As far as I know, there isn’t many sources on the F-16 even testing the BOL pods, but the US definitely didn’t use them in service for the F-16, unlike for the F-15 and F-14. The F/A-18 was tested with them and should get them.
Dont think so, maps are not that big plus it cause additional drag and perminent extra weight.
Stick with Drop Tanks, you’ll be fine.
ARH only yes.
If you want to take the fuel of the drop tanks with significantly less drag than they have, yes. Though if you are going to jettison them immediately after making contact, no.
I’ll use them over externals for Sim
BOL pods are compatible with F-16C’s rails so test shouldnt be required.
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Meanwhile Yak-41 gets production variant armaments,radar and IRST that wasnt even tested on the plane itself.
Amazing…
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Yeah no
It had HMD in the stream you can literally see it
Given this is the case too I just realized, this F-15C that we have must have the AN/APG-63(V)1 and not the AN/APG-63 PSP, as the first JHCMS installed on a F-15C occurred in 2005 and all the existing US F-15Cs were upgraded to AN/APG-63(V)1s by 2001.
Hmm thats a good point there
Or they’ll just butcher it like they did with the F-15A, which should have TWS with the APG-63 PSP upgrade that it literally got at the same time as the countermeasures, yet it doesn’t have that radar upgrade in-game.
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For me, gaijin not ready AN/APG-63(V)3 AESA radar 3 years because advanced & powerful radar and great BVR
Personal, I think F-15C MSIP II from USA tech tree showcase in devstream fitted with AN/APG-63(V)1 radar
But for F-15A, gaijin can change new radar to AN/APG-63 PSP radar ?
Its not a psp radar wither way. Its an underperforming pre-psp radar with missing radar modes and capabilities
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how do we know its a APG 63? and not APG 70 on the c model
Uh, radar on F-15A it’s AN/APG-63 (pre-PSP) radar.
But gaijn can’t change radar for USAF F-15A ?
Chronologically its a franken plane.
Artificially nerfed pre-psp apg 63
Flares (which only came on MSIP 1985 on C models as As were given to sent to the national guard)
and missile from early 80s
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Realistically wouldn’t be. The APG-70 was pulled off of C-models well before the upgrades this one has
ah ok ty
but why did they have the apg 63 replace it with an apg 70 only to switch back to apg 63(1)
The last set of F-15Cs built has APG-70s from the factory. But the A2G features weren’t really necessary for USAF use and the radar was less reliable comparatively. Plus pulling them off the C-models meant they could be placed onto the E-models once that rolled out shortly after
The APG-70 was a APG-63 streamlined for reliability and had a few extra bells and whistles that dont help purebred fightercraft, the APG-63(V)1 took all the developments that the 70 and APG-63(V)2 made both software and reliability wise and installed it onto the base APG-63 frame for a far lower cost and its backwards compatible with existing APG-63s and PSPs.
TLDR it was cheaper and everyone, not just the US could get APG-70 performance or better out of their existing APG-63s.
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The radar is likely APG-63(V)1
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