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Nice, that would be cool. Imagine if we could take 2 (just a guess) AIM-26A and replace the gun with an AIR-2 for triple nuclear combo
Having the F-106 defending with nuclear air to air weapons at very high altitude and speed for the time (remember, this is before ICBM) was probably the reason why it never saw any action
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No proxy fuze is the missile’s main issue but otherwise it’s actually quite good. It’s not like the AIM-9s at the same BR have good countermeasure resistance.
Flight performance is excellent as well compared to the AIM-9, just with slightly shorter range which is why the Falcons have a poor reputation (they were fired out of envelope)
The other issue was the four second spool up time though I doubt that will be modelled properly.
In fact since Gaijin just took the maximum number from the AIM-26 SMC for its overload then with the same process they’d have a roughly 42g overload
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Hopefully this means we’ll get the rest of the Century Series eventually.
I was so looking forward to my high altitude interceptor that flies at Mach 3 jesus😭😭😭
but a very good addition too
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And thankfully so. When nuclear bombings are the topic, nothing happening is a great success.
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guess which plane have first flight same year as f-106?
THE most f sharky plane ever made ;] and last 1 which iam waiting for in wt
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Ima be honest, I was hoping for a British event plane since England’s last event plane was in 2018.
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hf24 2025
Jaguar IS 2024
Bucc S1 2021
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keep the high tier summer air event streak going, this one for summer 2026
Su-25BM, F-14A IRIAF, F-106A, then XF8U-3
They quite literally had the most recent event aircraft lol
Ah right, forgot about that plane. Its so dogwater that I don’t think anyone really talks about it lol
Yeah, that was pretty bombastic, I honestly wonder if the guy wasn’t just being sarcastic there. There’s other sources on the same website that say F-106 pilots assumed any mission where they launched a Genie would be a one-way trip, that even the break turns they’d trained couldn’t guarantee they’d escape the shockwave and would have to “surf” it instead. It’s pretty obvious why they never actually did a full-up test of a Genie, ever. (An F-89 did fire one live, but it wasn’t at a drone target, it was just aimed at a point in space 17 km away, well outside any plausible combat range, but probably safer that way.) Maximum range of 10 km vs a closing target, so probably closer than that, 12 seconds or less til detonation to get pointed away… likely at least a pilot kill at 1 km away or so… yeah.
Finally another Century Series fighter! Any plans for a TT version of this? And is the AIM-4 the one missile on the Swiss Mirage?
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swiss mirage has completely different AIM-26
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Swiss one has much better because it has a proximity fuse, the falcons this one will get will not have a prox fuse
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this is its entire roster except the gun
I have a thread on the falcon if you need the info on it
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I doubt it’ll get its 40Gs of maneuverability unfortunately. Unless Gaijin decides to be nice because it probably needs the 40Gs to actually hit a target lol