I’ve determined a preliminary BR for this aircraft: ~10.7
Pulse doppler radar, 3 SARH missiles with IR terminal phase.
I really want this for March 2025 after the Mig-31 in December.
It’d be a perfect speed creep of the fastest jets of War Thunder.
F-111F, F-15E, Mig-31, YF-12.
You could put the XB-70 in between the Mig-31 and YF-12 for ~10.7 as well as a mach-3 conventional supersonic bomber and add YF-12 for June 2025.
Until you realize it’s not even remotely close to
The planes listed Just goas Very fast at high altitude
Max airspeed is below 900kmh
While it is Pulse doppler it’s the First one
So Very early pulse doppler like the F4j and f14a/b
So probably its front aspect only and can get ground clutter in some situations
And it’s tws mode can only Track a single Target
And has only 3 missiles which are the predecessor of the aim54
Your determined br seams resonable
Maybe even a tick lower at 10.3
But it could also go all the way up to 11.0 if it really manages to stay save from missiles and other aircraft by just zooming across the map at extreme altitudes 24km+
The AIM 47 it had are also Nuclear tipped with a 0.25KT warhead
the Sh-3 seaking could carry a nuclear depth charge too
The W42 nuclear option for the AIM-47 was cancelled early in the missile development stage. The plannned operational fit was 100lb HE only.
I could be wrong here and if I am I apologise, but the radar unit in the nose of the YF-12A’s was directly used for aircraft like the F-14 (or atleast I think it may have been a model that eventually lead directly to the F-14’s).
Since the F-117A has been added and Gaijin has since expressed interest in introducing more “gimmick” vehicles, I think the YF-12A could easily find a place in War Thunder, regardless of its usefulness.
So, the AN/ASG-18 (YF-12 radar) wasn’t directly used in the F-14, but it absolutely paved the way for a system like the AWG-9
I would say it should be squadron vehicle like Night Hawk.
While it is fascinating, I don’t think it would work in this game. For one thing, all your facts that shows the top speed of all these aircraft, in fact, the top speed of the SR-71, YF-12A, etc are still classified, as well as the max altitude.
Secondly, the aircraft would be too fast for the maps used in WT.
I have seen this plane at the National Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. I love it and the SR-71.
BTW, the A-12 was not called a Blackbird. It was called Archangel.
Night Hawk also doesn’t really work tbh.
And as far as i remember GJ said they are interested in adding “similar” planes.
It’s a weird plane to balance because the armament isn’t all that useful and it’s too fast compared to a lot of jets in the game. It probably needs a hard counter like the MiG-31, otherwise people are just going to fly to space and be annoying because the jet is going too fast and too high for missiles to reach it. It could fit in the 12.7 bracket in AIR RB but not without the MiG-31 added in the game or something. I would still like to see it at some point.
+1 assuming it can be balanced
Alright, so first of all, id love to see this ingame. Second however, it should not be a special pack if it can only be used in custom battles as that ruins the whole point of a special pack. I could see it being squadron or tech tree that came with all mods being already researched (assuming it ends up custom battle only), but if the mods are already researched, assume that it would add to the research and SL cost of getting the airplane
Ngl, now that i think of it, this could maybe be added as an air version of “dreams come true” event where they can add vehicles that would not really fit in the game in other way
now MIG-25 coming hope to see YF-12 too. even though it just carried 3 aim-47 falcons. curious if they give us a prototype or the planned but canceled f-12 production variant. hope for the prototypes though.
Probably as dream come true next year?
maybe… since it would be a unique single purpose aircraft.
