F-14 B(U)

[Father Cool]

Hi, I keep hearing about an F-14B(U) in development but cant see any official word on this anywhere. Is it in development and when are we likely to see it if it is?

[Zabuzard]

13 minutes ago, Father Cool said:

Hi, I keep hearing about an F-14B(U) in development but cant see any official word on this anywhere. Is it in development and when are we likely to see it if it is?

Yeah, that is correct. Some in-progress pics of the F-14B(U) have (accidentally) been shared a few months ago in various channels. Shortly after the team has confirmed to work on this module in Discord. There is not much more to it yet, as the team focuses on finishing the Early F-14A first (which is part of the F-14 module you guys purchased).

The latest "official statement" to the B(U) is:

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We’re also growing - and are excited to talk about the A-6E and F-14BU being in active development and [...]

Edited 5 hours ago by Zabuzard

[Zabuzard]

I believe it was this one:

 

[Father Cool]

Ok thanks for that. I don't get a lot of time for DCS but I was a weekly tomcat driver on DCS for about 4 years or so flying no other aircraft.

When the Eurofighter was announced by HB I was majorly excited to be getting a new aircraft that I wanted to get my teeth into, still waiting on that. In the meantime RB released the F15E and I jumped straight in, spending my precious time learning that aircraft and parking the F-14.

To say I was annoyed when the bottom fell out of the F-15E is an understatement, I am a full online squadron pilot and never really do single player, so when the F-15E stalled the whole of my squadron dropped the F-15E making my dedicated learning worthless.

Since then (just over a year and a half now) I haven't picked DCS back up. I am eagerly awaiting the Eurofighter which seems to be taking an age. When I heard that HB were finally giving the Tomcat some more modern love I again got excited, I was hoping for a D with MFD's etc from day one but a B(U) will suffice. I was hoping the B(U) could be a stopgap until the EF arrives but I am doubting that now.

Edited 4 hours ago by Father Cool

[Silver_Dragon]

From Heatblur Discord. (last update on July 2025)
 

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Hi @everyone!

Hope everyone’s having a fantastic summer! We’re having a busy one here at Heatblur; but it may not look like it just yet. Sadly, we had very lofty goals for various releases in these summer months, but the ambition of our roadmap has made it sensitive to forks in the road and delays; and subsequently the next DCS patch will again be empty and devoid of Heatblur changes.

We’ve got a simply put, comprehensive list of new additions, changes and updates to essentially every product coming! Some of these include another large Viggen update, the early -A for the Tomcat, the A-6E AI, and a slew of new stuff for the F-4 such as Jester Pave Spike, Combat Tree, a novel EFB feature, and persistent aircraft; a feature that will be especially interesting for mission makers, campaign creators and the player him or herself- who may now have to manage how they treat the aircraft. For this we also improved the wear and tear systems, added various new failures and more. The complexity and size of some of these additions have made it necessary for us to avoid the monthly update cadence, and we've run into some delays on finalizing/testing some of these features.

We’re also growing - and are excited to talk about the A-6E and F-14BU being in active development and the imminent release of the F-4E Phantom II for Microsoft Flight Simulator! This is in parallel with, of course, the continued quest to scale the colossus that is the Eurofighter.

We’ll be writing much more about many of these additions and changes in an upcoming development update; but in the meantime we’re working hard to start delivering features throughout August and September. Apologies for another empty changelog from Heatblur for now, but no matter how diligent our branching would be, all products are in such a state of flux that it would be difficult to ship smaller fixes without sacrificing the testing process.

Thank you for your patience and support, we hope it’ll be worth it once many of the elements above drop and we’re excited to share more ASAP!

Sincerely,
Team Heatblur 

 

Remember F-14B(U) was show on "2025 and beyond" video, with a Sparrowhawk HUD.