It has AIM-9Ps which are at least as capable as Hs, I’d say better.
It can also carry 6 SARH
Fakours are far superior to Phoenixes. Sure, their max overload is slightly lower, but 54s can’t really pull 17g anyways under most conditions due to their low acceleration. The Fakour has 4x the acceleration of the AIM-54A and the highest dV of any AAM (except maybe after the Sedjil, they’re very close). Like check out any of the videos in this thread and you can see the massive difference, where a “simple maneuver” simply doesn’t work within around 30km.
Really the skill issue is almost always on the F-14’s part. Too many people launch their Phoenixes at 60+km, where of course they can be evaded. A Phoenix launched within a reasonable range of 25-30km max is just as deadly as any SARH missile. But at a range where nothing else can compete, with FnF, and only in a single tech tree.
Huh why? 9Hs are longer range, and can pull right off the rail faster. The only thing the 9J is better at is max G load and initial acceleration.
I never said the F90s were inferior to the Phoenix. I said it was really good at long range but that its simple to evade (referring to close range performance). Its still easier to dodge than a Phoenix at close range just because it doesn’t have the Phoenix’s AoA paired with the massive acceleration and you get a massive turning circle.
Does smin not like British aircraft?
Ive played a match where Smin was on my team. I think he was in a mig29 I cant remember as he was one of the first out, top tier sucks but at least I got to say hi to him in chat
Smin seems cool, im surprised to have seen any of the mods in game.
man it would be so funny if the EAP got added as a top tier premium and its just unarmed. no radar, no gun, no AAMs, absolutely nothing. Troll the wallet warrior noobs while shutting up annoying “I want this vehicle” types who don’t know a thing about the vehicle they claim to want
I mean it isn’t useless I’ll give you that but you can’t take it as gospel.
For instance, my MiG-21PFM has a Winrate of about… 41/42%. Does that mean it is a bad aircraft? Hell no. What could it mean? Perhaps I’m just very bad with it (I don’t like the gun for instance, I don’t generally lead it enough). Perhaps it’s because I played it on release when it was 10.0, and now it’s 9.3. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact I usually ended up in 5v1s because when I played it, I played it on release. When everyone playing it was a whole lot of prop players who don’t know how jets are played.
Or maybe it could be just that I have a vehicle with 10 games in and the Win Rate is scuffed.
In the same way you claim K/D is useless, K/D is not useless. However, you have to think about why that is. For instance, I had a 9/1 K/D on the Spitfire Mark 14? Does that sound absurd? If you think not, why?
It could be that I airfield camp and J out if I don’t think its winnable. It could also be that I got incredibly lucky on my first game, and bagged 9 kills.
K/D and WR are two sides of the same coin. They both can be used to infer stuff, and aren’t completely useless, but they aren’t a good foolproof indicator to be used no matter what.
We were asking for it to be our 12.0 equivalent last year. Something to counter the F-16 and Mig-29. It had radar, RWR, CMs and I think even the gun. Just never actually fired any weapons, but that is a small problem if they can make up an entire aircraft to give Japan for example
I don’t want AIM-9L or AIM-9M for any F-14s. People need to stop making these suggestions.
I can play the same game. Give the Mig-29 R-73 and move it to 13.0. Give the Mig-23MLD R-73 as well and move it to 12.3.
It didn’t have them but had ‘provisions for’ them in my argument which in my view was on the same lines as Yak-141, but we got gripen so it’s no longer a concern, though if the Russians get Su-47 and Mig 1.44, I will be asking for it again.
I have a 46% winrate in the centurion mk2 even though its the strongest tank I have.
My winrate in the harrier GR7 is truly dire so it can bo so so so much worse, but that’s from BR compression and not having the best weapons it actually had access to in service. Its still a really great plane and enjoyable to fly.
Bask in the disaster that is my winrate and K/D in the GR7. I hope you don’t feel so bad about winrates ever again
Nah I feel nothing wrong with the one I have on the PFM.
To be honest, I honestly would gloss over WR, since there’s a whole multitude of reasons why it can be.
Personally I reference K/D more myself, but that’s more because I don’t tend to kill AI targets. Of course that’s not hard and fast, and it’s not a great metric to go by in Air (Tanks you’re mostly okay, since AI don’t tend to crop up)
And failing all that - it is only a game, what does it matter haha
I mean later down the line when the Russians need something to compete with performance accurate EFT, F-15C, Gripen E, J-10C, Rafale F.4, Late Israeli F-15’s.
When they get them then I will be asking, what use is EFT if you got nothing to grind it with.