They Powercrept This Jet So Fast | F-14B War Thunder

The F-14B was introduced in June, and had a short blaze of glory before being instantly supplanted by the F-16C Block 50. It's still quite decent, though who knows what'll happen when we get stuff like the F-15 and Su-27 soon...
00:00 Intro
00:40 Flight Performance
02:10 AIM-9M
03:05 Radar Missiles
04:45 F-14B Air Overview
06:30 CAS Ability

[joy_gantic]

If the F-14B is power crept then half the other top tier jets are literally unplayable

[seekerpro]

It still has a place in my heart as a delightful missile spammer.

[FXIIBeaver]

The F-14B has an amazing spot in GRB as an AA shield. 54s for drones and 7Ms and 9Ls for fighters.

[louloupiot]

I dont care im grinding USA for the f14b even if it is "not meta". This plane is really cool and so pretty looking <3

[JackIsMe]

I just dipped into 11.0 with the Mig 21bis and my respect for players that don't want to un-live them selfs after a few even weeks or years is peaking I mean massive respect in the time it took me to unlock chaff I felt dead went :(

[mayonotes]

Unfortunately in my experience the kill stealing issue is very prevalent when it comes to a large majority of CN players, they just don't give a shit and usually would steal your kills.

[Nighthawk]

Don't aim GBUs directly on tank roofs, there's a good chance the MG or other roof geometry will randomly eat the damage. Aim for the ground just next to their tracks.

[Terminus]

You had me in the first half “F-14 was the best dog fighter a competent pilot could beat anything” and I was like when the hell was that ever the case then I remembered I just got forced to face other f-14s every game

[LoudestHoward]

9:42 "It might be able to win a dogfight against an SMT" as an SMT slams into the ground for no reason lol

[spray]

F-14A was used as an AMRAAM testbed in 1982 and the F-14D had the software for the AMRAAM. It was never mounted on the F-14Ds. Unsure if Gaijin would be okay with implementing it.

[KjllShot]

Both f14's are my babies, f14 A is my missile boat but the B is my Swiss army knife, if you know it well enough it can do it all!

[kendicus]

I still find it more fun to play than the F-16C mainly due to the missile count, 700 countermeasures and the fact thay you don't get targeted as often because you don't have AIM-9M. The limiter on the Falcon also gets jarring

[SimplySinful]

The most noticeable problem i've found with the F-14 at top tier battles is the radar.


Loses lock way to easily and way too fast, combined with the fact you don't get an all-aspect PD mode on the radar really affects your situational awareness since you can barely detect or track targets flying away from you. F-14 is also a massive heat signature and you simply cannot get into dogfights against any R-73 carriers or you get slammed.

Also, when compared to F-16C, the latter gives you a higher resolution targeting pod, 6 mavericks + laser guided bombs while still carrying 4 AIM-9Ms... All of this in just 0.3 BR difference.

Really makes sense why is powercrept so bad.

Of course there's some more factors at play, but this sums it up.

[WurstWesen]

As for kill steals, the mentality of players has changed a lot in the last few months. It looks like nobody cares about stealing kills anymore.
I think it's so bad now that I'm thinking about changing my attitude towards killstealing too. It doesn't do me any good to be the one player in a hundred who respects it.

[weltall]

Very sad. The tomcat is such a genuinely cool plane too.

[thekspguy]

This plane is, no joke, my favorite plane in the game. Sure, it's not the rush playstyle the F-16 and MiG-29 are, but the missiles are good, the flight performance is great if you know how to use it, and the amount of countermeasures it has make it one of the best planes for long term and late game engagements. The Tomcat playstyle is definitely not for everyone though, as it requires significantly more patience and methodical engagements than the F-16.

[batlax]

My brother is a huge f14 fan. He got the A a few days ago and only has 130k rp until the B, and he doesn’t care how not meta it is, he’ll fly it lol. Besides I have the Netz and Obama so I can kind of protect him

[evangalinsky]

I wouldn't at all be surprised if they actually gave us the 14D this patch. Surprised no one has thought about it. Give it the 9M, same airframe and engines as the B but with much improved radar and avionics and everything else so, I mean literally why not. Not like it can use AMRAAMs, still just 54's, 7's, and 9's.

[eyo]

Now we can roleplay the final fight in Top Gun Maverick every single game now

[Android_ELITE]

on the matchup of SMT vs 14B: we did a lot of 1v1 dogfight testing between the two when the smt came out, it is very much possible to win a straight fight in the tomcat against the chunky fulcrum but it’s a close turnfight and obviously 9 times out of 10 you’ll be murdered by its much more useful missiles one way or another

regardless, high tier matches work in a way where you can still get kills just with good positioning and situational awareness even with a dogshit aircraft, much more so than at lower tiers of jets and especially compared to prop tier, so you can definitely still have plenty of fun in the 14. god knows I do.