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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It looks really good!
With any luck, it passes!
AAM-4C super duper duper extra low-drag fins real and true
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Thing looks like SRAAM with a radar seeker head.
Is 4c already out🥳，I thought they put all their effort on JNAAM🤔
Nah he was making a joke. JNAAM has been dead for a while, japan is working on the AAM-6 slated for GCAP though (And also an AAM-5C upgrade sometime in the next few years).
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man i kinda wish JNAAM got some dummy made or something…
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Prototyping was done from 2018-2022, so I think there was.
They were intended for the F-35, and we do now have Meteor integration for the F-35 so I’d say JNAAM could be a very interesting missile to make British and Japanese F-35s more unique.
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As I know we don’t have sources that it was made as fully built prototype (and tbh that abything was build but probably there was)
they all kinda just look like renders but I wanna believe 😭
visually, the only difference between meteor and JNAAM is the length of the seeker (ofc)
doesn’t match the proportions of the render :(
also google reverse search says it’s a meteor
shoulda done that first…
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it’s over… JNAAM has fallen…
Would Jnaam only be integrated for the f-35, or would it also have been on stuff like f-15? Also does it get double pylons?
It is died and not really known what should take it
The missile in the F-35 is a normal Meteor. Sadly I don’t think JNAAM was ever fitted (we don’t even have clear confirmation of a full prototype missile)
We don’t what other aircraft would use it. The only things we know about it is that it was meant to fit the F-35s weapons bay, most likely fitting two of them but that’s just an assumption based on the amount of normal Meteors it could carry.
Theres some other stuff somewhere that talks about the pilot testimony more directly, but I can’t find it atm.
Now, personally, I do think it’s a tad unlikely that the XAAM-4 was tested on the EJ Kai, given that all verified first hand information we have talks about it’s testing being on the F-15J.
However there was a large amount of XAAM-4s produced, so it’s possible it could’ve been done after initial testing. There were atleast 27 XAAM-4s produced, as It was stated to be over double the amount of XAAM-5s, which there were 13 of iirc; Meanwhile there were only 25 XAAM-4s used for the initial testing of the missile. This leaves atleast 2 units which potentially could’ve been tested on the F-4EJ Kai, even if the initial development testing was done on the F-15J.
So, overall, while I think I do think it’s more likely then not that the XAAM-4 wasn’t tested on it, there is definitely evidence, and potential, for it to have been.
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