It's not looking great for the F-14D 'Super Tomcat'

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F16xl (save this for the future)

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That’s a mockup used as a proof of concept sorta like AMBER racks for the F-15. It did not reach the stage where it was a functional prototype.

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minimum 13.3 if it gets six AIM-120As (assuming Gaijin will model it based on F-14D SAC, nothing else), like F-16A ADF. I doubt that having AIM-9M will push it up to 13.7 with just six ARHs, considering the fact that the F-14D still has a dated airframe with an unchanged powerplant from the F-14B.

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That’s for the dual amraam racks witch would be the lau127

Edit:also that doesn’t show it needs an adapter to carry aim120 on the sparrow pylons

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F-14A testbed for the AIM-120.

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F14A-65-GR was the test bed for the f14 in general to have aim120 specifically it was the F14C was supposed to also have aim120 but the f14C never end up coming to be so the f14D was supposed to use aim120 until funding cuts reduced the capability of the apg71 radar(as seen F14 photos testing harm,harpoons,and other CAS equipment)and then after that I think it was another funding cut that also didn’t allow for the F14D software update and CAS capability was chosen over amraam

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The thing is this isnt the first time they have cucked american naval fighters
Remember the F-4S? its the best naval phantom the US can get and it was added as a preimum so US is stuck with the F-4E and F-4J as side grades of each other instead

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To be honest, I’ve said a lot of things, but I’m the one who’s most concerned about the BR issue.

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Gaijin must really like the Air Force.

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I’m pretty sure the F-4J is just better than F-4 in air RB and sim

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just saying it be in a better spot in the at 13.0 than 13.7

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Those are F-14A’s iirc

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without the missile modification the f14d will not have many differences with the f14b, only upgraded engines but nothing new

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To clear up, the F-14D shares the same F110-GE-400 engines as the F-14B.

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the one that fired the AIM-120 was a F14A with D model hardware it had TF30s
it was hack job of a plane

the real F14D service model carrys AIM-7P and AIM-9M vs F14B which has AIM-7M and AIM-9M

the F14D has way supeior avionics on it such as NEW APG-71 radar which is a power house which is only superseded in raw power by the F22A in the 90s

literally will be the pinnacle of the F14 tree if its premium we are cooked that br will be dead than it already is

hopefully its just a mislabled squadron as that seems most likely

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You are talking about a low % of the forum/reddit users, which are already a less than single digit % of the overall community.

There are likely considerably more people who don’t care or are indifferent than there are people who care about this.

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or people on the forums that doesn’t care (me)

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Russian and Chinese have had Fox premiums for awhile now hammy. as well as Sweden

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I mean… It is a F2P game. They have to make money to keep all those free players from having to pay anything. Also, those 1s and 0s bring hours of fun and you being here means you likely do a lot of things that deal with 0s and 1s… It’s also funny that you make it sound like because it’s physical it should cost less…

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Quick reminder for people to not post Export-restricted or Classified documents under any circumstances.

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thanks for playing chaff bro, game might be difficult without people like you o7

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