox-1s, Fox-2s, and RWR are all too poor for this BR.

I would be happier if I could play the F-14A at 12.3 without Phoenix missiles. It would be fairly weak at 12.3 compared to the Mirage 2000, MiG-21 Bison, and F-18A, but I think it would be more fun that way.

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Not really.

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How so?

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They do not hold a significant range advantage over most fox3s, or the R27ER, while also having the worst accel of any fox3 in the game, and the worst radar of any fox3 carrier in game (that I can recall) to fire them.

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Fair

Aye I suppose thats on me for not specifying.

F-14A with Phoenixes at 12.7 still outrange Sparrows, which lot of 12.7s carry, no?

Oh absolutely, not denying that.

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The only F-16 at 12.7 left is the F-16AJ. The only Hornets at 12.7 carry the 7P which is superior to a phoenix overall. The MiG-29 carries R27ERs. The Mirage CS5 is basically the only jet that you have better radar missiles than and thats because it gets 530Ds.

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Sure it might be better missile overall, I agree, but nonetheless Phoenix has range advantage over it no?

Not talking about how well longer range fits meta or whenever longer range guarantees kill.

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This is still a grand total of 1 actual jet (the hornet) that gets played. And even if you aren’t talking about the viability of “BVR” at this BR, it doesn’t work well in game and can’t be relied on. The F-14’s struggle massively right now.

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Fair enough.

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Actually they can go very far and theorically more far than AIM7 or R27. But they will be easier to defeat.
Remember they were designed to kill heavy/big targets (bombers), not fighters.

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Nobody said otherwise. Please read.

Not true. AIM-54 does not have an appreciable range advantage over R27ER.

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