![]() ![]() So i won't be complaining about not having D version. And if so, we are not sure its 100% reliable to do a module. Moreover IRAN search to improve/update it's tomcats, so even if some papers are available about D variants, not everything is available. Tomcat papers and info are very very sensitive whatever the model is. I'm sure HB did all legal stuff to avoid trouble like ED few year ago with full russian jets. we can talk about D Tomcat.īut as i should remind you, chuck couldn't do a chuck guide because he work with us army contractors and they told him he could get in trouble by doing this. So maybe it's not time to speak about what next yet?! Give them time and space and let see where we are in 1 or 2 year. ![]() Now they got HUUUUGE amount of work to do for A tomcat and asset pack. Also as we should expect, next module from HB may be A6 intruder since they heavily tease it before tomcat release. Unfortunately it's not enough for them to make the D. I just keep some hope in the back of my head.and we can just wait and see.Īnyways Heatblur already have documentation on MOST of the systems from the NAVAIR 01−F14AAD−1 document. Hopefully Heatblur might find a way to get the REST of the information from that document minus the chapter about the IRST. Not because of any export planes or anything like that. That's what's currently holding the NAVAIR 01−F14AAD−1A back from be declassifed. Why? Because the AN/AAS−42 Infrared Search and Track System became the Legion Pod which is made by Lockheed and is still used today by the government. The AN/AAS−42 Infrared Search and Track System. Today only 1 system from what I can tell in that document is still classified. At the time they separated that document BECAUSE most of that was classified. The NAVAIR 01−F14AAD−1 document is easily found on the net and details most of the aircraft except for those systems. which includes it's weapons systems, radar, IRST, LANTIRN, Electonic Warfare systems, etc. Or is the information just unavailable for other reasons? Ie just lost from archives or something?Īctually I've done some research and found the ONLY reason Heatblur can't make the F-14D yet is because of the document NAVAIR 01−F14AAD−1A. How would it be that such information pertaining to an F15E's radar and weapons or Hornets radar and weapons can be modeled when these aircraft are still operationally used, but F14 hasn't been for well over a decade? When the AN/AGP73 like F14's An/AGP71 had lots of technology derived from the Strike eagles AN/APG70 radar's digital components.:huh: Edited Jby csdigitaldesignį14D's been retired for 13 years. Search for NAVAIR 01−F14AAD−1 and you will see. You can also find the majority of it's systems very well documented all over the net. it's the IRST module that's keeping a sub manual for the F-14D classified. In fact almost all of the planes information is on the web publicly. It has nothing to do with exported A models. The D's capabilities has nothing to do with anything being classified. Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. unfortunately they need that document to be able to model the F-14D properly. we'll see if there's anything they can do about getting the OTHER information in the 1A manual that's not classified. I've been talking to Heatblur about the whole thing. it comes down to the AN/AAS−42 Infrared Search and Track System which evolved into the Lockheed Legion Pod which is still used by modern planes and IS classified. However it seems to me that it's not because most of the stuff in there anymore. One 2 weeks ago and another in the last 24 hrs.Īctually, there's a NAVAIR 01-F14AAD-1A document that is being held by the US Government and is classified still. They already lost 2 Tomcats this month to crashes. And thats all they talked about as the Tomcats retirement began, was keeping documents, manuals and parts under lock and key for all Blocks.Īs soon as all of Iran's Tomcats are INOP, that may change, but I doubt it, as they would try to procure parts. My father was an AE1 and maintained Tomcats for VF-101 and was deployed several times to maintain B and Ds during deployments in the 90s. It has nothing to do with reverse engineering, The D Tomcat's capabilities will remain classified because of the exported A Models. Their Tomcats were later Block As and had most of the changes introduced with the early Bs with Exception to the Engines and FCS Changes.ī. Theres no point withholding any A/B manuals, They have them already. ![]()
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