I do have this, which is from Air Force Legends #228 F-20A Tigershark (by Paul Metz), which was likely taken directly from either the Northrop archives or the author’s own collection from when he worked on the Tigershark program. This likely comes from earlier, probably 1983 at the latest
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TT variant when?
I mean, the only way to get a TT variant using an existing Tigershark would be Prototype 1, which would be laughable at best
:( could get the same plane
Not really how War thunder vehicles and premiums work my friend. Only viable option of getting “the same plane” would be an early and late variation, but there not enough differences in avionics or armament refuting the different time periods this plane existed in, regarding the “F-20A” represented ingame.
Best thing you could possibly get in terms of the Tigershark, would likely be an earlier prototype that would probably be called the F-5G ingame. You would get the standard single engine F-5 type of gameplay, but with no radar missiles, and only Aim-9Js/P4s. Would probably be a total of around 2/4/6 missiles. (Dont know about underwing stations in terms of carrying other sidewinders or the dual rail.) oh and no radar gunsight.
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Or a hypothetical future service model such as with the Yak-141. One with access to amraams.
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That would be an interesting addition I might personally enjoy seeing as an event option, however the Yak-141 was a strange aircraft in which different rules applied. It was the only option to fill a certain gap in the naval line for the USSR air TT, and they added things like guns and CMs that were only planned (basically they get special rules like the Ho-Ri and R2Y2 stuff). The F-20A was a fully fledged prototype, and although not the final one intended or fully finished, it is a different case in comparison to the Yak-141 in terms of how gaijin went about implementing and representing it ingame.
I would kill to see an interpretation of a fully finished 4th prototype as an event option someday.
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There are no rules, they made it up. It’s an arcade game.
I’m surprised no one reported the incorrect engine sound on F-20
There is F-404 in game (or, variant of it to be more precise. RM12 on Gripen), yet F-20 uses the sound from F-5s
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If it’s incorrect, maybe it’ll get fixed when they add hornets, as I bet they’d be willing to make a unique sound for it then.
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My bad… I misunderstood the post
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Alrighty folks, for those of you who said the F-20 as it is could potentially get AMRAAMs: REJOICE!
I was partly wrong! As it turns out, Tigershark 3 was planned to test AMRAAM integration following modifications made from 1986 through to 1987, where it would be fitted with the APG-67 ERR.
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Ohhhhhh. Nice! I wonder if they will ever consider bringing an event vehicle of a more advanced F-20 into game. With amraams of course. Name it the F-20C or something idk lol
Good find btw. Where did you find it?
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All of these types of pictures come from the book Air Force Legends #228: F-20 Tigershark, by Paul Metz.
Sadly, we can’t get a more advanced F-20, as none were actually built or finished. Proto 2/3 is the closest we ever got to a finished, production-level Tigershark (which is what we have in-game).
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When the current model gets the FM nerfed to realistic performance levels we might see something new.
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Does anyone have an information about F-20’s RWR?
Cause it feels weird that ingame F-5E has better RWR than F-20.
Been awhile since I looked at this, but I believe the F-5E uses a later RWR (used as an aggressor at a later date I presume). Incase I’m wrong I know just the man to clear this up, @Shin_Kazama
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Damn… With some joke, and a bit of jealousy as extra.
His nickname already gives me confidence about his opinion if he says something about F-20.
(Even if I didn’t consider any comments up there in this topic.)
He knows more about it than anyone else on this forum, he has that name for a reason after all :)
Apologies for such a late response, had a bit of a rough night at work and just got off.
Oooookay, so I don’t know if there’s actual concrete evidence of if the two full Tigershark prototypes (N3986B, proto 2 and N44671, proto 3) actually had the full RWR kit or not. All we really know are the proposed options Northrop had for the various production standards, as well as the fact that protos 2 and 3 did have a display in the cockpit.
Going off of Paul Metz’s book, the production standard set by prototypes 2 and 3 prior to 1986 (yeah, Tigershark history ends up getting way more complicated) indicates they would’ve had the ALR-46 RWR.
Prototype 4, 5, and the post-1986 F-20 production standard doesn’t list anything specific, so I imagine it would just carry over the same ALR-46 that the 1983/1984 production standard would.
Prototype 6 and the Air Defense production standard Tigersharks have listed either the ALR-46 or ALR-67. Interestingly though, I also saw the ALR-69 listed somewhere in the book in regards to either the post-1986 standard or Air Defense Tigershark.
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