Mitsubishi F-2

Machinery of War Discussion Aircraft
998

This is my biggest fear. F-2 can be really unique with new control modes, a chance at AESA and missile datalink overhauls, finally a chance to fix AAM-3 and AAM-4 and the perfect time to introduce GCS-1s, ASM-2/2B/3 and maybe even XGCS-2, but it can also be very underwhelming with none of that or sub-par implementations.

There’s no guarantee for HMD since it was only planned and never made, there’s only the 4 + 4 loadout used with 6 + 4 being theoretical and unproven, ASMs take up an MRM station each unless they allow them on inner pylons (if they add them at all) and so on…

And all of that with so many delays that we need at least some of the new features, big reworks and theoretical loadouts only for it to not be sidelined by the top tiers from two updates back. Gaijin really set themselves up for failure…

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999

This is my biggest fear and its not just for the F-2, but all future actual AESA aircraft.

We already have AESA aircraft in game and gaijin treats them exactly like the far inferior russian PESA radars.

If the F-2 does not have the actual functionality of a proper AESA radar there is a little to no chance that gaijin ever implements it’s benefits correctly.

The F-2 in a sense is the last chance of NATO AESA superiority being modeled in WT.

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1000

iirc Stepanovich already confirmed that PESA / AESA are corrently lacking features that will be introduced overtime.

Its possible that the difference between PESA and AESA becomes a little bigger in the future, but who knows.

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1001

with our luck, it might end up being a F-1 Late or something else Japan doesn’t really need

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1002

F-2A would be very nice to have as everyone now virtually has a new top tier jet with a cool new feature, while japan got a copy paste that adds virtually nothing.

F-1 Late would be nice too though

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1003

Watch them pull a Finnish F-18 and make it 14.0 w/o HMD (MLU-1 could’ve easily been the version and been identical to F/A-18 Late)

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1004

Knowing gaijin, they will do this to japan, I’d hate to admit it but i wouldnt be surprised if this was the case

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1005

I think it’d be a difficult aircraft to balance honestly. AIM-9Ls but no flares, put it too high and it’d be smacked around by 9Ls and other similar missiles, put it too low and it’d dog on subsonic / flareless aircraft

iirc it had Chaff pods, but only chaff pods? you’d probably just have to run Zunis as BTEC Flares

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1006

it has chaff pods yes

1007

watch them not add any of the domestic Japanese A2G/A2S missiles, essentially stripping Japan’s multirole aircraft of any multirole capabilities

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1008

I am hoping if they plan to add the F-1 Late or F-2A they implement the long awaited GCS-1. They say “no proof it can track tanks” despite repeatedly being proven it can

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1009

all of modern domestic aircraft lacking its ground ordinance including basic features.

Like T-2’s RWR (uses the one on the F-1)

GCS-1 for T-2 onwards and so on

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1010

Then we would’ve never needed a Thai subtree for CAS!

Though I’m a little glad they did add Thailand, the Alpha Jet, Harriers and F-5T are so fun in GRB.

1011

I love CAS options at a BR nothings at + planes that are severely under developped in todays era

1012

Chaff pod is missing in F-1 manual same as the control panels for Chaff pods. Meanwhile at the same manual for T-2 there is. F-1 didn’t have chaff pods

T-2 missing any RWR IRL

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1013

Are you sure

F-1 didn’t have chaff pods

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1015

I am totally sure because read the whole manual searching it but missing

And I know about photos with Chaff pods, but because of missing in manuals it looks they just attached it with no possibility to operate

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1016

there is ability to operate, however during its service there was no active need to use it on a day to day basis

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