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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with our luck, it might end up being a F-1 Late or something else Japan doesn’t really need
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
A-7E just heavily inhaling waiting for its turn