Stat card is usseless but the previous engine came very close to Mach 4, now I’m not sure what might happen given the other changes that have been made
Yep
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Doesnt even matter btw, the lost weight negates it. Also you must be terrible if you cant dodge a flying telephone pole. Also its slightly worse in manuevering than the sparrow now which is crazy, look for yourself on the dev server, its crazy how well it turns now. Also stop blatantly lying about stuff, it feels like you’re trying to push an agenda
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because you are not looking at a 14D
that is a F-14A+, look at the engines
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A*
A+ is F-14B designation from 87 to 91 you know
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F-14ABCDOM*+(U)
now there has to be the correct designation in there somewhere
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He lies so bad the devs muted him for several days once last week already 😂
You can always report the lies.
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forgot C and ADCOM
fixed
nah you can just pic and chose from the letters that are already in there
Now what would we call the F-14A with Bombcat upgrade? “F-14B-” maybe? F-14A(R)?
Where amraam on f14a then
the F-14A ingame is not the F-14A*
and not compatible with it
Bruh, I didn’t realise the “*” was the designation, not a correction lol.
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imo F-14A(1998) is best because those cats didn’t have specific names like F-14BU and F-14DR
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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