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Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation

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2.3/5

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2.3

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Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation
Description
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 mee...
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2.3/5

( 6 Reviews )

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1994, MicroProse Software, Inc., ...
System requirements
Windows 7, 1.0 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 100 MB available space...
Description
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. Each mission requires you to integrate your F-14 with a variety of modern naval aircraft.
  • New enemy aircraft. Face the latest in Soviet fighter technology, the Su-27 and MiG-31. Use your Tomcat to hunt down "Bears", "Badgers" and "Backfires".
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System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'1994-04-18T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
291 MB

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Posted on: May 25, 2020

mnietek

Games: 548 Reviews: 80

A bit dated but for its day a great sim

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 mostly on pirated copies without any manual and so on. So I used the game as a simple "fly and shoot" type of sim. And this game is so much more. If you dig into the manual you'll learn about the AWG-9 radar operation, you'll learn of the importance of leader-wingman cooperation and will use the game as it was meant to be - a pretty realistic, for it's time, simulator of a interceptor pair - a weapon platform. True, the graphics can look a bit dated and the flight mechanics are not up to speed with modern Flight Simulator or even good old Sturmovik but remember that this game is over 25 years old. But it's still enjoyable for simulator fans and it's worth to give it a try. Especially if you have a chance to get it with a healthy discount ;-)


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Posted on: February 17, 2025

ryansw

Verified owner

Games: 424 Reviews: 34

No Longer works

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 functional under windows 10 making a lot of GoG's library non functional. Sad as you'd hope they'd be on top of this.


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Posted on: March 5, 2022

thomasj109

Verified owner

Games: 82 Reviews: 1

Not all keyboard commands work on win 10

Most importantly the keyboard commands for throttle wouldn't work and it didnt recognize my joystick throttle. Sadly refunded.


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Posted on: February 7, 2022

mandjare06

Games: 9 Reviews: 1

Study-Sim in a complete package!

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 GOG package is the most actual version 2.0 /Gold and has everything with it... all manuals, an perfect working installer and also an launcher to adjust some settings like the sound settings right from the start. It's working absolutely flawless, also the joysticks (no problem if this is a FCS or CH or TM) are ready to work with all the buttons you need. If not, just look inside the DosBox config file and adjust as you need it. For me Fleet Defender is still on of the few COMPLETE Sim packages beside Falcon, Tornado and European Air War. The content of Fleet Defender is huge and till today thousands of hours of playability is provided with this GOG release. Launch the ready 5, now!


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Posted on: August 12, 2025

77sunsetA10

Verified owner

Games: 6 Reviews: 2

Fleet Defender : THE F-14 Simulation

I think for the year, this is one of the BEST! Some sims cost more but this is OUTSTANDING! 4.0


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