I like that watery pattern.
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Thats the first time I see an AIM-9L/M on an Alpha Jet 👀
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looks like a 9L, could be an M tho need to zoom more in
Looks like Mike to me.
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that concludes the mike check
They should remove it’s 6x sidewinder loadout first, it only ever had 4.
Yes, I know that it has 6 positions to mount them in, but i have official documents claiming it only used 4 at a time. They simply swapped which pylons were wired for using said fuel tanks as far as i can tell.
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if it can mount 6 and use then it should be fine, the option is there to have 4 or 6
Personally I mount 4 cause i like a more historical look n its cool
Shouldn’t the F-15JM also only have 4x ARH amd 4x IR loadout then? I have never seen a Japanese F-15 carrying AMRAAMs on the wing pylons. It’s always a mix of 4x AAM-4 on the fuselage and 2x AAM-3 + 2x AAM-5 on the wings.
Japan does have the LAU-128 rails necessary for them, as well as the necessary wiring to use AMRAAM. The AMRAAMs are just not used on the F-15Js operationally in favor of domestic missiles, which can’t be used on the wing mounted rails.
The only issue I’d really see with AMRAAM on the F-15J is that it’s the A variant, when Japan had the B variant instead. This is pretty weird considering there’s already the B variant in game, and they’re functionally identical to the A variant so it wouldn’t make a BR difference either.
I have seen x4 AAM-4 + x2 AIM-120 + x2 AAM-3/5 in a photograph somewhere I forgot where I seen it
Are you sure that there was this photo? As I know here isn’t any at the net but it is hard to say, I might miss it
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another view of the mg port in the Fuji T-1
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Correct
If the information in this book is accurate, at least one Kikka did have armament installed:
Says the allies discovered an interceptor model of the Kikka in development, with two 30mm cannons.
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that 1 man who said no kikka had weapons wont like this
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Unfortunately it’s not correct that the fighter model of Kikka was being constructed at the end of the war. The description in this book is rather vague and doesn’t really specifically claim such a thing either.
The state of each Kikka under assembly by Nakajima at the end of the war is known. The only variant construction underway was the prototyping of the two-seater training model. For this, two unfinished planes #6 and #7 were sent to the Kūgishō for conversion on July 8th, 1945.
(from 橘花は翔んだ)
The rest were special attack planes or strength testers and none had gun armament provisions, this can also be seen by the many photos of the Koizumi factory taken after the end of the war.
The planning of the fighter model of the Kikka only started around May 12th, 1945, and at the end of the war various different ideas on the design of the plane were still being considered. There was no actual construction work done. Furthermore, the engine is the Ne-20 Kai, not the much larger and more powerful Ne-130 or Ne-330. The information that Kikka’s fighter model could be equipped with the latter engines seems to be a “what-if” speculation.
(from 知られざる軍用機開発 下巻)
I believe that the erroneous description that the Allies discovered several planes of advanced models of Kikka is most likely a slight misinterpretation or mistranslation of this excerpt from Robert C. Mikesh’s 1979 book on the Kikka (which is very good):
(from Monogram Close-Up 19: Kikka)
It’s true that there were variants under development, but only two-seat trainers were actually being constructed.
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Hmm, that’s disappointing. This was the source quoted by wikipedia so I had to find this book to find out.
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