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

I agree! Also, this is the only F-14 that has been all 5 US variants! Not just the B (or really, the C)

She’s been:

  1. YF-14A
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    The story of F-14A, Aircraft No. 3, BuNo. 157982 | Tales | F-14 Tomcat
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  3. F-14B
  4. F-14C

This is actually the airframe the mounted the F401s as you can see, from there it went to GE-F110s to test D standards
5. F-14D Super Tomcat

Now on the US Intrepid. The tester for F-14D avionics and aerodynamics. Most notedly testing the HARM and JDAM release stability.

It’s definitely the most iconic F-14 test livery just for that asymmetrical wing picture.

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You mentioned the F14C, what was it? I always thought they just skipped the letter but now it seems more for testing D upgrades

F-14C was basically supposed to be the F-14D but with F401 engines instead of F110s. It would gain low speed performance but heavily sacrifice high speed performance, so luckily it wasn’t implemented as it was in testing. It also might’ve gotten a special HMD from what I’ve seen, before JHMCS.

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Like a later JTAS (or whatever the F4J/S used) for use with the USN’s high manoeuvrability missile?

VTAS

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When they add this tomcat in people are gonna cry because its the last one.

i used to be against adding aim-120s to this thing, but atp it really needs it. would be either best 13.3 or mediocre 13.7 with amraams. I think 13.7 is fair for game balance, but they might add it at 13.3.
it’s just doa at 13.3 with only 54c+

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F4F ice is 13.0 and mig 29 SMT is 13.3 will most likely be 13.3

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it’s better than any 13.3 though with amraams

it should only be a bit better than F16ADF with aim120s as its heavier than the B model

yeah but it gets 9ms as well though. none of the 13.3 f-16s other than the 16d get both fox 3s and irccm missiles.
(speaking of, 16d should really be moved up)

it wont be blatantly op as most 13.0s have 9Ms already it will be a good counter to the OP 13.0 SU33

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to be fair it would still just be a worse f-16d.
So 13.3 might still be fair

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yeah i agree as its a worse F15C due to being heavier and it doesnt have HMD

If it’s radar is better than the strike eagles (it should be) 13.7 w/ amraams is fair

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it should be the same as strike eagle but with just more range. so for war thunder it should be the exact same in terms of performance (like notching and stuff like that) and scan angles.

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That’s still fine, hopefully they do all the IRST and TCS stuff well since it sounds really cool and can come onto some future export strike eagles in the Tiger Eyes IRST

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yeah, imagine if they add the ability to guide radar missiles using irst.
Would make the sparrow basically unnotchable (the irst steers the cw antenna, so you would still get a wanning, but as long as the irst can stay on the target it will guide in)

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How much harder is it to defeat the CW antenna?

no the cw antenna itself is just following the irst. you would have to defeat the irst itself

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