F-15 vs F-14

[Rdash007]

It was a schoolyard topic in the 80's which plane is better, the F-14 or the F-15? The F-14 was the best plane the US Navy had in the 80's replacing the F-4 Phantom II, but was it the best plane in the US arsenal? The answer is and was no. Top Gun glorified the F-14 Tomcat which was a great plane but in aerial combat the F-15 or the F-16 was a better choice. The F-15 may not have been as pretty as the F-14 but in aerial combat it was a better choice. It was designed as an Air Superiority Fighter, and is still in use today. I love both planes but I decided to see which was better myself.

 

So I made a quick simulation and set the F-14 up as the computer and set the pilot settings to high. To match my own skill set. I am piloting the F-15 and although it did take 3 missiles to shoot it down, it really wasn't that hard to do. The SU-33 has given me more of a run for my money then the F-14.

 

Let's have a look at what happened.

Edited September 6, 2020 by Rdash007

[Mr_sukebe]

Now try that combat with the F15 having no Aim120s, which wasn’t introduced until 91, by which time the F14 was something like 18 years old.

[QuiGon]

It was a schoolyard topic in the 80's which plane is better, the F-14 or the F-15? The F-14 was the best plane the US Navy had in the 80's replacing the F-4 Phantom II, but was it the best plane in the US arsenal? The answer is and was no. Top Gun glorified the F-14 Tomcat which was a great plane but in aerial combat the F-15 or the F-16 was a better choice. The F-15 may not have been as pretty as the F-14 but in aerial combat it was a better choice. It was designed as an Air Superiority Fighter, and is still in use today. I love both planes but I decided to see which was better myself.

 

So I made a quick simulation and set the F-14 up as the computer and set the pilot settings to high. To match my own skill set. I am piloting the F-15 and although it did take 3 missiles to shoot it down, it really wasn't that hard to do. The SU-33 has given me more of a run for my money then the F-14.

 

Let's have a look at what happened.

The AI is a really bad measurment for that, especially as the Tomcat AI doesn't know hot to employ the Phoenix properly...

[Stingray 537 Mongo]

Your not wrong about Top Gun glorifying the F-14 but you can't use DCS as your metric to say the F-15 was definitively better than the F-14. The flight models are good but they aren't perfect and the AI is dumber than a box of rocks with lead poisoning in a lot of cases, not to mention the AI flight model doesn't play by the same rules and the player's.

 

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