Taiwan also uses f16b’s. Gaijin doesn’t seem to like the B model.
Gaijin:
“A, C, D, E, F, G…”
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Isn’t Taiwan using an upgraded F-16V?
Most American B models are trainer aircraft and not combat. The A is a single-seat fighter, the B a dual-seat trainer, the C another single-seat, and often by the D it would be another trainer but the aircraft has evolved to a multirole so the extra seat is used for training but also for a mission officer. The vast majority of American jets follow this rule, with heavy fighters like the F-4 and F-14 that were designed around radar missile interception (thereby always needing 2 seats) being exceptions.
While these trainers are almost always combat capable in theory they’re not really designed for it and are almost always designed and operated concurrently with the As, so despite having a higher letter they’re not more capable (or less for that matter) in any way. So adding them doesn’t make sense in most situations, being simply a waste of development resources that could be much better spent elsewhere.
You’re currently wrong on this,…
The J8F and F4F KWS are 13.3 only because of their Flight capability, same goes with advanced AV-8’s → those are late 3rd gen aircrafts, not early 4th alike F-16A’s,…
Btw, as for F-16C’s the upgrades to AIM-120’s we’re discussing doesn’t only bring 2xAIM-120’s ability, but 6 at best,… making them completely similar to the F-16C variant (which is 13.7)
Therefore,… any AIM-120A/B for any F-16 ADF or MLU, should result in a BR bump to 13.7.
And taking into account the ability of the AIM-120C-5 you’re asking for most of those aircraft (notably the Italian ADF), this would mean a new BR of 14.0
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They’re actually upgrading their block 20’s to block 70 standards, but they still have the A engine. They’re also getting some proper block 70’s along with them.
Gaijin has added a lot of trainers, and an aircraft being “combat capable” has never actually mattered.
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