WI: Air Force F-14 and Navy F-15

NothingNow

Banned
and what workshare does the F-14 offer the UK or other EU nations for european orders ?
It'd have to have a separate production line at least, which kills some of the price and time advantage there.

which RR or Snecma engine does it integrate ...

Probably the Mk.202 Spey, since that'd fit in more or less the same area a TF30 would. Unless there's a Snecma M53 variant that could be made to fit. It's a much more compact and reliable engine, and would work better than the TF30, even if it is significantly shorter, and has about 15% less thrust at full afterburner.
 
BTW, ski jump carriers are grossly inferior. They are for navies that cannot afford cats or lack the know how to develop them. Nobody in their right mind chooses a ski jump carrier when catapults are a viable option.

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Or for navies that are treated as a way for politicians to funnel money into the right constituencies and support multi-national corporations...
 

Delta Force

Banned
sure those would be great, but the navies acquisition program is going to be a catapult first and craft for the smaller carriers second. In out time line the midway class were stuck with the F-4 well into the 80s when the f-18 became available. Its going to be more trouble than its worth to make the f-15 a catapult carrier plane and the navy isn't going to buy a plane that benefits its smaller ships at the expense of the fleets mainstay.

A Navy F-15 would have better performance and payload than the F/A-18, and could use the same engines as the F-14. In a scenario in which the F-14 or F-15 is selected as the universal fighter for the United States military, there wouldn't be a choice between the two either, although the Navy would likely field an interceptor model.

and what workshare does the F-14 offer the UK or other EU nations for european orders ?

which RR or Snecma engine does it integrate ...

ignoring the political dimension turns it from WI into " 'Murica f**k yeah" wank fodder or ASB ...

The Rolls-Royce Spey (license produced as the Allison TF41) would be an option.
 
yea but as we've said the F-15 can't be made compatible with the carriers the navy already has, which makes it very unlikely to be selected as a multi service fighter. The Navy needs fighters for its big carriers, the little carriers will get what ever the big ships need.
 
Given that the VFX spec demanded that the aircraft defeat the mig 17/17/21 in close combat what capability does the F 14 lack that the F 15 would provide?
 

Delta Force

Banned
Given that the VFX spec demanded that the aircraft defeat the mig 17/17/21 in close combat what capability does the F 14 lack that the F 15 would provide?

The F-15 has a higher maximum g-load rating (9 gees compared to 6.5 for the F-14), a higher thrust to weight ratio, and lower wing loading. It's also less expensive for the fighter/bomber role since it is a more simple design.
 
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