Sim is an option so is air rb because it carries radar guided air to air missiles. Just like the MiG-25 and MiG-31 they aren’t great at turning but still have deadly missiles.
There is also another reason this would be a brilliant option ingame. Other that it being balanced because of its lack of maneuverability and limited performing air to air radar missiles.
ALL of the Arch Angel series of aircraft from the A-12 to the SR-71, do not have fuel tanks. As metal or plastics/rubber would not survive the heat stresses so compartmented sections of the airframes were filled with fuel. Contraction in cold climates/on the ground meant it dripped fuel at a slow rate, whilst the heat from air resistance would seal those gaps.
THIS leads to the fact that the YF-12 will be INCREDIBLY flammable if damaged and if the body is slightly damaged depending on the sections, you will either lose all your fuel to the fuel leak or nearly all of it.
Again another thing that balances it’s addition to the game.
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It is an interesting piece of equipment
Maybe the aim47 would perform better than the aim54 on the f14 because the yf 12 basically wake’s up we’re the f14 with its engines is dying do to altitude
Basically a high tier p47 ta152h
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This aircraft would be really nice as an event award. However, that event month would be absolutely hell for War Thunder players.
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Why is everything that awesome having to be an event for the US?
This will single-handedly be one of the best/coolest aircraft in the whole game.
Its not a mid game item like the E100 or Obj279
I just dont get the sentiment. Itll still be in game regardless, but gatekeeping things is the point of events. Events need a rework before id agree to that
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If it is not a production varient it almost always is an Event Vehicle as it shouldn’t be in the tech tree.
Well thats totally false because thats NOT how dozens upon dozens of vehicles work in this game so…
yea i also think it will be an event vehicle given it would be very bad has tech tree or squadron vehicle because its a brick like the yak 28 at war thunder game play altitude also its a pain to land
actually i was wrong its even worse the sr 71 tops out at 750-900 meanwhile the yak 28 can go 1100 so the yf 12a would be 200-350kmh slower
It would be better as a TT vehicle, It’s performance would prolly lack alot.
Interesting the Aim-47s were direct predecessors to the Aim-54s. With only 6 successful firings with a 7th failing due to gyroscopic issues which was probably when it was being mounted rather than engineering.
What are you refering to with it being slower? Sea level speeds?
Yea or “close’” to it you need to go Very high before you can outspeed anything that isn’t a su25 or other slow planes
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it can outrun though
We have mach 4+ missiles ingame, it cannot outrun them, and the altitude required for it to go Mach 3 is quite high where players don’t fight.
Those are termed “integral fuel tanks” - pretty much every large airliner has them these days too, although they can use rubber and other sealants at the joints.
I have “wonderful memories” of crawling through 737-200 series wings sealing up all the joints in the tanks with PRC 1422 as an apprentice in the 1970’s!!
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missile fuel?
Again nobody flies high enough for the alts the YF-12A will “shine” at it’s top speed. Just like nobody currently flies high enough for mach 2+ combat. Mach 1.6-1.7 is normal on large enduring confrontation maps to travel around quickly when looking for enemies whilst sacrificing fuel.
mach 2 is not implemented in game as you cant surpass mach 1.99 if I remember correctly, but I’m not getting into an argument over this
Yeah, the ramjet engines don’t kick in until around about 80k feet, this thing won’t be very good.