Gaijin gunna ban us oh nooooo
Was ej Kai ever upgraded to fire amraam/aam4?
No (physically not possible to fit, especially without extensive modifications like F-4F KWS-LV).
According to some sources; one ADTW was - but generally the answer is no.
What radar would that testbed get? I assume the original f-16 radar isn’t amraam compatible
Take a shot anytime someone says “classified documents leak” when it was a nothingburger, and you’d die of alcohol poisoning
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Standard no, it has been claimed it was tested with AAM-4 but we only have two magazines stating such, and the testimony of a testpilot from the ADTW squadron.
The EJ Kai’s standard missile setup for air to air intercept is 4 AAM-3’s and 4 AIM-7M’s.
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maybe it should get its aam3s and be moved up to 12.7/13.0
The issue is not about this, the issue was from another user claiming their source to be from still classified flight manuals.
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Oh, yet nothing was actually posted if i remember
i think i hope
pls dont be
Nothing was posted other than pics.
For now.
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Oh no I dropped some more again, I am such a klutz.
Manual on how to make ur own RF-4E
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Still spoke about information supposedly from a classified document, and also mentioned what is not in the document, which is still breaking classification. You can’t have a classified document that says the US are nuking Guam and then say “This document definitely doesn’t say the US is nuking Guam”
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brb making my own F-4EJ at home
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Jokes aside this is pretty cool, and I WILL be making some of these.
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Ah darn. Still, better than nothing.
I am not sure about the Radars fitted on the ADTW, their weapon avionics might have been upgraded or adapted for testing or using AAM-4’s.
Although it’s possible that a standard EJ Kai is capable of using the AAM-4 but the main drawback is from what we know that the Radar fitted on the EJ Kai lacks any form of datalink capability with ARH missiles.
As far I know off from looking at the visual modifications and changes to the EJ Kai 431from the ADTW squadron.
That thing only has been retrofitted to test and use GPS Datalink systems / weaponry.
Long story short, even if the EJ Kai could use the AAM-4 it won’t be much more useful than a sparrow because it can’t have datalink with multiple missiles.
Although this is from my observation regarding my current knowledge on the EJ Kai and its avionics from magazines, public displays along with a heavy dose of scouring the internet for news or forum pages showcasing the EJ Kai.
Take my information with a grain of salt and I suggest you to do your own research too, to find your conclusion.
And maybe in the future more will come to light about the EJ Kai.
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Despite we have “some sources” it is too doubtful that this AAM-4 was tested and without more sources with more data (especially from JASDF) it can be said that F-4EJ Kai never get AAM-4 because of no photo or official data
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Look what time it is, it’s Xeno throws another AAM-4 bug report up time.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/77Bwjvfg7ULh
(Hopefully this time it gets passed, this one contains a lot more properly flushed out information than my last 2)
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