Thrust in function of pressure altitude
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Because it’s a production vehicles not a prototype vehicle supposedly only prototype vehicles can have access to tested weapons even if you can prove that it does work on the production vehicle
Even tho the kh38mt is in game
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You’d call it ‘F-14A+’ if it’s supposed to be before 1991, or F-14B after. Unless I have the year wrong - prior to 1991 all F-14A’s were updated to have the new GE engines, new RWR, one or two other smaller changes, and were known as ‘F-14A+’. The F-14A in game, the F-14A early, while I’m not sure on the bomb mountings having been a thing at that point, is the model from ‘Top Gun’ with the TF-30 engines that had a number of issues. After 1991 their designation was changed to ‘F-14B’ - the version in game seems like it is the F-14B (Upgrade) - or is a lot closer to it with it’s use of GPS guided munitions and all. Meaning an F-14A+ aka ‘late’ would be possible in the same configuration and loadouts of the A, but with the new engines, and renaming possibly the in game ‘B’ as 'B (upgrade) or Early/Late markers for them as well if you wanted different eras of that time frame.
Don’t just focus on the boost in maneuverability. The AIM-54’s engine has been heavily nerfed, making its actual in-game performance far worse than before. On the test range, it can’t even catch a slow MiG-15 at 15 km — which is honestly hilarious. If it goes live like this, not a single cent of my salary this month will go to it. Even the $100 DCS F-14 bundle looks more appealing — they actually buffed the Phoenix there.
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The upgrade program for the A model was truly complex, and since it wasn’t carried out under a consistent program, there were cases where even Tomcats belonging to the same squadron had different upgrade statuses.
Although it was possible to use Paveway as the early 1990s, it was not compatible with LANTERN, so a buddy lasing from an F/A-18 was required until the 1998 upgrade.
Also, the series of upgrades carried out in 1998 (ALR-67, LANTERN, DFCS, PTID, BOL) were, for some reason, inconsistent, and in VF-154 and VF-211, there were even aircraft that were missing some of the upgrades.
From what I’ve seen, although the RWR and LANTERN systems had been upgraded, some aircraft continued to use the old TID because the PTID had not been upgraded. There were even aircraft lacking DFCS or equipped with the older ALR-45/50 RWR.
So where did they come up with the new thrust numbers anyway?
It really doesn’t make much sense for a long range air to air missile to have such low potential energy overall 🤔
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It got variable thrust depending on altitude
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The same place they discovered the Challenger 2s turret basket: they saw it in a dream
Seems we’re getting one of my favourite camos
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Wonder what that first camo is gonna be. “Anytime baby!” that could be literally anything
Pheonixes having varrying thrust based on altitude is fairly well known.
Its actually a principal all rockets have, due to how geometry on de lavel nozzles require specific atmospheric pressure in order to obtain optimal efficiency. Its just most missiles are generally optimized for a more midrange altitude, so its much less noticed.
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Tell them to check the drag.
It shouldn’t pull 180s turns.
Also, it can reach near 5 mach at very high altitude (launch at 25km alt) , that i don’t think any F-14 had the capability to go that high. The 5 mach we see on data /info on documents and sites are based on Tomcat launches.
That smells drag to me.
It would be a very logical number from a 15-16km launch at speed mach 2. Not from 25km and mach 2,4.
Assuming the engine is correct, that’s all drag.
God I hope 🙏 they stay like this on live 🤣
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I don’t see how increasing drag to a reasonable degree would stop the Phoenix from bruteforcing its way through the sky for 27 seconds. It’s doing what it’s designed to do.
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Still super easy to dodge for anything around transonic but yeah it would be silly fun to have Phoenixes like that
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These types of clips are fun and all but a single BOL chaff or tighter manuvering would have made the missile overshoot, and at that point the burn phase is already more than halfway done.
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The 54 like this will be so fun in Nuke Thunder with full matches 👹 target’s of opportunity a plenty!
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Imagine a nuking bomber closing in on your main base just laughing off all radar missiles that are fired at it until they see a single “F14” ping on their RWR before a Aim-54C ECCM guided in by the APG-71 snipes them from spawn.
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nuke capable bombers should not killable by long range ECCM AAM.
These beasts are huge so there should be enough room for a huge and really good ECM system.
I can’t imagine how the B 52 could be in service until today otherwise.
And they shouldn’t even face anything above 13.0 imo.
11.0 jets can intercept these bad boys rather easily already, even without AAM