Yes, FBW like every single plane in this game, and unstable airframe like F-16 and JAS-39 that decided today is the opposite day and are stable.
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What does unstable airframe mean it sounds quite counterintuitive
F-117 is unstable enough on full real. Just use that instead
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The F16 is unstable tbf
Its actually quite smart if you think about the way its used in engineering to force more perfomance out an airframe
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When is the dev server open till?
For the F-2, we’re including L-JDAMs in there right? They’d be like this next updates Paveway IVs in terms of both GPS guided and laser guided? I don’t know if that’s the GBU-38 or GBU-54.
GBU-54 is LJDAM yes, they should potentially have a better laser seeker, but I’m not completely sure on that yet.
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I’m mostly interested in that combined feature. Just lobbing some bombs from range and then repositioning to lase as they get closer to do any final adjustments/tracking on moving targets.
I think that and having an actual gen 2/3 TGP (whichever it is, the sniper pod from lockheed martin) will be really great too as that’s what currently hurts the AJ.
The laser seeker range is rather crucial when it comes to adjusting from long designation range. Current Paveways lack a good enough seeker to do that (only reliable enough from 10km away or so). Also sniper should be gen 3, which is very nice.
10km doesn’t seem so bad unless I’m missing something. Dropping an essentially GPS guided bomb from 10km+ out and then in the last moments, turning the laser on and dragging it back onto whatever you were targeting and it should hit? No drifting thanks to GPS guidance and it would be well within 10 km at the end.
Speaking of LJDAMs I wonder (assuming we first get a early F-2 with J/APG-1) if gaijin will give the bru-57 pylon, sniper pod, and LJDAM to the early version since well only the late F-2s received sniper pod and BRU-57 for increased jdam loadout.
Thats being said i cant wait to see these loadouts
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The 10km figure here is the designation range, so your own range to the target. 10km is enough against most SAMs for sure, but I guess as Japan will face too, the Pantsir will be very annoying if you sit at the 10km mark. If you lase from 13k-15m for instance, which is pretty much outside of Pantsir effective range (with a little bit of moving maybe), the paveway acquisition range drops to <1km ranges which often means the bomb can’t make any corrections anymore. I would need to check again after the update, in which paveway seekers will be slightly buffed, but from testing on the dev 13km+ designation ranges are still mostly out of the question, depending on how accurate your drop was.
I have a feeling they’re going to just put in an F-2 with J/APG-1 (with J/ARG-1) with most of the features of the later variants. Then add in an F-2 late with J/APG-2 with all the experimental high end stuff.
Kind of like them putting in the F-15J(M) first and then the F-15 JSI later without an early F-15J.
I’m kind of cautiously optimistic for December considering that ESA radars have been touched on officially and it’s the next logical step for Japan. I want to have more hope but that’s asking for disappointment without more to go on lol.
Oh, I meant loft/lobbing the bomb from like 15km and then speeding up around the AO on the deck until enough time passes, then pop up to lase a target within basically 5 km before dropping back down.
I think this tactic is already used with laser guided bombs but it’s effectiveness is hampered a little because the bomb drifts without GPS guidance.
Oh yeah that would work fine. Another things you can do with GPS is actually drop them from low altitude and closer, which gives less time for SPAA to react. In my experience against Pantsir at least is that if you drop bombs from long range, it will just get shot down very often.
so like the cobra keybind i’ve heard of in dcs
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Honestly for the best at this point…late F-2a would still get the newer radar…and upgraded wepons and system’s …we desperately need more CAS
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CAS one thing, but I need a really good dogfighter for CAP too.
The AJ was really good at beating everyone else but now that IRCCMs IR missile and ARHs are in the mix, it’s a lot harder CAP. If the AJ had AAM-3s it would be a big help. F-2 hopefully is going to be modeled correctly to be right up there with Gripens and other high performance dogfighters.
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F-15JM? Although once you run out of air targets in it, it becomes sorta useless.
Thai Gripen for you and not the F2 :P
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