Will the F14BU allows pilot control radar?

[Q3ark]

On 10/11/2025 at 10:07 PM, Rhrich said:

This is correct 

They would cooperate. Remember they also had the IRST, and it could be used seperatly. That’s also true of the lantirn. 
 

Never flown a two seater, but it does not require much imagination to think of many operational advantages 

I thought we were talking about the F14 BU, that aircraft didn’t have an IRST and the lantirn only had controls in the back.

Edited Monday at 07:40 PM by Q3ark
Typo

[Rhrich]

3 hours ago, Q3ark said:

I thought we were talking about the F14 BU, that aircraft didn’t have an IRST and the lantirn only had controls in the back.

It started with the B(U). Then someone said that the D had what the OP asked about, then another asked if that would have any use. 

[scommander2]

Yup. we were kind offed from the subject for B(U)  

Edited Tuesday at 04:32 PM by scommander2

[Q3ark]

People around here are obsessed with the “D”

[Dragon1-1]

B(U) us basically the D with the AWG-9 and no IRST. It seems that the idea was to make them as good as the D at air to ground, but without rebuilding them into fully fledged Ds (like what was done with some As).

[Q3ark]

On 10/14/2025 at 6:41 PM, Dragon1-1 said:

B(U) us basically the D with the AWG-9 and no IRST. It seems that the idea was to make them as good as the D at air to ground, but without rebuilding them into fully fledged Ds (like what was done with some As).

That old AWG-9 is great. Once you learn how to use it properly it’s like the eye of Sauron, nobody gets away

[Dragon1-1]

The AWG-71 supposedly blows it out of the water, including a special mode that can combine two Tomcats' radars into one massive radar dish, but it's still classified.