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Del3te-O: /* AIM-7 Sparrow */

2023-06-18T19:39:33Z

‎AIM-7 Sparrow

Del3te-O: /* Gun Fire Rate */

2023-06-18T19:30:51Z

‎Gun Fire Rate

Del3te-O: /* Gun Fire Rate */

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‎Gun Fire Rate

Del3te-O: /* Gun Rates */

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‎Gun Rates

Del3te-O: /* Mk81/82/83/84 GPB */

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‎Mk81/82/83/84 GPB

Del3te-O: /* Mk81/82/83/84 GPB */

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‎Mk81/82/83/84 GPB

Del3te-O: /* Mk81/82/83/84 GPB */

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‎Mk81/82/83/84 GPB

Del3te-O: /* Mk81/82/83/84 GPB */

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‎Mk81/82/83/84 GPB

Del3te-O: /* Mk81/82/83/84 GPB */

2022-04-04T17:58:12Z

‎Mk81/82/83/84 GPB

Del3te-O: /* Missile Preparation */

2022-03-26T21:59:37Z

‎Missile Preparation

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 ===AIM-7 Sparrow===
-The AIM-7 Sparrow is an active-radar guided missile for Air-to-Air employment. This missile requires an active radar lock to a contact in order to guide itself for impact. The benefit of this missile is that it is able to lose trackoing guidance if the aircraft breaks the lock on a friendly contact, as well as being able to be used in a mixed scenario.
+The AIM-7 Sparrow is a semi-active-radar homing medium range air to air missile. As such, it requires guidance all the way to impact. The F 14 is equipped with 4 variants of the sparrow. The F, M, MH, and P.
-The maximum range of the Sparrow under optimal conditions as the Phoenix is ~25 nmi. The recommended distance, however, is roughly ~10 nmi.
+Upwards of the MH, these missiles are capable of lofting to increase their range, while the F has a worse motor and seeker compared to the M. All of these missiles can be guided by PD-; and P-STT radar locks and if necessary by the AWG-9s flood mode. Unlike the Phoenix, the Sparrow only provides medium range capabilities, but is quite lethal at ranges up to 15nm while being less clunky to operate than the Phoenix.
 ===AIM-9 Sidewinder===

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 =Gun Fire Rate=
-The F-14's pneumatically driven M61 cannon is able to fire at 2 rates of fire as selected by the pilot on the ACM panel below the HUD. The GUN RATE pushbutton voth served as an indicator and as a toggle for the two possible fire rates with the currently enabled one being illuminated with a red backlight.
+The F-14's pneumatically driven M61 cannon is able to fire at 2 rates of fire which are selectable in flight by the pilot on the ACM panel below the HUD. The GUN RATE pushbutton voth served as an indicator and as a toggle for the two possible fire rates with the currently enabled one being illuminated with a red backlight.
 *'''Low'''

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 The F-14's pneumatically driven M61 cannon is able to fire at 2 rates of fire as selected by the pilot on the ACM panel below the HUD. The GUN RATE pushbutton voth served as an indicator and as a toggle for the two possible fire rates with the currently enabled one being illuminated with a red backlight.
-===Low===
+*'''Low'''
 The low fire rates put ammo preservation firet and decreases the fire rate to 4000 RPM. This can be useful for destroying slow moving aircraft such as bombers or ground targets.
-===High===
+*'''High'''
 High fire rate lets the cannon fire at its maximum rate of 6000RPM and is usually used in close quarters fights with enemy fighter aircraft.

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 The F-14 Tomcat is outfitted with the M61A1 Vulcan 6-barreled Gatling cannon, being able to hold up a maximum of 675 rounds internally.
-===Gun Rates===
+=Gun Fire Rate=
-* '''LOW:''' mode which slows down the muzzle rate, used for Air-to-Ground.
+The F-14's pneumatically driven M61 cannon is able to fire at 2 rates of fire as selected by the pilot on the ACM panel below the HUD. The GUN RATE pushbutton voth served as an indicator and as a toggle for the two possible fire rates with the currently enabled one being illuminated with a red backlight.
-* '''HIGH:''' mode which is to be used for Basic Fighter Maneuvering. (BFM)
 ===Gun Modes===

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 As general purpose bombs, these are unguided, simple, "dumb" bombs that are simply dropped from the aircraft in a free fall style and detonate on impact or with a small delay.
-The DCS F-14 has 4 of these bombs available. The Mk.81 is the smallest of the series with 250 pounds. The Mk82 is double the weight, being a 500 pound class bomb. The Mk 83 doubles the load again to reach 1000 pounds per bomb, while the largest is the Mk84 with 2000 pounds of weight behind it. The RIO selects which bomb type is on the stores he selected with a rotating wheel on the armament panel on the left of his cockpit.
+The DCS F-14 has 4 of these bombs available. The Mk.81 is the smallest of the series with 250 pounds. The Mk82 is double the weight, being a 500 pound class bomb. The Mk 83 doubles the load again to reach 1000 pounds per bomb, while the largest is the Mk84 with 2000 pounds of weight behind it. The RIO selects which bomb type is on the stores he selected with a rotating wheel on the armament panel on the left of his cockpit. This provides the computer with the necessary information to compute the impact point in all computer bombing modes, and fulfills the same function for the LANTIRN. The RIO then simply needs to select the stations on which the desired weapons hang, the ripple interval and the ripple quantity, to allow the pilot to employ the weapons.
 To deploy these weapons, the crew of the F-14 has two main computer aiming options. Firstly, it can use "Computer Pilot", a CCIP equivalent which uses radar rangefinding to deliver bombs on target with an aiming cross displayed on the HUD. The Pilot simply puts the target under the crosshair and depresses "stores release" to employ the selected weapon at that location. This mode is the default and can be accessed if the pilot simply puts the PDCP selector to "A/G". The RIO can, change the modes manually, should the crew so desire. The "Bombing mode selector knob" is used to either make sure that computer pilot is selected, or to swap to the alternative modes. Secondly, the Tomcat has a mode similar to "CCRP" know as "Computer target". If this mode is selected while the A/G mode is active, the pilots symbology will change to add a diamond to the bomb fall line which the pilot can move up and down by using the VSL HI and VSL LO switch on the sidewall. Then, once the diamond is over the target, he can press the rocker in to the PLM/Target designate position to fix the diamond in place. The AN/AWG-9s radar is then, similar to certain AJS-37 bombing modes slaved to the target point for rangefinding. After designating the target, the pilot simply needs to fly his flight path vector on the hud onto the bomb fall line and hold the stores release.

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 The DCS F-14 has 4 of these bombs available. The Mk.81 is the smallest of the series with 250 pounds. The Mk82 is double the weight, being a 500 pound class bomb. The Mk 83 doubles the load again to reach 1000 pounds per bomb, while the largest is the Mk84 with 2000 pounds of weight behind it. The RIO selects which bomb type is on the stores he selected with a rotating wheel on the armament panel on the left of his cockpit.
-To deploy these weapons, the crew of the F-14 has two main computer aiming options. Firstly, it can use "Computer Pilot", a CCIP equivalent which uses radar rangefinding to deliver bombs on target with an aiming cross displayed on the HUD. The Pilot simply puts the target under the crosshair and depresses "stores release" to employ the selected weapon at that location. This mode is the default and can be accessed if the pilot simply puts the PDCP selector to "A/G". The RIO can, change the modes manually, should the crew so desire. The "Bombing mode selector knob" is used to either make sure that computer pilot is selected, or to swap to the alternative modes. Secondly, the Tomcat has a mode similar to "CCRP" know as "Computer target". If this mode is selected while the A/G mode is active, the pilots symbology will change to add a diamond to the bomb fall line which the pilot can move up and down by using the VSL HI and VSL LO switch on the sidewall. Then, once the diamond is over the target, he can press the rocker in to the PLM/Target designate position to fix the diamond in place. The AN/AWG-9s radar is then, similar to "Computer Target" slaved to the target point for rangefinding. After designating the target, the pilot simply needs to fly his flight path vector on the hud onto the bomb fall line and hold the stores release.
+To deploy these weapons, the crew of the F-14 has two main computer aiming options. Firstly, it can use "Computer Pilot", a CCIP equivalent which uses radar rangefinding to deliver bombs on target with an aiming cross displayed on the HUD. The Pilot simply puts the target under the crosshair and depresses "stores release" to employ the selected weapon at that location. This mode is the default and can be accessed if the pilot simply puts the PDCP selector to "A/G". The RIO can, change the modes manually, should the crew so desire. The "Bombing mode selector knob" is used to either make sure that computer pilot is selected, or to swap to the alternative modes. Secondly, the Tomcat has a mode similar to "CCRP" know as "Computer target". If this mode is selected while the A/G mode is active, the pilots symbology will change to add a diamond to the bomb fall line which the pilot can move up and down by using the VSL HI and VSL LO switch on the sidewall. Then, once the diamond is over the target, he can press the rocker in to the PLM/Target designate position to fix the diamond in place. The AN/AWG-9s radar is then, similar to certain AJS-37 bombing modes slaved to the target point for rangefinding. After designating the target, the pilot simply needs to fly his flight path vector on the hud onto the bomb fall line and hold the stores release.
 The Mk.82 specifically also comes in two high drag variants. One with a drogue and the "snakeeye". These bombs, are designed to be dropped while in low, level flight.

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 The DCS F-14 has 4 of these bombs available. The Mk.81 is the smallest of the series with 250 pounds. The Mk82 is double the weight, being a 500 pound class bomb. The Mk 83 doubles the load again to reach 1000 pounds per bomb, while the largest is the Mk84 with 2000 pounds of weight behind it. The RIO selects which bomb type is on the stores he selected with a rotating wheel on the armament panel on the left of his cockpit.
-To deploy these weapons, the crew of the F-14 has two main computer aiming options. Firstly, it can use "Computer Pilot", a CCIP equivalent which uses radar rangefinding to deliver bombs on target with an aiming cross displayed on the HUD. The Pilot simply puts the target under the crosshair and depresses "stores release" to destroy the target. This mode is the default and can be accessed if the pilot simply puts the PDCP selector to "A/G". The RIO can, change the modes manually, should the crew so desire. The "Bombing mode selector knob" is used to either make sure that computer pilot is selected, or to swap to the alternative modes. Secondly, the Tomcat has a mode similar to "CCRP" know as "Computer target". If this mode is selected while the A/G mode is active, the pilots symbology will change to add a diamond to the bomb fall line which the pilot can move up and down by using the VSL HI and VSL LO switch on the sidewall. Then, once the diamond is over the target, he can press the rocker in to the PLM position to fix the diamond in place. The AN/AWG-9s radar is then, similar to "Computer Target" slaved to the target point for rangefinding. After designating the target, the pilot simply needs to fly his flight path vector on the hud onto the bomb fall line and hold the stores release.
+To deploy these weapons, the crew of the F-14 has two main computer aiming options. Firstly, it can use "Computer Pilot", a CCIP equivalent which uses radar rangefinding to deliver bombs on target with an aiming cross displayed on the HUD. The Pilot simply puts the target under the crosshair and depresses "stores release" to destroy the target. This mode is the default and can be accessed if the pilot simply puts the PDCP selector to "A/G". The RIO can, change the modes manually, should the crew so desire. The "Bombing mode selector knob" is used to either make sure that computer pilot is selected, or to swap to the alternative modes. Secondly, the Tomcat has a mode similar to "CCRP" know as "Computer target". If this mode is selected while the A/G mode is active, the pilots symbology will change to add a diamond to the bomb fall line which the pilot can move up and down by using the VSL HI and VSL LO switch on the sidewall. Then, once the diamond is over the target, he can press the rocker in to the PAL/Target designate position to fix the diamond in place. The AN/AWG-9s radar is then, similar to "Computer Target" slaved to the target point for rangefinding. After designating the target, the pilot simply needs to fly his flight path vector on the hud onto the bomb fall line and hold the stores release.
 The Mk.82 specifically also comes in two high drag variants. One with a drogue and the "snakeeye". These bombs, are designed to be dropped while in low, level flight.
 Additionally, the Tomcat also posses the option to release in "manual" mode as selected by the RIO. This will remove any altitude, or release time restrains from the computer and allow you to drop the selected bombs at any time without any aiming aide. In DCS this is mainly used for Laser Guided bombs, for which aiming is provided by the LANTIRN.
 ===GBU-12/14/16 LGB===
 WIP.

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 ==Air-to-Air Missiles==
 ===Missile Preparation===
-Missile preparation in the F-14B Tomcat is started by moving the master arm switch on the ACM panel underneath the HUD to ON. This is then followed by pressing the MSL PREP and SW COOL buttons to be ON, depending on the armament type.
+Missile preparation in the F-14B Tomcat is started by moving the master arm switch on the ACM panel underneath the HUD to ON. This is then followed by pressing the MSL PREP and SW COOL buttons to be ON, depending on the armament type. Radar guided missiles give the ready indication with white flags appearing the the station indicator windows on the ACM panel, or when the "HOT TRIG" light illuminates with either a Sparrow or Phoenix selected. The AIM-9s indiacted their ready to use state, by an audible tone that, when a monotonous tone can be heard through the pilots headphones.
 ===AIM-54 Phoenix===