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It's not fair of LNS not to give the pilot access to the de-icer for in flight refuelling ;):drink: :drunk:

or a second hand one in the UK for £402 :megalol:

Just like this? From Tomcat: Bye Bye Baby

At least the pipper is on the right spot ;)

VEAO will be doing an Airbus A330 MRTT tanker at some point for the Typhoon, it should have probe and drogue :)

Single Track mode?

From 1977:

Offhand I can't remember where I read about the HARM, I'll link it up when I have found it again. Here is one of the pages from the Standard Aircraft Characteristics where it shows the load out, it is listed under ordnance on another page which gives the general specifications of the aircraft too.

not the probes themselves but the covers of the probes were removed as they could fall off when the probe was extended and foul the engine intake.

The HARM is listed as one of the weapons that the F-14 could carry. Also listed is the rocket pod with 4, 5" rockets per pod, using the LAU 10A/A adapter/launcher rack, she can carry 2 pods on station 3 and 1 pod on station 6. From Navair 00-110AF14-1

First aircraft to "supercruise" was the English Electric P1b in the 1950s it was the prototype of the English Electric Lightning, the P1b didn't have an afterburner. The lightning could also achieve about Mach 1.3 on full mil power and over Mach 2 with reheat. The Concorde also supercruised at Mach 2+ it only used afterburner to get up to height quickly but once there it was dry power. There was a proposal for the Tomcat to be re-engined and the new engines would allow a Mach 1.2 - 1.3 supercruise but nothing came of the proposal.

I have to wait for the Bluray to fly it's self over the Atlantic...

Not only was it used as an AWACS by Iran, the F-14D was also used by the USA as a FAC(A) with the ROVER system providing real-time data and video to troops on the ground. Anecdote: In 1998 I was doing something similar with the police. The police helicopter had it's camera/sensor suite and it broadcast it's images down to my car where an operator could look at the images to help co-ordinate how we were going to deploy. My car had a CCTV camera and transmitter which broadcast back to the police CCTV control room, the helicopter broadcast to both my car and to the control room, the control room then linked those images back to the police mobile HQ. We first used the system to catch a gang that had attempted to murder a youth, it was a successful operation with the 4 gang members being caught, two by the thermal imager of the helicopter directing the police to encircle the suspects and the other two by my use of the CCTV on the vehicle to direct an officer to one suspect and then as a decoy to lure the other out. Seeing how well that worked, and we made the system up in the field the day before we put it to use at a large pop festival where the incident happened, I can only imagine how the FAC operators could love the ROVER system :) My little car with the CCTV and radio data link on it.

Depending on how much and how well of the RIO's office is simulated it could make an involved set of game play in it's self. How much of the radar ECM and ECCM can be implemented in DCS, are the other modules and systems from other 3rd party developers going to be compliant with what the Mig-21bis and in the future the F-14a/b going to bring to the sim?

Also by the look of it, Iran is putting the Hawk internals inside an AIM54 shell now too, the Hawk electronics are compatible with the AWG9 radar

Added to that, a few days ago there was an announcement from Iran about on going upgrades to extend their lives to 2030. Also that Iran has managed to reverse engineer the AIM 54 and are producing new models of them Edit: Link http://theaviationist.com/2015/03/01/iriaf-f-14s-overhauled/

The F-14A could also carry bombs, it was built into the stores management system from the start. It needed an upgrade to the tactical information display to be able to use LANTRIN to designate it's own guided munitions

How is the NFO going to draw circles on his screen without his joystick? F-14D: F-14B:

Now VEAO are doing a Tubruq are a map for WW2 operations which is not that far outside the area you have highlighted.

From the Naval Training Program

Is that for the TF-30 engines or F-110 or both?

from http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/an-elite-f-14-airman-explains-why-the-tomcat-was-so-imp-1610043625 I remember reading it in Tomcat: Bye Bye Baby as well

In peace time it was limited to 6.5g, but has been known to pull 12g in at least one case, and after inspection the aircraft was returned to full fight duty, tough old Turkey :joystick::pilotfly: Edit: to compare, the EE Lightning had one aircraft do a manoeuvre that stressed the airframe to 13g and it had to be retired as it was slightly bent afterwards :)

Yes nearly went into a flat inverted spin there :D

The wife will have to make her own breakfast at this rate :)