Missing F-14 changelog from today's hotfix

[RustBelt]

their behavior towards chaff as simplistic as in DCS

 

This right here. You can talk real world specifics until you're blue in the face, but DCS isn't even close to the real world when it comes to this (or anything really, it's all an approximation)

 

AMRAAM aren't magically Chaff proof, but unlike the Phoenix they can think ahead and search. The Phoenix relies on the AWG-9 burning through the Chaff until terminal phase. At which point its lower maneuverability and limited seeker scan means if you can lose it, you lose it. Once it doesn't see you, it's blind to the world, It's just less likely to not see you in the first place until real close, so in DCS the Chaff Coefficient number evens out 6 of one half dozen of the other when properly deployed.

[majapahit]

I heard the opposite re its (C Variant)usefulness against fighter targets.

Edit: Here is Dave Baraneks take on it and he certainly would know , scroll down to the AWG9&Aim-54 combo question and its second to last paragraph.

 

https://hushkit.net/2020/08/08/we-ask-a-real-topgun-instructor-to-rate-the-movies-realism-and-talk-f-14-tomcats/

' .. As for the AIM-54, it had active terminal radar and good anti-jamming capabilities, so it was tenacious about attacking something. ..'

 

' .. “The final version of the F-14, the F-14D, was a better fighter and strike fighter than the F-15C and F-15E, in one aircraft.

If you take a snapshot of time and compare the capabilities of the F-14D from 2003 (OIF) until its retirement in 2006, the jet had capabilities that were unrivalled.

Here is a short list: Digital Flight Controls with DLC; Wide HUD; Mach 2.0+; GE-110 motors; APG-71 high power and long range Medium PRF radar incorporated in a full MFD digital suite with a large programmable TID; IRST that could detect targets, including low observable aircraft, at range and provide with the new digital suite a tracking solution for the AIM-54C+ missiles ... '

[MBot]

I haven't followed all the Phoenix issues lately, but is the problem of Jester switching to RWS (repeatedly pressing his button) upon launching an AIM-54 being looked into?