I don’t even know how their guidance works and I can’t be arsed to read up on “Focal-plane array”, but either way, we most likely aren’t seeing AIM-9Xs in the near future
Bro I gave u three how many more u want lmao
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Jaw drop.
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exactly, the 9J was the best sidewinder for 4 years and the 9M will be too
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Personally I think in second major update gajin would add another all-aspect IR AAM AIM-9L/i, AIM-9M-8, AIM-9M-9, AIM-9L/i-1, PL-5E, PL-5E II & PL-8B
And another AGM-65 Maverick might be AGM-65E-2, AGM-65G-2 & AGM-65K
I might hope gajin consider another 3rd generation laser designator pods for USA, UK, Italy & sweden aircraft in rank 8
I assume that F-5T Tigris (RTAF) like F-5E FCU but armed with IR AAM Python III & Python IV and equipped DASH HMD
It’s F-5S from RSAF but I don’t know specifications
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AIM-9J has barely been in game for 4 years now.
I’ve also seen it used for the Thai F-5 second capability upgrade. Not sure how accurate the name is though, Thai F-5 naming confuses me…
it was added with the F4E in Viking fury 4 years ago
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Yeah, but with missiles like the AIM-9L being released on the A-10A 2 years ago and on more mainstream fighters like the F-16A 1 year ago, was the AIM-9J really the best sidewinder for 4 years?
Unless I’m missed sarcasm and thus making a fool out of myself.
I swear there was a variant of the Tigris that also had a better radar (original replaced with Elta 2032), and had the right cannon removed to allow for cooling of said radar
Edit: I found it!
It’s the F-5TH Super Tigris
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Hol’ up, the F-4E was added in Viking Fury?!
I swear it was in-game for longer :(
I don’t know why they would add AIM-9L/i s, as the aircraft that could use them above 11.3 could just get AIM-9Ms anyways and aircraft below 11.0 shouldn’t get IRCCM in the first place.
There doesn’t seem to be much info about the AIM-9M-8 and 9M-9 available online and from the little bit that I could find they don’t seem like a noticeable upgrade.
About the Mavericks, we definitely don’t need FnF A2G armament with even better seekers than what already is available, so the AGM-65K would be a no. I suppose the G and E-2 could come, but they seem pretty overkill to me, considering they started out as anti-ship/anti-fortification missiles.
The F-5TH started out with the designation F-5T, so thats probably were the confusion started. The upgraded Thai F-5Es were redesignated as F-5TH and the upgraded Singaporean F-5Fs were designated as F-5Ts.
The upgraded Singaporean F-5Es are designated as F-5Ss.
The first batch of upgrades for the F-5Es, the short lived Thai F-5Ts, seem rather pointless to me if all they did is add a HMD and Python-4s.
I don’t think they are coming in the next update though, as their main “selling point” is their abilities to launch BVRAAMs and Japan definitely deserves to get their Mitsubishi F-2.
Im pretty sure the AIM-9J has been released with the German F-4F Early
They usually add some secret vehicles (vehicles that werent shown in the dev-blogs or on the dev-server) and i’m really curious to which vehicles these are going to be.
The AIM-9J Sidewinder is an American infrared homing air-to-air missile. It was introduced in Update 1.97 “Viking Fury”/16 March 2020.
https://wiki.warthunder.com/AIM-9J_Sidewinder
The F-4F Early was added during the Update “Ixwa Strike” as a high-tier reward for the Future Technology event/ 10 March 2021.
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I’ve been thinking…
Now that we have the F-20 Tigershark, we only need like 2 more planes before having the entire Area 88 collection: either a Humpback A-4E/F or A-4M, and the F/A-18A.
Hmmmm…
well, currently its still an unused asset in the datamines, and it was leaked by the same guy that got EVERYTHING right, and since it’s a very controversial topic it’s devblog might drop after the update. but what makes me wonder more then it being dropped is…is it gonna a premium or a Tech tree? it makes sense to be a tech tree be cause it will fill a gap between 5.7 and 7.7 and at the same time add a new tank to the suffering 6.7 swedish lineup. but again japanese Tiger 1 and italian tiger 1 were all premiums.
It honestly doesn’t make sense for it to be in the tech tree. It’s either going to be a premium or it’s gonna be the April Fools event tank.
Shame the event was DMM only…