Yeah you could see “120D” on the missiles as well as the slightly different design over the Cs.
When the trailer was going by fast I was like “What’s that missile.”
Then I was like “That’s not 120C… Oh, there’s the 120D text on it.”
It is pretty much the worst airframe they could have chosen as an upgrade. They really want to milk those 400k RP GE boosters with the most obscure variants they could find.
Will we able to see the Triple Missile Launcher Adapters in games for the new F16?
It seems like the things do exist which proved by the armed sales contract US sign with Türkiye (Link1)
and there is a patent about the adaptor worked like TMLA do exist and it is possibly already become true according to that they did sign a contract to buy it (Page 6 FIG. 2C in the Link 2)
Link 1: Federal Register :: Arms Sales Notification
Link 2: US10989497B2 - Multi-mission munition adapter - Google Patents
These links have no classified document in it and its public available pls dont report :))
I don’t think so. I am pretty sure someone already confirmed it can only carry 6 missiles total.
They’re going to add the harrier with aim120D before f15ex lol
i mean it is possible to mount 10-12 missile on it with the adaptors i just mention tho no one really did it currently since the contract with the turkey havent complete?
I don’t know anything about the hypothetical triple rail but if it hasn’t been seen in service or at the very least as a test platform on a US aircraft, I don’t think they will add it.
its sad i guess it’d def means a lot that f16 got it since it only have 6 missiles currently and most of its enemy will have 6-12 missiles
these were for f-21 if i am correct.
the project died with the triple rail aim120.
No it didnt since the contract that US signed with Türkiye did mention about it
Federal Register :: Arms Sales Notification
so turkey should get it ?
no, so US should get it because technical compatibility (plus you know, making both parts)
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im not really sure if they received them yet but at least we can know that such a thing did exist tho
Cannot find a single image of a triple AMRAAM rail.
yeah sadly no fleet using it irl recently
for F-16 iirc only India has it
not US F-16
The intent of the Block 7X upgrades was to get around a moratorium (around current tech) and provide cover to Taiwan getting backported 4.5++ / 5th gen avionics (similar to the original Block 20 airframes basically just being block -25 avionics in a Block -15 Airframe ) preventing their participation in some programs.
But it mostly depends on configuration, Block 7x (upgrade Kit applied to existing Airframes + Service Life Exertion Program to extend to a 12,000 hours Service life)/ F-16V (newbuild airframe) & PoBIT (USAF / ANG effort to bring all Airframes to a common standard).
The RWR for a block 70 should be the ALR-69A (V), which is an improvement over the assorted prior systems by yet further being digital and better processors;
ALR-49,-56, -56M (Block 60), -64 & -65, baseline -69, -74 ( Joint service upgrade to the baseline -69 receivers to account for lack of effort transferring the -69 from the F-4G causing issues) & -87 (Swiss specific)
MAWS could either be flush surface mounted components, as in the AAR-57 (similar to the A-10C blisters) or provided though other systems like the PIDSU.
It’s these rails mounted to a novel adapter based on a TER-9A;
Martin Engineering
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So how capable is ALR-69A?
I suppose it should cover C-J band but with the same blind spots the ALR-56M has
Regardless, it will probably suck for a patch, and then receive AIM-9X in the next one instead of a BR decrease is my guess.
If it gets the Triple rail, it will at least be competent, wherever it sits.
Even J-10C is fine, just not special.
The big ticket theoretical upgrade is that it should be able to generate GPS coordinates and provide handoff to strike / sensor systems and over the datalink to anything that will take them, if it gets a sufficient quantity of spikes over time it can use to reverse triangulate(known bearing of arrival, and own-ship location / movement) an emitter.
So in a sense it means that having a search radar ping a C-130H a few times gets it a JDAM, or counter-batteried (Link-16 integration) in short order as a response.
It’s also worth considering that the AAR-47 (MAWS) & AVR-2 (LWS) already has a fires-locator functionality too so it wouldn’t be that hard to tie them into one another and produce a proper wideband multi-spectral target correlation capability either(similar to the F-35’s AAQ-37 ), and so would cover off the Laser & IR missile threats, also as a CCD the MAWS may well also be able to provide an IR image at detection that could assist with classifying a threat as well.