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Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation

THE F-14 TOMCAT SIMULATION "Launch the Ready-Five, Launch the Ready-Five." The catapult officer calls for full afterburner. 50,000 pounds of thrust spools behind you as your F-14 strains for release. Less than three seconds later your Tomcat screams through the air at 150 knots. You climb to meet your wingman, then head off to join the fight. Fleet Defender is the first flight simulator to accurately recreate carrier-based operations. Experience all the excitement of a catapult launch, realistic air-to-air combat and the challenge of landing on a pitching deck. You'll be drawn into the high-st

Release date
May 25, 2020
Platforms
Windows
Developer
MicroProse Software, Inc.
Publisher
Atari
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About Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation

THE F-14 TOMCAT SIMULATION "Launch the Ready-Five, Launch the Ready-Five." The catapult officer calls for full afterburner. 50,000 pounds of thrust spools behind you as your F-14 strains for release. Less than three seconds later your Tomcat screams through the air at 150 knots. You climb to meet your wingman, then head off to join the fight. Fleet Defender is the first flight simulator to accurately recreate carrier-based operations. Experience all the excitement of a catapult launch, realistic air-to-air combat and the challenge of landing on a pitching deck.

You'll be drawn into the high-stakes world of Navy's top guns. Start your career the same way as a real F-14 crew: training at Oceania Naval Air Station, Virginia, home of the Atlantic Fleet Tomcats. From there, you're bound for duty in the Arctic waters of Norway's North Capa or in the southern Mediterranean, of the Libyan cost. You'll need razor-sharp piloting skills to defeat hostile aircraft using state-of-the-art fighter tactics. Accurate cockpit representations. Realistic enemy AI.

New artificial intelligence is patterned after Soviet and Third world military doctrine. Expanded Player-Wingman interaction. As flight leader, a wide range of interactive commands allow you to exercise complete tactical control of your wingman. Terrain graphics. The latest 3-D terrain generating technology produces a vivid, detailed world based on digitized data from the U.S.G.S (United States Geological Survey) Strike packages.…

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★ 7.4/10GOG · 23 ratings
GOGLast checked November 4, 2026

Most helpful7

★ 5 / 5
I played the game way back when it first came out and missed a better half of the fun. Mostly because in Poland we relied…
★ 1 / 5
Probably not GoG's fault, but this game used to work under windows 10 and Dosbox, but recently most of the DosBox games are no longer…
★ 1 / 5
Most importantly the keyboard commands for throttle wouldn't work and it didnt recognize my joystick throttle. Sadly refunded.
★ 5 / 5
I think for the year, this is one of the BEST! Some sims cost more but this is OUTSTANDING! 4.0
★ 1 / 5
Tried it on WIN 10 and WIN 7. Doesnt work :( Dont buy this game.
★ 5 / 5
Thank you GOG for bringing this truly study sim of the F-14 Tomcat to modern pc systems or systems that can't run Dcs modules. This…

Most recent7

★ 5 / 5
I think for the year, this is one of the BEST! Some sims cost more but this is OUTSTANDING! 4.0
★ 1 / 5
Probably not GoG's fault, but this game used to work under windows 10 and Dosbox, but recently most of the DosBox games are no longer…
★ 1 / 5
Most importantly the keyboard commands for throttle wouldn't work and it didnt recognize my joystick throttle. Sadly refunded.
★ 5 / 5
Thank you GOG for bringing this truly study sim of the F-14 Tomcat to modern pc systems or systems that can't run Dcs modules. This…
★ 1 / 5
Tried it on WIN 10 and WIN 7. Doesnt work :( Dont buy this game.
★ 5 / 5
I played the game way back when it first came out and missed a better half of the fun. Mostly because in Poland we relied…

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