Don’t get me wrong, I am a hard core F-14 fan and as mater of fact F-14B vs F-15C in WVR arena is my favourite topic. I have spoken to some F-14 pilots and when it comes compeering the Tomcat with F-18’s or F-16’s they speak whit certainty that they can come out on top whit them quite easily (for example F-16 or F-18’s performance suffers notably when they are loaded with external stores, and if they are clean, that they can run them out of fuel quite quickly), but when they speak about F-15’s … well … they are like the RIO form the article. I know this is not the place to talk about this (by the way great work Nizmo) but from what I know I think that F-14 would dominate at altitude up to 10000 ft and at airspeed up to 350 kts and only in the horizontal plane. Every other situation goes in to F-15’s favour, or am I wrong? From what I know F-15 can out accelerate, out climb, has a higher T/W ratio, beater sustained turn performance at all altitudes. On the other side F-14 has a higher instantaneous turn rate, and superior low speed handling, higher AoA, the variable swing wings help allot and it also benefits from a lifting body to compensate for the lack of adequate trust. I understand quite well that if you fight the F-15’s fight you’re toasted and the other way around. It’s like you sad a “skilled” F-14 pilot won’t have trouble fighting an F-15, but in my opinion a skilled pilot in A-4, F-5 or F-4 won’t have also trouble fighting any of the 4 gen. fighters, of course if they are flown by an average Joe. Yes pilot makes 90% of the plane, but I am interested more about the performance of the two jets regardless of the pilot skill. I see F-14B vs F-15C similar like F-86F vs MiG-15bis. There is not enough info available on the net about F-14 manoeuvrability. I guess it is still classified. I cant seem to find nothing more than a mere speculation on what is the F-14’s turn rate at slow/high speed, and low/high altitude. I read once on some forum that the turn rate is comparable to a F-16’s. So the best thing we have at the moment are the formal F-14 pilots experiences and stories, and some civilian EM charts that some guys understands (but not me :D). So… when a F-14 pilot is like… F-15 has a great engine, out of this world t/w ratio, great acceleration, lighter weight, 9G airframe, thank god they are on our side , myself being a long time F-14 fan-boy, am like Whaaaat … but … did he forgot to hit the brakes so the F-15 could fly by… did he spoke with his colleagues form VF-84 on how they once splash the Zeros… :D, and then I get like this :shock: