Kind of like it never worked after being modified…
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The AWG9 the Iranian Tomcats had was incapable of data linking with the R27 Gaijin gave it, thus it wouldnt be able to guide in like a sparrow could.
my bad, read a bit more and turns out the experiments were unsuccessful, but it was mounted at tested I guess
People are complaining because France, a country that never operated f-16s, now have 5
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Was the R-73 compatible? I know they tested that too but I can’t find anything on whether it worked or not. I assume it could because it doesn’t need the radar for that.
If it worked, I think they should replace the R-27 with the R-73. The one thing the Iranian F-14 sucks the most at is the fox 2 department because it only has Aim-9P’s at 13.3.
don’t ask me ask them
same
i think the irl f14am works with r73 but not in war thunder
No picture and no documents.
as far as i know it was maybe planned but i have yet to see a photo of one with one but i think it could mount R60S which people often confuse the R60 and R73 as they look kinda similar at a distance
Another P2W premium I guess xD
Its 80$ of hard-earned money btw.
So F-14D radar do have the ability to link with AIM-120 guilding mechanism?
No they didn’t update the apg 71 radar to use amraams or have the budget put it into to service for the f14d the aim54c+ now known as ECCM/Sealed used a component from the AMRAAM project. is that what your asking?
Then they cut the R&D costs of AIM-54 C+ by putting the AIM-120 transmitter into it.
AIM-54C+ High Power Phoenix
Improved variant developed by Hughes for F-14D. Contains internal heaters, which eliminates need for temperature conditioning liquid, high-power Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) transmitter adapted from the AIM-120 AMRAAM, and low-sidelobe antenna. Latest version of RPM substitutes 6 ultra-high-speed computer chips for 45 of earlier, less-capable chips. Full-scale development began in August 1987. First test flight of fully upgraded missile on 14 August 1990 scored a direct hit on a QF-4 drone.(https://www.navair.navy.mil/node/12701)
Ik that source if you look up I sent the same source
So they literally have everything, just not put them up together.
Well besides the aim120 that was never introduced on the f-14d only on a heavily modified version of the f-14a I’m not too sure about the aim7p there was a training manual that. they did train with the aim7p’s but no armament manuals or factory manuals available to backup that claim for the f-14d because the rest of the stuff is classified so we truly don’t know what it had on that aircraft. the only things we know it had. Is the aim 54c+ and aim9m. Is that what you’re asking?
The point is AIM-54 C+ and AIM-120 have the same transmitter. APG-71 and AIM-120 had no hardware barrier in communication.
Most cost of the cancelled upgrade program is likely about replacing the AWG-9 of F-14A(636-18) and F-14B(38) to APG-71, instead of F-14D (37) and F-14D(R) (+18).
Which was exactly the case of the “Bombcat” program in 1995. The program was mostly about integrating LANTIRN pod into F-14A and F-14B.
If others can find that AIM-120 and AIM-54 C+ are using the same software or APG-71 is compatible with AIM-120. It is a dead on prove of compatibility between APG-71 and AIM-120. As there are so many people has already provided tons of proof that F-14D is planned to have AIM-120 already. I think people just need to dig harder to find a document explicitly stated that APG-71 was compatible with AIM-120.