Grumman F-14D Super Tomcat - End of a Legendary Era

Not operationally. But if someone hooked up an AMRAAM onto an F-14D, it would work.

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Eh. Who cares about operational. We have the 2S38 in the game and the KH-38MT

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Real.

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Ready for this with AIM-7P’s, AIM-54C’s, and AIM-9M’s. AIM-120’s would be pretty trippy with it, maybe a test-bed F-14D version could come with them instead? Either way +1

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It could be nice to have the 2 AIM-54C variants the Mk60 and Mk47 54C

The Mk60 motors are apparently identical in both missiles, if I understand correctly they are a “medium” smoke motor.
The Mk47 comes in Mod.0 on the A, and Mod.1 on the C, apparently with very similar performance but being very smoky on the A and almost entirely smokeless on the C.

To give more of a variety on playstyle, if you want to Phoenix but have different abilities or 120’s for a more general use

Additional Note: F-14B uses the Mk47 and Mk60, whilst the one we have is Mk47 which is very smoky

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I would rather they give the AIM-54C(ECCM/SEALED) instead of the AIM-54C to the F-14D.

Historically, the F-14D + AIM-54C (ECCM/SEALED) have been allowed this loadout, which was not possible with the A and B models due to coolant issues.
f-14-3b

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I agree, but just a bit to add on. It was the Aim-54C+ ECCM/Sealed that allowed the loadout. And any F-14 could use that loadout with the specific version of the Aim-54C. Now if the A or B models actually did, I don’t entirely know. Only the F-14B (U) and F-14D did due to them being the newest variants.

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AIM-54C (ECCM/SEALED) can be installed on all Tomcat models given the time of production, but coolant is still needed on the A and B models.

Afaik, F-14B(U) never gets LAU-132 launcher because the upgrade program was primarily limited to JDAM, GPU, Sparrowhawk HUD, and PTID, and didn’t include any retrofits related to AIM-54.

In any case, it was very rare to mount an AIM-54 on anything other than Station 3/6 because of the massive drag.

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Man I hope the f14D comes to game in next update or the one after that

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