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The tomcats biggest enemy is the compression tbh. If its with its historical peers it will dominate but rightfully putting it higher means its going to eat spaamraams from platforms which are beyond anything Grumman could have dreamed of when developing the F14. better missiles don’t help that
Great plane however not when there’s a gripen C or EF2K in missile jousting range
Mfs when the Mk83 with a rocket attached kills them when it explodes above them:
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Where the tomcat ate which pushed it higher into the 13.0 range was the fact of it being everyone’s entry into experienceing ARH missiles. It was essentially seal clubbing top that on with it being the first ARH in game and gaijin still somewhat experimenting with ARH missiles it built up an incredible K/D. It maintained that K/D via what I said with it being everyone’s introduction to ARH missiles. The more people learn about the threat and how to defeat it. The less effect it had.
Still doesn’t downplay the airframes capability. But at 13.0 with all the spaamrams, having one of the larger radarcross sections, and having an 9L. It has pains.
The difference is that the F-14B is effectively missing half of its power. There’s a reason Grumman calls it the F-14/Aim-54 Weapon System. They’re a team. They were built off each other. With the Aim-54 being trash, its historical peers outperform it, so naturally, its future foes vastly outperform it.
I was spading the Harrier FA2 during the free tomcat event incident so I still hate seeing those planes because they made fun flying virtually impossible. They kinda needed to be put up so high that they weren’t meta anymore for the sake of the game, it was just too much for months
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That came down to the F-90. Which was being placed at the same tier as the F-14A.
So the problem wasn’t the Tomcats, but people not knowing how to counter it after 3 years? That seems about right.
Ehh part of it. The tomcat IRAF was under tiered off the bat. Gaijin saw 14A and was linke put same br as 14A.
even before people got their mitts on the farkour it was a big issue as half of both teams were tomcats. I had multiple games where I was the only non F14 player
So you died of spam
At the start, the Fakour wasn’t a good missile and the Sedjiil was even worse. It was truly a sidegrade at its introduction. I think you mean after the Fakour was buffed to 20G.
That 20G buff came early in the F90s life.
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For about 2 months that was all that was happening. the sheer volume of aim 54s meant that multipathing didn’t keep you safe as there was another 4 missiles screaming down at you at any one time.
Yeah, but you said
What would you think of giving tomcat GEN-X decoys?
Fair point. But with the buff they shouldn’t have kept the 2 aircraft at the same BR as long as they did.
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WT is not ready for Decoy systems.
I think it would be a cool thing for the first couple of days/weeks but would in no way fix the integral (but artificial) problems of the F-14. Plus, everyone and their mother would be screaming for it on other jets, and at that point we just get more BS in the game.
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It’s like Britecloud but older. Just better chaff really