Why did GAIJIN choose a J-8F that cannot fire semi-active radar missiles among so many improved J-8 models? The J-8H, J-8IIM, etc. are all Doppler radars that can fire semi-active radar missiles such as PL11 or R27ER, giving the J-8F this kind of active radar missiles, but not giving corresponding weapons, making him a deformed child in the top aircraft. The airframe performance is inferior to other aircraft, missiles are useless except PL8 and PL5B, and they are often deceived by thermal decoy.
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They thought the J-8F could fire PL-11, it could not. This was reported on the dev server and so it came to live without them. It will likely receive PL-12 in the future.
I don’t believe in what the gaijin promises of a future, and for now, the J-8F is indeed one of the worst top-of-the-line vehicles of War Thunder
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lol It’s 11.7, and among the best 11.7s in the game.
China also has the best overall F-16 in the game.
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You can look at the other 11.7 aircraft, the F14A has the Phoenix and the AIM7F. The F4 EJK, with APG66, AIM7F, AIM9L, in terms of those two aircraft, the J-8F is not excellent。And the F16A MLU, seriously, I don’t really like it, and it’s not the best F16A, the best should be the F16AJ, something that doesn’t exist on this planet
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So why can even the F16AJ, which is not in reality, be issued to the Japanese technology tree, and not a PL11 can be issued to the J-8F for the transition? I don’t know why it’s so differentiated
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The F-16AJ is quite literally one of the Block 15 prototypes, it was actually built.
On top of that, IR missiles have been the meta all this year.
Radar missiles only keep people low, but IR missiles do the heavy lifting of getting frags.
Especially Python 3.
It’s a block 15, the AJ and Netz beat it out technically speaking, either way, I wouldn’t use any F-16 as a metric for how good a nation is, I alreqdy voiced my opinion on that in another thread, but that’s aside the point.
J-8F performs fine as is, Flight performance is reasonably meta, would it be better off with a SARH? Maybe, depends on what you value in kit, yeah they aren’t a 1 tap flare-away like all of the “Gaijin IRs” as I’l dub them, but they would perform a lot like the current top sparrows which are slow, lack datalink, and give off RWR, so I fail to see how the addition of a mediocre SARH missile would help it.
AJ just exists on Paper
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Then how does the Block 15 exist?
Cause the F-16AJ we have is the Block 15 prototype.
Technically that would be America with the ADF.
Yeah and it has NO BUISNESS being at 11.7 while kfir c7 and kurnass 2000 sit at 11.3 with python 3’s
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j8 with r27er would be godsend
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Seems fine to me, and to be quite honest outperforms the Kfir C.7 and Kurnass 2000. No reason to lower it to 11.3. Would be infinitely uptiered regardless.
“The J-8F is known to carry the PL-12 BVRAAMs (beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles), but adding them to the game would mean the J-8F has a significant advantage over all opponents on the battlefield. Our team also had the idea to equip the fighter with PL-11 missiles as a placeholder, but such missiles could not be used on the J-8F due to lack of the target illumination radar. Therefore, we decided to introduce a set of 6 PL-8 missiles for the J-8F, which make the aircraft an excellent duellist at medium and close distances. The PL-12 missiles, same as other medium-range active seeker missiles for fighters of other game nations, will appear in War Thunder at the same time in one of the future game updates.”
[Development] J-8F jet fighter and future plans on the BVRAAMs - News - War Thunder.
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Get the document that AJ exists. The AJ was just an aircraft that was ‘proposed’ in a Japanese fighter project proposal and was never built. The AJ that exists in War Thunder is Gaijin’s delusion.
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The prototype was cited previously, but I didn’t write down the prototype designation.
It was an early Block 15 test with the new radar & Aim-7s.
No change to elevator at that stage of prototyping.
Well it is good that china has the F16 MLU in the end, just much a chinese vehicle as the J-8F, you can always use that one
Adding a Taiwanese jet onto the China tree is only slightly politcal. Im sure no one will take offence to it
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F-16.net - The ultimate F-16, F-35 and F-22 reference This is the F-16AJ prototype claimed in the War Thunder forums. This aircraft is just a YF-16 tested with armaments.
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