Whoever made those didn’t really try to hide them lol.
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What is this about
F14D being a pretty DOA addition i think
But it wont be
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it’s not gonna be that good mate tbh.
With AIM-9M and reliable mid range Phoenixes its gonna be fine.
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at what BR is it 13.3? the same BR the Su30MKK and such are floating around
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13.0 i think but realistically itll play 13.3 all the time. So itll just be sacrificed on the prem SU30 altar like all the high tier air premiums.
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I mean it’s likely going to get hammered, there are so many carriers of ARHs in tbos areas
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As to why the C variant isn’t on all F-14’s, F-14A is supposed to literally be the earliest iteration of the aircraft before they started putting GE engines on some of them. Also, that is one of their ‘balance’ things to have one at a lower BR than the other. That one makes sense - unlike the F-111A with AIM-9B’s while the F-105 has AIM-9E’s.
Technically speaking - yes, 65-GR (The F-14A that fired the test AMRAAM’s) has a greater reason in that it did fire the missile - albeit it fired test versions prior to the A model entering service. So you’d have to just say it has the AIM-120A.
That said - the AIM-120 was specifically designed to take the slot AIM-7’s did on aircraft, even things like the F-4 Phantoms that were still around initially although by the time they were ready only German F-4’s were still operating and carried them. Whatever aircraft it was on just needed the appropriate radar basically, and on the provisions list for armaments of the F-14D in available documents does list AMRAAM’s, namely the A model, in which all the plane needed was the software patch that was funded, and then the money moved elsewhere.
So you have an F-14A that may have never actually fired a production missile, maybe something close to it, but did fire ones in testing, and a combat ready model that was all setup and primed to carry production AMRAAM’s once it got a patch, and then they changed their minds putting the patch in. And that’s before you get in to some of the other mess - like the photo of the F-14 with the dual AMRAAM rack on the wing at which point I don’t know if anyone has confirmed what model of F-14 that is, an A - possibly 65-GR, or a D model showing off 'yeah, we can put at least an extra couple AMRAAM’s on them.
Me personally, at this point, with the way Gaijin’s standards are, even staying in the US tree with the F-15C GE being in the tree not even discussing the Russian tech tree stuff - both are honestly about equal in reason to exist in game. Right now, I know in terms of the Arcade BR’s the line with the F-14 goes 12.3 (F/A-18A/F-14A), 12.7 (F-14B), 14 (F/A-18C late), 14.3 (F/A-18E), depending on how much 9M’s and any changes to the 54C go in the next patch may change how that looks - but as is, that line lacks 13.0, 13.3, and 13.7. F-14A-65-GR with 6x AIM-120A’s, as it is a one off plane and all, makes sense as a squadron vehicle at 13.0 - carrying 6x AMRAAM’s, but having far worse IR and SARH than the F-14B, maybe only on par with the current in-game F-14A (Early). Which there are a number of planes in 13.0 with ARH including the MiG-29 in Japan’s tree. The improvements to an F-14D with them, could easily be 13.3 material to square against the Su-30 premiums, and a later variant, with dual racks and anything from 120A through C-series AIM-120’s would fit at 13.7, both of those F-14D’s in the tech tree. Which - would be wholly consistent with Gaijin’s tendency to put things that were planned or the like but maybe not followed through all the way on - like the F-15C GE, as tech tree planes, and filling gaps where planes currently don’t exist - for the F-15 line the GE acts as a 14.3 cap, where as the F-14D’s with AMRAAM’s fill the gap between 12.7 and 14.0 in that line.
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About this one , i see no glove vane at all (not even patched) and from the little i gathered reading around that was a 14D , with mock ups , for the Super Tomcat 21 proposal for upgrade that didn’t happened ever. Nor any prototype or anything.
That was just to showcase that the platform can carry more AMRAAMs if upgraded, in a ST21 project.
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guys I have no complaints just buy this thing, let gaijin get some paycheck so we can have better realistic rework, maybe combined modes enduring confrontation?
Reworked nuke thunder
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Also if you’re generous and is just resourceful af and want to buy multiple F-14Ds to support Gaijin, consider gifting one to me ahahaha
coughs in numbers 171318547 coughs coughs
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put another copy paste 1 year latter in TT with Aim-9M and Aim-54C + Aim-120A , its 200+ IQ
surely its just a F14B or F14D Early
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I know way back in the day there were some more photo’s - but they’ve been lost to time on the internet, and I’ve seen some point to it being the ST-21, and others that it’s pick a version of production Tomcat with a dual rail setup. As well as rails designed for commonality and all - especially as the F-14D was made digital to go right alongside the more modernized aircraft, though not necessarily used as with the defunding of AMRAAM’s for F-14’s they didn’t need to use those launch rails. But as I recall the pictures, allegedly, come from where they did the missile tests for the AMRAAM on the Tomcat.
I just know there’s a ton of scattered stuff out there. And even if it was a mock up on an F-14D as a super tomcat, a twin rail based on that would be one of the least egregious stretches of reality in this game in terms of the jet age aircraft and their weapons.
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Thank you
I’m doing Research Germany MiG-29 tech tree line
I’ll got the many kill = )
What?
It seems like the easiest solution here, to a lot of the frustration regarding this aircraft, is to add the F-14D as a tech tree variant, and also add the F-14A+ as a premium and just give both Aim-120As. While F-14D may never had actually carried them, we know it could and that was good enough for giving the Yak-141 well every single thing it has but never actually recieved. And the F-14A+ did in fact carry Aim-120As. Best of both worlds. Players can get the highly requested F-14D and Gaijin can still sell a copy-and-paste premium.
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