How?
It can’t use the AIM-7P’s datalink
So in short: It would just be another sparrow
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iirc F-14Ds only had Link 16 for communications and not for weaponry, therefore it’d be unable to DL with the AIM-7P, effectively just making it a AIM-7MH / AIM-7M w/ lofting and IOG.
This would make sense since the NF-14A that tested F-14D Electronics couldn’t fire the AIM-120A in TWS but only STT, meaning it wasn’t capable of datalinking the AIM-120A either which uses Link 16 (hence why it had to dumbfire it).
^Worth mentioning before somebody else does, this wouldn’t qualify the F-14D for AIM-120As in-game either as its a different aircraft that tested it, therefore it wouldn’t come under experimental weaponry for the F-14D. I’m just using it as an example.
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true that but, i feel like its not that big of a deal, i think it just be fun to play them and actually have a somewhat of a reason to grind them, with so many jets(EF-2000, SU-27SM) having double Fox3 racks which literally dont exist but still in the game for gameplay sake, id argue that for just having something “unique” on the supertomcats (AIM-7P) would actually give people(im people) a reason get it, because its literally just a bombercat with a slightly better radar which has rather no use(or that much of an advantage) but you know what that radar could be fun with? AIM-7P!
also theres no other way to experience the AIM-7P as someone who is F2P, its on the Late legacy Hornet but who the hell wanna use sparrows at 14.0? so it could just be a nice little addition IMO
that i can agree with, I don’t know why it wasn’t implemented for high BR Fox-1 carriers (like F-2 ADTW).
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Did Japan even buy the AIM-7P?
The requirement for in-game implementation isn’t whether the country bought it (hence why a lot of foreign Sidewinder users have ahistorical sidewinder variants) but rather if its compatible. The F-2 can use AIM-7M and Link-16 so its compatible.
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Me, because datalinked Fox-1s are nutty asf
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id agree if you were talking about the SU-30SM, but the Hornets? no
you can get 70 Km kill in hornet lol
With hornets it’s absolutely useful lol
not saying they arent but id say Datalink Fox1 on the SU30 are just another breed thats all im gonna say tbf
AIM-7P is almost as good
The slower acceleration actually makes it easier to relock in jousts
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maybe with dynamic BR the legacy late hornet could get it? with a loadout of aim9L and AIM-7P it could be set to 12.7? would be nice
doubt but, i have never used them, but if you say so ill maybe take it for a spin i suppose
Still a Sparrow with IOG, and a historically significant piece of the F-14D’s arsenal