Turkey’s Block 70 acquisition has also been cancelled in favour of developing a domestic upgrade that includes using Turkish AAMs instead of AIM-120 and AIM-9X. So TMLA wont be progressing further in the manner suggested by the document either.
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That explains why its been so hard to find it.
Yeah it got canned
Welp, I tried, six missiles it is.
Wonder whether Gaijin would implement it and PIDS at the same time if PoBIT struggles at its BR
lower its BR
Depends on the user and airframe. ALQ-254, ALQ-257, and ALR-69A are all available as radar threat warning systems.
ALR-69A has been bought as a drop-in replacement for National Guard F-16s but F-16CM are set to get the more comprehensive threat warning system through ALQ-257 IVEWS, starting in the next year or two. Looking at the IVEWS test airframes, it should be obvious if a particular US jet has it fitted or not in future.
ALQ-254 Viper Shield and ALQ-257 IVEWS are a full EW management system with ESM (RWR) and ECM. Viper Shield seems to be going strong for many export F-16Vs and new Block 70s, but IVEWS is also apparently cleared for export.
I want the F-16E/F
or seven
ANG F-16C’s have the TERMA PIDSU pylon
The US ANG PIDSU and EW core pylon configuration is the most advanced variant as both left- and right-hand pylons are equipped with three chaff/flare dispenser magazines. This was made possible by introducing a new compact variant of the Terma Digital Sequencer Switch which allows installation of the additional dispenser magazine. Once implemented all the existing and new ANG Terma-pylons will feature flare dispense and EW core pylons will even have all hardware for smart dispense of e.g. Expendable Active Decoys and multi-shot flares.
https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/2103659/contracts-for-mar-5-2020/
They have Elbit PAWS-2 sensors rather than AN/AAR-60;
TERMA PIDSU;
This contract provides for a pylon-based infrared missile warning system for the F-16 platform.
So seems they did modify the PIDSU with MWS which it has “Design provisions” for and since its Elbit getting the contract it should be similar to the PIDS+ pylon above with PAWS-2 fit.
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The inherent flaw with the PoBIT is that it just does not have the carrying capacity to be relevant. 6 missiles is far too little in a meta where you inevitably waste 2-4 anyway. This isn’t exactly something that can be rectified, as the F-16 is like this by design and the triple ejectors discussed earlier haven’t been realised. Other than that, it doesn’t have the flight model or sensors of aircraft like the Typhoon of course.
I’d argue the Block 50 is a better plane as it’ll likely sit a whole BR lower while having identical everything except for the radar. (And technically FM but the differences are very minimal for ARB)
Because the last one they added was a Block 50 and they likely felt the need to diversify a bit.
It doesn’t have 360 RWR, it also doesn’t have MAWS. The only War Thunder relevant upgrade the PoBIT brings over the regular F-16CM is the new AESA radar.
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I’m so glad we’re getting a new F-16C. It’s one of my favorite jets in the game.
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Don’t know, guess we will see when Dev opens. I noticed F/A-18F has the IRST21 pod in its dovbleg, so we can make a suggestion at a minimum once the dev opens.
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Can the PoBIT carry the silly cat-ear looking CFTs?
Yeah the IRST on superhornet may pave the way for arrival of legion