The Tomcat would have been a very capable fighter plane even without the AIM-54 in WT.
It would have been a better balancing approach as well.
Plus the Tomcat didn’t carry Phoenixes when it was first produced.
Sure, but AIM-54 is critical to the F-14 role
Also, wasn’t AIM-54 a core part of F-14? They were designed to work together for the start
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The F-14s role isn’t even part of WT.
There is no mode in which you can perform that role.
Well in the weird air mode with the bunch of bomber bots, but that’s about it.
Fleet air defence can technically be done if there is a carrier on the map
They banned top/high tier planes from that mode
Or yk if the carrier would stay with the fleet… (such a stupid design)
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Oh I haven’t played it in forever I didn’t even know that.
There’s certainly a few options Gaijin could go for, stuff like the ACH-47A or something like the MV-22B would be cool to see. (V-22 is technically a medium lift helicopter but close enough)
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This will end up like the lootboxes and only implemented for the countries in which this is required.
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Fleet defence
The fleet in question: A single carrier
There also currently is no top tier ARB map with carriers, that currently is only a thing in Sim and there you don’t have to worry about people attacking your fleet because it literally isn’t worth trying to attack ships.
For the kinds of encounters you have in WT giving the F-14 only Sparrows and Sidewinders would have been completely fine.
Actually I just remembered Israel did make their CH53s a launch platform for the nimrod missile. So we could get an armed CH53 just not for the US.
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The “fleets” on most maps, if you can even call them that, usually are comprised of a carrier that does laps without any escorts way too close to the actual battlefield, some random ships going along a patrol path, some ships anchored in bay areas and maybe some cargo ships without any escorts.
A lot of the time there is no real fleet to speak of, with the carrier doing its laps at some random spot and a couple of anchored ships at the bays and in ARB only the lower tier maps feature ships for whatever reason.
They definitely could put carriers and ships on maps like Golan Heights, Southeastern City (or whatever that one is called) and Spain, but they just don’t. Similarly they could include a lot of the maps that feature ships and carriers in top tier, but they also don’t do that.
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If Gaijin would add proper gunners for helicopters we could still get on for the US, just armed with some .50 cals. Would be effectively useless but would still be cool to see.
The rocket on steroids with the turn radius of a small country?
Its gameplay would basically be: fly across the whole map in less than a minute, destroy some fighters on its way, fail to turn around, get kicked for crossing the border of the map
Well, for some reason people think that it and the MiG-25/31 would make for good additions to WT
At least the foxbat and foxhound do turn… The turn radius of a yf12 is LITERALLY 150 km
It is, without any exageration, completely unusable in a game like warthunder
at mach 3.2 maybe, if they step it down a bit i think it could be managable, i heard A-12 series was alright to fly or something
osprey cool, shame they never put any weapons on a Mi-26 (afaik)
Wdym? The aircraft was specifically made for the AIM-54 it was loading AIM-54s.
Also on your point of the AIM-54. That is what is kinda considered a requirement for an aircraft to be a 4th gen.