And I mean, what can Gaijin really do? The F-16AJ is pretty much fake, and giving it a better radar does nothing but make that situation worse. F-16AJ has consistently been a decent vehicle since it was added, and continues to be. The 7Fs aren’t perfect, but they’re okay aswell.
7Fs vs 7Ms?
Not to mention that yes the radar is worse, but not massively and its certainly not a detriment. When I played it a couple months ago, I got 6 kills- 2 with the Sparrows at mid-range, while basically stock.
Subconscious reflexes that are different between planes.
I’ve never had AIM-7s go funky on me because I’ve only ever launched them within their launch parameters.
Even the ones I launched that went toward friendlies did so because between me warming up the missile and me launching, a friendly went between me and the target and became a larger radar signature.
That’s an entirely predicted thing and I unlocked my target, let the missile die, and went for him or another target after that missile was gone.
I and that friendly caused the missile to do what it did, nothing more.
the F-16AJ we have is fake and despite that even if it was real (technically real on paper cause brochure) its incorrect, the AJ we have is a Block 10. when it’s actually based off the YF-16A
which had access/trialed carrying x4 sparrows (2 on wing 2 on landing gear)
I mean, the whole F-16AJ is fake. The concept of it being a Fox1 carrier (YF-16A), sure. Still, either remove the F-16AJ and add YF-16A as an event or change the F-16AJ into the YF-16A (similar to 90105).
EIther way, they can’t really give it anything without making it more ahistorical than it is. Its a great vehicle regardless.
Why does anyone want yet another middy F16?
Theres only 2 good ones left… 12.3 and 12.7
Id spent 2.5 mill for the chinese F16 which was forum’d
Now i ground jap just for this F16 which on its own cost another 2.5mill which has busted radar/ missiles.
5 mill silver = approx £100
Iv gotta ask if you are actually undercover WT agents🤣 make the game worse so we spend more.
I mean, the OCU can easily replace the F-16AJ. It never used AMRAAMs, so should go down to 13.0. I can’t imagine a way they’d make it 12.7 without making an OCU (early) w/o 9Ms (not sure if they always had it or it was an upgrade) or straightup removing 9Ms.
They could give it landing gear Sparrows, GBU-8, the PW-200 engine and a corrected 3D model. It would still not be a real aircraft, but at least be promoted from pure fiction to an accurate representation of the real (paper) proposal.
As far as I’m aware, they’d have to also give it a worse radar to make it into the YF-16A. So, yeah. I’m sure tokerstar won’t be happy with that news.
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also i believe the YF-16 Airframe was more unstable and was a two-seater.
The YF-16A didn’t have radar at all, even for Sparrow testing guidance was not a concern. The proposal was not to sell the YF-16, but to make a new F-16 variant based on the (at the time) most up-to-date Block 10 by using the experiences from the previously discontinued Sparrow testing.
It was a single seater, but I’m not sure about stability. That being said the F-16AJ specifically had an added chine on the nose to preserve stability even with the added landing gear Sparrows
Full list of changes to the Block 10 of the time
I also have no idea why Gaijin gave it the PW-220 engine, an engine that not only didn’t exist when it was proposed, but didn’t even exist when the F-15J entered service (the time the F-16J would’ve entered service as well).
