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But , the Lightning would be destroying enemy planes before the F-14
On top of that, looking at a squadron basis ... a F-14 squadron would take longer to scramble than a Lightning squadron . Meaning, there'd be more Lightnings in the sky than F-14s
The F-14 can be loaded with AIM 54 Phoenix missiles, meaning it can engage multiple targets at a range of 140 km away(once hit a drone at 230 km away) as apposed to the Red Tops that can only engage at 12 km, with this said the F-14 would be engaging targets way before the Lightning
The F-14 can carry an assorted load of 8 missiles, meaning, there is no need to send dozens of Tomcats in the air
he'll need altitude before he can even think about firing any missiles,
if they launched a large scale raid you'd need entire squadrons of either aircraft
For the performance of the F-14. Well, the Lightning can be at 44,000 feet, direction and cruise in four minutes from call on a ground strip. The F-14 would be up in eight-nine minutes, after all it takes the F-14, with my crude working, three minutes-twenty seconds to reach 40,000 feet - that is if it can maintain a 30,000 minute climb rate, which it couldn't. So, I'd say about four minutes. Plus, on the bell it has to warm up and set up it's avionics, so being polite I'd say the F-14 is at 40,000 feet, direction and cruise in about eight-nine minutes, that's at least four minutes slower than the Lightning. That's okay, right? It's got the Phoenix to make up for that. But no, because the Lightning's recorded speed is Mach 2.3, that's around 26 miles per minute ...that means in the four minutes the Lightning has travelled over one hundred miles - more than the range of the Phoenix ... and Mach 2.3 isn't even the top speed of the Lightning.
How many planes are in a squadron, 24? if the case and you want to talk about numbers 24 Tomcats can take out roughly 192 bombers as apposed to the lightning taking out 48, and the Tomcat taking out the planes from 140km distances
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