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.
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.
with our luck, it might end up being a F-1 Late or something else Japan doesn’t really need
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
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)
Knowing gaijin, they will do this to japan, I’d hate to admit it but i wouldnt be surprised if this was the case
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
it has chaff pods yes
watch them not add any of the domestic Japanese A2G/A2S missiles, essentially stripping Japan’s multirole aircraft of any multirole capabilities
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
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
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.
I love CAS options at a BR nothings at + planes that are severely under developped in todays era
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
Are you sure
F-1 didn’t have chaff pods
Outerpylon
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
there is ability to operate, however during its service there was no active need to use it on a day to day basis
A-7E Moment
Why you claim the ability to use it with no checking the loadout manual where it is missing for F-1 but there is in T-2 one