Well obviously lot of things changes since that comment and things are more rough than they were, but i still think that F-14s dont need to go down, even if they struggle a bit.
There are other things that can be done tho, F-14A should get 9Ls and 14B should get 9Ms
and r73 for iriaf
I have yet to get around to play it properly, wouldnt R-73 + Fakour make for too strong of a combo?
no, the only reason r73 is strong on russian jets is hmd, iriaf doesnt have hmd, you also wouldnt be able to have more than 4 r73
Fair enough.
Not at all. Just as everyone predicted, people just don’t die to Fakours anymore. Just like people naturally stopped dying to Phoenixes. And with it being the F-14A, you can’t get to the ideal parameters for launches (outside of airspawns), which means your missiles perform worse overall. The R-73 won’t fix the problems the F-14A IRIAF has, but it’ll help it perform in its worst element, which is CQC.
Eh, fair enough. Thinking about it, my one concern was that because Fakours are better than Phoenixes, it would end up being better than F-14B should it get R-73s, but then again, it has the same RWR as naval Phantoms and same amount of CMs.
F-14B has the RWR/Engine advantage still, IRIAF is using incredibly outdated avionics and FM at 13.0
oh i forgot it gets 9hs imo it should go to 13.0 but get 9ls and b to 13.3 for 9ms both are pretty good hard to balence so eh