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From: zam@athena.mit.edu (Nor Aazizam Mohd Aasif)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-14 vs F-15
Keywords: Tomcats, Eagles, which one is better?
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.034926.3237@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 03:49:26 GMT
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From: zam@athena.mit.edu (Nor Aazizam Mohd Aasif)
In article <1991Jan22.014043.18325@cbnews.att.com> newave!john@uunet.UU.NET (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>> From: zam@athena.mit.edu (Nor Aazizam Mohd Aasif)
>>
>> My friend and I were discussing about the US jet fighters and we finally
>> came down to debating whether the F-14 is better than the F-15(E).
>
> You are comparing apples and oranges.  The F-14 is a fleet defence plane.
> Its job is to make sure that there is no threat to a carrier within its
> sphere of operation.  These threats would be incoming aircraft.


	The comparison that I had in mind is between the F-14 and the
F-15C, and my stating the F-15E in the original article was due to an
error on my part.  Based solely on memory, I was not sure which one is
the one-seater F-15 which resembles the F-14, F-15C or F-15E, and
obviously I chose the wrong one.  I was not being specific enough in
my original article and let me state here that I was comparing the two
jet fighters, F-14 and F-15C based on their air-to-air combat ability.


> You cannot compare these two rolls.  Would you want an F-15 on a carrier?
> The landing gear would not survive the first carrier landing.  If you
> compare a F-15C (ie, not the Strike Eagle) to a F-14 and ignore the
> differences in carrier vrs land based, you will have a fairly even match.
> Differences are mainly nits, such as the F-15 having slightly better thrust
> to weight ratio.  The F-15 carries AMRAAM, whereas F-14 has the Pheonix.
> Both have shorter range missiles and small cannons.

	
	I was neglecting the fact that the F-14 is carrier-based while
the F-15C is land-based.  Let's assume the two jets have to slug it
out in a dogfight, which jet would you like to be in?  Since the two
jets both are equipped with AIM-7, and AIM-9, I would say the only
difference is the AMRAAM and AIM-54.  My reason for choosing the F-14
is the AIM-54 which I believe is the best air-to-air missile available
in the world today.  Is this a good enough reason to justify my choice
of F-14 over F-15C?


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