You don’t need integration. Aim-9Xs are backward compatible with planes that support the Aim-9M. The Aim-9X was in service at the time of the F-14D.
I think you’re misunderstanding. It’s not a derivative of the APG-70. It’s an evolution of the AWG-9. It shares the most commonality with the -70, but it’s not a variant.
You take the brains(computers) of the APG-70, the antenna of the APG-70(scaled up) and the digitization of the APG-70 then pair it to the power supply used by the AWG-9. yes, it’s definitely not a derivative. It definitely shares more in common with an analog radar…
Still no source. And no I don’t know everything about radars witch is why I want you give something of a source so I can see weather this facts from wiki or something more solid
EFT has a crappy radar, the Rafale is great overall and the SU30 is, both the EFT and Rafale both have the advantage of amazing missiles (which maybe the F14D will get hopefully); while also adding that the SU30 has now great missiles.
The F14 airframe is still also competitive in dogfights as I can speak from experience, managing to outmaneuver small fighters like the F16, to the newly added SU30 and it’s TVC
Let’s see if and when it gets added and we’ll see how it is only then
I personally don’t understand why they won’t put the effort into modelling the CAPTOR-M, maybe because an EFT is in the British tree and therefore it musn’t be given proper attention
So… DCS gamer filed a FOIA request a few years ago for the F-14D IRST related documents.
Seems Navy provided documents and compiled information about them… The work was done, but at the last moment a federal law prohibiting the release of unclassified aerospace material went into effect and the request was denied.
The documents are unclassified, but because of this law, the Pentagon does not allow the Navy to release the documents.