Who’s gonna get AIM-120D except new F-16 and F/A-18?
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It’s identical at close range, but honestly the margins at long range are yet again 2-4% at most. It’s just “more efficient” PID at extremely high altitudes and a longer battery life. It’s identical to the AIM-120C5 in 99.9% of situations.
The AIM-120A is superior, and the F-16C PoBIT doesn’t even get it as a modification.
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Oh, so maybe it’s an earlier variant?
If so, I think a later variant with the wheel covers would be more recognisable and easier to distinguish from the WM-16.
I belieave so
Those are, if we are to believe BVVD, the placeholder stats
considering the devlog states the only difference is gnss the seeker is likely to be the only difference between the 2 missiles
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I looked into it a bit more:
-From the lack of wheel coverings it looks like an early variant
-From the WM K-14B engine and the 380 top speed it’s a late variant
-The camo is late variant
-The bomb load is the smaller 120 kg load of the early variant (rather than the ~300 kg load of the late variant)
So it seems to be a mismatch?
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Is it possible something else is coming for France but not ready to show ? just 1 destroy is very light for France
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The IVEWS test airframe is 98-0004, which appears to be a Block 50 CJ/CM since it frequently carried HTS in photos before:
2025 - with IVEWS installed, and Litening
2022 - with HTS and Sniper
2012 - with HTS, Sniper, ALQ-131, and Have Glass V
2006 - with port-side HTS, and Sniper
2002 - with the original starboard-side HTS, HARM itself, and ALQ-184,
Not seen it with ALE-50, but there are other airframes at 85th TES that do
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That’s fair, I’m just saying that those stats likely aren’t the final ones
And if the C-5s devserver history is anything to go by, the stats of the 120D could still change a lot
Whether it’s a change for the better or for worse remains to be seen lol
true i hope they at least turn on the ability for the datalink to reconnect that change alone would make it a good missile for WT
@Smin1080p_WT
Eithan IFV will be an IFLD operator (a version of IF that cannot intercept kinetics), or an IFLK (that can)?
That would definitely off-set the limited radar of the F-16 lol
If I was more optimistic, I’d consider the possibility of Gaijin giving the 120D the improvements that the C-5 already should have had, but their modeling of missiles always seems a bit random
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There is something I haven’t noticed before, it seems Ro.43 Italian biplane from vessels can be accessed in air tech tree.
Sadly all the destroyers were low tier, no County class for UK yet.
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I think that’s just a dev account thing
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Yup. I’ve seen HTS with sniper and all of that. AFAIK or have seen none of the SEAD squadrons actually have Viper EW Suite specifically integrated though is what I was getting at compared to the AESA, etc.
The CM’s/CJ’s were a different program than POBIT or CCIP. Appreciate you taking the time to find that. Pretty sure all the CJ/CM’s that were previously in Japan are with the test wing now.
I wonder how ill survive the weekend, with all of the build up excitement.
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Why did the new Centauro get spall liner when none of the Boxer family got its spall liner?