Disagreed. The F-14D has no HMD, and the AIM-9M is not as potent as it once was.
We’ve been asking for AIM-9Ls on the F-14A and AIM-9Ms on the F-14B specifically so their BRs do not get moved down. Even if those missiles were added, it would not meaningfully impact everything within the extremely compressed BR range of top-tier air battles.
I was just joking my dude , i have several planes with aim9ms in br of 12.7 and br 13 , plus the frenchie magic4k has 8 matra magic 2s which are so much better. Su30 is 13.3 with very good fm , hmd , amraams and r73. F14d is going to be doa
R77
Damn, that flew over me. Good one.
Because he has nightmares because of it still maybe…
Or because it has many white stars and not one red.
Yea r77/pl12 thanks for the correction
👍🏼 yup np
im really surprised that they choose to keep the F-14A IRAF with America at this point. With the way they have favored planes with non NATO missiles you would think they would have kept it with the USSR.
The Devs are so incredibility bias. There is no reasons to not give this plane AIM 7- P’s.
DL dosent work for the 7P on the F-14
it will just be a 7M
Because if the f14A iraf or even if they add f14AM into the Russian tech tree I can tell you now the forums will be filled with multiple Russian aircraft that the USA PURCHASED that could go into the USA tech tree mig17 MiG 21 MiG 23 MiG 29 and I think a few others that I’m probably missing
Only the A/B not the D
The D was given newer and better DL systems like Link 16 and was the plane that conducted AIM-7P trials
R27er didnt work either with f14
Hi - Air Arcade player here - what stronger opponents can it actually face with 9M’s huh?
Because of how matchmaking works in Arcade - my F-14B if I play a match at 12.7 gets hammered by 14.0 planes pulled down to 13.7 matchmaking, and I assure you - they aren’t researching stuff on those planes. Oh what - the 14.3’s? Last I heard if MM takes too long it can kick up out of +/-1 which unless you put in hardcoded that it will never exceed +/-1 the 14.3’s that pull their planes down to 14.0 matchmaking can be seen. And the only reason I don’t see them, is that I have my 14B currently in a lineup to pull it down to 12.3 so that matchmaking bites slightly less. I say slightly, because I still encounter 13.7’s, like the F-15C MSIP II which heavily outguns me with 8x AMRAAM’s, or the Su-30 MKK and MK2 AMV’s those players are pulling down to 13.0 matchmaking so I see them a lot, oh, and the MiG-29N, at 13.0, that is routinely pulled down to 12.7 matchmaking, with 6x export R-77’s - and there is no map where I can even try and take advantage of the range difference, so it’s basically a Mach 4 missile with 50G overload vs a Mach 4.3 with 17G’s - guess which one wins and if you need a hint, it’s the one with the higher G rating. Oh, right and if for some insane reason, they don’t want to just take 6 RVV’s and instead take IR missiles - they get access to the R73E which is a all aspect IRCCM missile.
AIM-54’s don’t even come close to being good in Arcade, they are at best a joke, unless the other player is in a bomber or prop plane, it’s basically a test of whether or not your paying attention cause the only things it hits besides prop planes and bombers, is players not paying attention who just fly straight in to it. The F-14A and B need to move down in BR, if you seriously are going through with the nonsense that is adding the F-14D as is in this condition - you need to move it down in BR with them, cause it’s not competitive, it’s not even close to competitive, it does not have the performance or weapons to hang out at the BR it currently does. Just like the F-2A ADTW and other pre-AMRAAM type FOX-3 aircraft being added planes where the BR made sense back then, but no more. The F-14B - which has the same damn weapons and BR, already sees most of, if not all of, the best fighters in this game in it’s matchmaking BR, least on the Arcade end.
It seems they go off airframes and which nation gave them to the (subtree?ish) nation operator tree, tbh.
I do think the IRIAF should stay with the US, but it should also have historical armaments and not the R-27s it could never fire off.
It’s obnoxious, they could’ve just had historic armaments and had the premium version be a reskin, but they clearly only put in half the effort and instead we have this weird fake F-14D as a premium only…
Basically, they’ve decided it’s going to be a complete sidegrade to the F-14B
F-4J/F-4S all over again
Nice, incredible
did you mean upgrade
Guess PL-12s are already heading towards poor souls at level 5 which are cosplaying Maverick using AIM-54C which itself isn’t compatible with F-14D… Wait a sec…
pl12 got nerfed , r77 would be better
I mean it would be still worse in every single aspect, and I’m not talking about IRIAF, C.10 would be probably better even though it carries 4 derbys lmao.
