Sadge :(
If me and Dovre get our way, it will hopefully get better in the future and much more unique and fun to play.
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Thats a big IF
Maybe I’ll threaten them to release some classified documents if they don’t. (Joke)
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Well that would be a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
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AIM9L’s? Cmon now, just give it back the original ordinance, AIM9L/I.
Who’s even gonna play it otherwise? It’ll just get outshined by the F-5E FCU, and will feel like nothing more than your average SCU…
And please, there’s absolutely no need to add a completely unhistorical missile to it cough cough penguin cough cough. And if you’re going to as the only selling point, at least make it good instead of this, 2.5km lock range is laughable.
Just please, give it the 9L/I for gods sake.
If you have a problem with it having the penguin, you shouldn’t be saying it should have the AIM-9L/I. Because it never had it in real life. Gaijin just didn’t do their homework properly and now everybody is mad and confused for the wrong reasons.
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as long as it is F-5, it will still outshine those Subsonic AIM-9L carriers on 10.7-11.0
And it’s Norwegian. I think a lot of people are underestimating how many Norwegians will main this plane because of this reason. I am one of those people.
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What’s their reasoning for not giving it CCIP? That it doesn’t have a radar or TGP for rangefinding?
They realise A-10A(early) has CCIP without a radar or LRF, right?
What do they imagine the Norwegians installed a HUDWAC and RLG Inertial Measuring Unit for?
Here is the bug report my good friend Dovre sent that got rejected sadly.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/sfiLJozxfdxn
where does it say it can’t lock tanks?
Journal of Electronic Defense - Oct 1, 1994
Sierra Technologies, Inc. announced the completion of its work to upgrade F-5A/Bs for the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Sierra upgraded 15 aircraft with “F-16-similiar” equipment linked via a Mil-Std-1553B data bus to enable the aircraft to be used as lead-in trainers for F-16 pilots. Based on the company’s Tiger-PAWS upgrade package, enhancements included the integration of an F-16 Head Up Display Weapon Aiming Computer from GEC-Marconi Avionics, redesign of the throttle quadrant to allow Hands-on Throttle and Stick functions and rearrangement of the F-5s instrument panel to a configuration closer to the F-16’s. Sierra also added a Litton Guidance and Control LN-93 Ring Laser Gyro INS, a GEC Miniature Standard Central Air Data Computer, a new angle of attack system, and a video camera/recorder. Other team members on the program, which began with contract award in January 1991, included Clifton Instruments, Rosemount, Collins Avionics, Elmo and Sony Corp.
Contrary to what gaijin’s anonymous “Bug Reporting Manager #XYZ” said, the HUD does include a Weapon Aiming Computer
This is the brochure for the older F-16A HUDWAC that Marconi produced, which states:
Marconi HUDWAC brochures
https://ark-raa.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/documents/q0PVL194F3_1698822150.pdf
https://ark-raa.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/documents/7hclQVPkTM_1698822151.pdf
The F-16C/F-16A(MLU) HUDWAC in the F-5A(G) is an improved version made by Marconi and pictured in the brochures next to the screencapped text above
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Massive find
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You know what else is massive?
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11.0 with AIM-9L 😬
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Made a new ticket with the evidence from the HUDWAC brochures, since they closed all the other CCIP tickets:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/jkeHINX0G93g
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That’s all Gaijin in it, F-104S.ASA got bumped from 11.3 to 12.0 for having AIM-9L…
Probably won’t stay at that BR for long.
Time to see if Gaijin is truly committed to keeping their weapons “non-fiction”.
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Dont forget AJ168 as well
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