Cant wait to see the release of devlog about PoBIT
Probably going to be after the trailer, tbh. Hype train and all that.
If it’s not the PoBIT and yall hyped yourselves for nothing I’m gonna laugh so hard
Probably is, though. All ‘legacy’ airframes received an upgrade with AESA radar apart from F-16C and F-15E (technically, the F-15EX would fall under the F-15C Golden Eagle but it’s Gaijin so they’ll probably do F-15E → F-15EX). The likelihood it’s the Viper is much higher (and also, much easier to implement) than the F-15EX.
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Yeah that fully makes sense. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a F-15EX, it’s a bit less logical since we just got the GE but it wouldn’t be too much work for Gaijin either
What I really wanna see added though is the F-16E
Yeah…
- Creating a new airframe from scratch (which includes EPAWSS antennas)
- Creating a cockpit, from basically scratch
- Create a new engine
- Create 3D model of AESA radar
- Heavily research and implement widely accepted capabilities (or capabilities it is thought to will have, e.g., 22-AMRAAM loadout)
“Not too much work”
not quite.
theyve done it before
GE-129 already ingame
looks pretty similar to APG-63v3
probably will just have 12 or 16 AMRAAM with MRML, no CFT amber racks
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You’re making it sound like crazy work when really they’d just modify the F-15E’s model, add some pylons, copypaste the GE’s radar and fix it later, and maybe not even add the new cockpit straight away
I feel like it might be EX because they wanted to add F-15QA last update, and if they add that and not EX it would be kinda crazy
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The EX is coming for sure, but maybe not this update and the next ones instead. We’ll know really soon anyway
Is there a way to tell the difference between a PoBiT and a standard F-16C?
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They have to add a new Cockpit for the EX.
The layout is fundamentally different from the previous models.
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Something interesting I found when having to resubmit my Have Glass V suggestion (for the second time now I originally made the thing back in August) is that SABR has been fitted onto Have Glass V units.
Supposedly these 4 F-16’s (3 with HG V and 1 with HG II) were fitted with SABR back in 2020 at Eglin AFB.
Means that in the future we could see a stealth(ish) F-16 with all the PoBIT kit. Would be like a mini F-22 and could be a good way of testing the water with regards to stealth on fighters.
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Will the have glass by any chance become a modification for PoBIT?
I don’t think so since they are 2 separate programs and we are seeing Have Glass F-16’s being upgraded through PoBIT rather than PoBIT F-16’s upgraded with Have Glass.
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Well then
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I mean I also expected it, but it would’ve been so funny
14.3 material?