Belsimtek has been working on it, but there's been no news from F-4 since their last news in 2017 :(

@@FD1CE There is no Belsimtek anymore. And Belsimtek was a branch of Eagle Dynamics.

@@jjansgi oh that's whyvtheir website is no more active I guess. I hope their projects like F-4E continue however.

@Jeff Clark Oh thanks, so heartbroken to hear it!

Guess what, they are

There is a long report of work dome by HB on official DCS Forum, including the status of forrestal and A6 ;) Carrier delayed until end of 2020 to give support to ED SuperCarrier

@@Maverick87Shaka Carrier is not delayed to the end of 2020. That's not what their post said at all.

@@IkusaGT I think he means the A-6

​@@blaze6400 Nowhere in the post did it say anything about the A-6 being delayed until the end of the year, either. Where are you people getting this information? XD

@@canopy9244 I was trying to interpret what the first reply said. I don't have any idea what Heatblur is doing.

ME option for them would be nice.

I thought everyone went full burner on all take offs except hoggit. :)

LoL, I’ve never done a non-afterburner take off. F that

But Heatblur needs to make the F-14A cockpit. It has to be authentic and accurate.

@@blueofthelightanddark6273 they're working on it

Okay. But here’s the real difference: forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/439373-f-14-abd-tomcat-true-topgun/page/2/

Dylan Kikunaga I don’t think you should be taking info from a warthunder forum. I get most of them are smart in terms of just looking things up like the rest of us but I think it’s better just to provide a link to an image of the differences. The picture showing the difference was like all the way at the bottom and not really worth anyone’s time. Plus the game is trash af.

nibby wibby you’re right. i just don’t like to add pictures. But... off topic, I know some or most F-14As were upgraded to have the same modifications that were on the F-14B variants. I think Heatblur should have ecm blisters (under glove vanes and portside landing gear), gps dome, tacan antenna naca gun vents, and uhf antennas on the F-14A and add the TF30 P&W Turbofan engines.

Just imagine a B model, with different nozzles.

That’s what I’m excited. But Heatblur needs to examine the F-14A cockpits. There are slight differences between the F-14A cockpit and F-14B cockpit. Edit: Never mind the F-14A cockpit looks the same as the F-14B. I think it’s possible that some F-14As are equipped with ALR-67 Indicators.

@@blueofthelightanddark6273 The D model has the biggest pit differences I think

@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM and glove vanes

@@blueofthelightanddark6273 i saw a etxremely stock A model: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14#/media/Datei:ECN-13222-small.jpg

There are slight differences between the F-14A cockpit, the F-14A+ cockpit and the F-14B cockpit. Edit: forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/439373-f-14-abd-tomcat-true-topgun/page/2/

probably different sound, and the f14 have a different cockpit too. This is just a test with the tf30 performance, i think.

B should have digital fuel gauges IIRC. What were have now is what the A is supposed to have. IIRC, the A didn't the RWR in that same spot, at least not originally. Otherwise pretty much the same except for engine. If we could have a do-over, would wish for 2003 F-14B upgrade with sparrowhawk HUD. That would have made it distinctive inside and out in the details.

@@GyntonikSoul ok cheers

They're doing a new soundset for the A (the B will get one soon too), this is just WIP

forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/439373-f-14-abd-tomcat-true-topgun/page/2/

yup.

If you bought the B, you'll get the A 👍

If you get the A you will get the D. Lol

*LANTIRN And no. The A model wasn't compatible with the LANTIRN

All 3 variants of the Tomcat are LTS fitted (Lantirn Targetting System). VF41 and VF-154 were some of the best Fast Fac (Airborne)

This was on the planned features for this year, I don't remember what quarter it was planned tho...

the cockpit is also very different but it's not shown

Different engines, different RWR

The engines are, let's say, 'quite different'

If you their was an exterior shot, you can quickly distinguish the A and B models, by their nozzles.

F-14A came first and the B included much better engines.

F14B has about 25 percent more thrust and is less prone to compressor stalls/engine failures.

The F-14B is what the F-14 was supposed to be. The F-14A is the worst mismatch of engines and airframe ever. It was extremely underpowered and very capricious to the point where it killed many pilots as depicted in Top Gun even.

Oh dear child... Ignorance is bliss.

Just want to point out that, while the engines in the A are less powerful most of the time, it's most pronounced at higher altitudes and lower speeds. The TF30 engines in the A were pulled from the F-111 and are super specialized for going fast as hell, low as hell. Legend has it an F-14A on the deck is nearly untouchable fast, just like the 111. It'll be interesting to see how different they really are.

A version has underpowered engines and lack of Television Camera System that let you to lock and see planes from ten miles away. A offers the an IR system to see an image of planes locked. When wings are back a couple of little wings exit from the beginning of the wing to give more stability.

The A was equipped with TF-30 engines as well as the ALR-45 RWR (which is in a separate part of the cockpit to ALR-67). The B has F110 engines and later would be modified the allow the use of the LANTIRN targeting pod.

Cockpit differences: forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/439373-f-14-abd-tomcat-true-topgun/page/2/

From what I understand, obtaining enough nonclassified source materials to properly model the D has proven nearly impossible.

@@JETZcorp Last I remember was that they were trying to get enough non classified info and trying to see if they could one day make it!

@@JETZcorp What utter nonsense are you talking about?!!!!? The entire Eurofighter Typhoon program including all its classified systems is about to be compromised by the release of a German Eurofighter Typhoon module for DCS World this year meanwhile your saying that no documentation can be found for the F-14D which was retired 14 years ago.... Heatblur has ALL they need to develop the D module.... Ex F-14D pilots for lord's sake!!!!!!!

@@ColmVD I'm telling you what Heatblur have said. You have to remember that different planes are subject to very different classification rules. For example, we've seen in the last year that in order to make the Mirage 2000C module (which has no 21st century systems), Razbam had to make a ton of guesses, because the French are very tight with their data. Heatblur have said they are absolutely unwilling to take artistic license like that with aircraft systems. That's also why no one has been able to do something as basic as a full fidelity MiG-29; Russia take that stuff very seriously. In the case of the F-14, because Iran has a fleet of them, the US holds F-14 data very close, in order to prevent Iran from gaining benefit. That's why Heatblur were only able to model an old version only equipped with highly outdated equipment, and ED were able to make a very modern Hornet. Now in the case of that Eurofighter project, I'm very skeptical about it, but I also know that ED have a strict policy about usage of classified data (which is why the in-game AMRAAM is so nerfed btw). Germany must have a much looser policy on such things, or these devs are intent on playing it loose with accuracy. I can tell you if Razbam announced they were releasing a Rafale module to the public, their whole team would be in jail within hours.

@@JETZcorp so what you're saying is that an F-14D module cannot be developed by Heatblur because of the Iranians...... ? I think the Iranians (if they wanted to do any reverse engineering) could buy the F/A-18C module (currently in service not like the retired F-14) and learn many of the Hornet's systems and refit their old F-14A Persian Cats with F/A-18 reverse engineered hardware.... There's absolutely no excuse. We F-14 module owners are willing to pay Heatblur, just take our cash!!!!!!!!!! and give us the D

Less range, and less power, especially when not using afterburner. A model was more of a interceptor / fleet defender, compared to the multirole-ish B-variant.

Aleksi Mäkelä more power in afterburner I think

@@Nibby802 No the A-variant's TF-30 engine had worse performance throughout entire flight envelope.

@@aleksimakela6787 but SEXY Nozzles !

C model doesn't exist (thanks Air Force), D model may come if they get one of the natops unclassified.

+1 And engine idle sound gets louder the farther from the aircraft you get, up to a point when it starts to drop

according to the dev report that just came out, sound improvements are still coming

We hear that they say that will fix it since the plane was release, I was one of the firsts to notice it and report it everywhere, in Heatblur facebook private messages, asking and confirming it with other players, messages in ED forums and its Facebook page and shared with Interpridgamer that was trying to release a f14b sound mod to december but because of this problem in the f14b sound he didint progress with the mod. He even spoke with Heatblur reporting this bug aswell... nothing was done until now...

@Mars Exulte Buddy, i'm a huge fan of F14 module, and since it was release i always report anything wrong that I find, not because of me, but to the addon always get better and better quality and to everyone enjoy it.

I believe with

Without.

@@Foxhound617 Really?! Last I saw, granted it was before the EA release, they didn't want to mess with the glove vanes. Very cool if they were able to hash out all the math required to get them working properly!

@@travistolbert2647 they said they're going to add them visually but just not in a working form.

@@Foxhound617 aaaah thank you!

All cats will bite if you rub them the wrong way, especially a tomcat

Look at the nozzle position indicator. When he goes to max throttle position the nozzles closes, then slowly starts to open up to max or "Zone 5"

Best investment they'll ever make. Encouraging a child to learn new things while having fun is a good thing. 😊

It's because the Iranians fly the f14 and don't want to give them any information about the classified systems and have them used against them and the f14d isn't very well documented plus the U.S is very strict with classified documents unlike Germany which is loose about classified documents compared to the U.S and the eurofighter is older than the f16cm bl.50