General Japanese & JASDF General Discussion

Currently, we only have this photo, but it is good enough to prove, which show up the time and the manufacturer. That’s what I got from him. I think we can just submit this one to let Gaijin decide, it almost cover everything we need.

It doesn’t show where 2 additional bombs attached on the plane

Also we don’t know what is this document, its name and covering what is needed for bug reporting.

And for real without additional data this number of 4 bombs can be just a mistake

Been trying to look for it but can’t find it, the proposed Type 87 AW or another SPAAG with missiles on it? I swear I remember seeing it but it never was adopted. Similar to Gepard 1A2?

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These two?

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I believe so. I don’t recognise the image (i saw a different one) but its the same concept, thank you!

maybe this [April Fools 2025] Type 27 TAFV - The JGSDF's Tactical Fortress?

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definitely not, but it looks cool (even if AF)

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That thing looking like something from one of the what if the Cold War never ended sci-fi shows where the nations of the Earth kept pumping money into insane projects that would have been canned in the late 90s. But they never worked as intended.
Patlabor 2: The Movie on Tumblr

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Patlabor <3

time for that indonesia swag
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“premium”

still cool tho

japan can get like 4 more anyhow


Even 1 more from indonesia

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I hope other versions will be tech tree

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forward RWR is wack

theres 3 version we could see in the research tree tbf, those two & the malaysian hawk 208

That could be very interesting, and is probably the most fitting range of variants for the techtree armament-wise since they’re all very distinct.

  • ID Hawk 53 with no radar and no missiles, only dumb bombs/rockets and the gunpod
  • ID Hawk 109 with nose FLIR and otherwise similar armament to Hawk 209, maybe with AIM-9P-5 to make the techtree one more unique.
  • MY Hawk 208 with radar, AIM-9L and AGM-84

That would even leave the Hawk 108 for an event vehicle in the future without taking away from the tree.

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