@Sovengardian it is more than common that war thunder forum users will say “this is fine, you’s just bad” while not even playing the vehicle in question.
Huh? No? AMRAAM didn’t enter service a decades later.
the amraam was being developed ten years before the block 10 took flight and the radar was made to be able to guide ARHs before going pitbull. Besides, aircraft go under modernization programs. If the F-4E historically launched aim7p’s and aim9m’s newer than the aircraft itself why wouldn’t a new aircraft test launch and adapt a missile system older than it? The game does not show real/historical weapon loadouts. Even the MiG21 can launch r27er’s because it did in real life, yet in game only the Bison can and only the r27r. It’s a matter of balance, because making dynamic BR’s is stupid and tedious. Imagine a gun only f-4e at 10.0, that thing is like 80 percent of a MiG19PT, it can outdogfight f-5s at slow speed and turn inside mig23s. Then an F-4E with four aim9p’s and four aim9m’s at 12.3, does it make any sense?
It didn’t have DL channels. I can launch AMRAAMs with F15C pre MSIP but it wasn’t designed for it.
F16As that under gone modernisation are not F16A block 10 either, mostly block 15 and Taiwanese F16A block 20 was built to MLU standard anyway. Block 10 never received any of that. Neither was it ever able to carry AMRAAMs cause a weapon need to be tested before service, cause F16 block 15 has different FM to block 10.