“Similarly, four AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles carried in semisubmerged fashion on ejector-launchers under the F-16XL fuselage produced a carriage drag reduction of 70 percent when compared to the drag produced by the same number of AMRAAMs mounted on conventional underwing pylons.”
You cannot make the “carriage drag reduction of 70 percent” conclusion if they didn’t test on the same plane. I also have flight test logs and a loadout table to support the claim that the F-16 XL-1 can mount two more AMRAAMs under its wing
You missed the Intended in your quote there. Isn’t that quite a double standard to state that all missing features I stated are "wrong; those are all things that the F-16XL-2 had, while using the same Intended to validate the four AIM-120 mounts and the APG-68 on the F-16XL?
and to figure that out you dont need to be able to carry 4 AMRAAMs under the wings
you can figure that out by looking at the drag that they produce on a normal F-16
that dosent mean that the F-16XL is able to carry underwing AMRAAMs
The loadout table only said one AMRAAM on each wing.
There are still Flight test logs and loadout tables supporting my claim, and no, there was no such thing as AMRAAMs mount on normal F-16 in 1983-1985. Even those on the F-16XL were just model mockup. There was no missile, dedicated AMRAAMs mount or launching mechanism. The loadout of the F-16A in the competitive flight test was just 4 AIM-9s.
Source:F-16XL Demonstrates New Capabilities in Flight Test at Edwards Air Force Base
Here are the respective flight log and loadout table. A/A is the default 6-missile loadout. Just doing name matching here, like the “12 Mk-82” loadout. Both the table and log stated that it is 12 Mk-82 bombs + the default missile loadout but the A/A part is omitted from the name.
The extra pair of AMRAAMs mounted on the wings is missing. Noticed that the Configuration in the F-16XL Flight-Test Logs and the Loading Title are the same.
Every loadout, besides the extra AMRAAM, can be clearly traced back to its test-flight record in the Test Store Loading table from the F-16XL Flight-Test Logs(p. 309-333) from the Elegance in Flight. It is quite unlikely that the two extra AMRAAM loadouts out of all in the whole table are planned or wind-tunnel only.
You should really think about decompression and some BR adjustments, just a few examples: MiG-29 with R-60M and R-27ER at 12.7, F-16XL with AIM-120 and MiG-29 with R-73 and R-27ER at 13.0, F-16ADF and Su-30MK2 at 13.3.
I have genuine hatred in my heart for “people” who kill bombers before they drop during events. Genuinely just wait so I can get my 400 points. Or is your attention span THAT bad that you need dopamine immediately or else you’ll literally die irl
Also 45k event points is an egregious amount for people to contend with a playerbase of actual scientific parasites for. No I’m not opening my wallet for war thunder I’m not as weak as you and doing so would not fix any of the problems I have with the game.
I’m in the squadron mosquito flying in a straight line towards a base, the LEAST people can do is let me get my 400-ish points before sending me back to the main menu
I understand not wanting to spend money but War Thunder being f2p means the game isnt promising that every piece of content or every efficient way of grinding is going to be available without spending money… You can absolutely play for free, its just the slower/less convenient progression route. I was just saying thats how I’ve been doing the event. If you’re playing entirely F2P then yeah I can understand why 45k points feels awful as I did an event like this one, while playing a rank 2 aircraft years ago before I bought a premium vehicle, and this is really bad memories
Why you guys do this?? One time a friend of mine asked if I wanted to try out his glider and i almost had a stroke tring to make sense of the controls lol
With zombing nerfed i now have no to get that coupon
Thank you air rb pvpers for ruining a mode you never touched
Every single time i have someone on radar they bail out. Why cant gaijin “hire” more volunteers to moderate matches or do they not want to give away more ge as payment because theyre that cheap?
I understand this but I still don’t think it’s entirely fair to completely and utterly cuck newer players out of getting an event plane for free just because they haven’t unlocked higher BR stuff yet. Like I’m inconsistent at best in dogfights which is the main reason I’m not getting points quickly, but I’m at least getting full points (plus a lil extra) when I do get them because I’m playing jets now. I think newer players with much less progress in the tech trees should have at least a better option for grinding than they do right now without having to resort to bombing in sim, which is so insanely boring that I only do it in spurts, or opening their wallets.
To put this another way, I understand that the grind is intentional and I understand that it will always be the most efficient to purchase a premium and grind that way, but I think F2P players who missed low tier event planes should have a better option for grinding than they do currently.
