The in-game Yak-141 is incapable of firing anything because it’s pixels on a screen. Still has R-27. None of the aforementioned points were really points. Every “reason” for not adding AMRAAM’s to the F-20 is negated by the fact that the Yak-141 exists. Premium or not, does not matter. The F-5C is literally in the same family tree and has a-historical flare / chaff pods.
Crying about whether or not you WANT it to come with AMRAAM’s does not dismiss the fact that Gaijin could simply add them at any point and it wouldn’t be an outlandish decision on their part. Not compared to anything else.
Yeah, the manual lacking definitive info on weapons carriage is disappointing but also understandable, seeing as it was primarily used by Northrop and foreign test pilots who were either demonstrating the aircraft or doing test flights/evaluations.
Weaponry wasn’t as important as takeoff/landing procedures, flight envelopes, etc
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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).
