Now on a more optimistic look…while its still being researched and debated…they can give us a theoretical loadout of being able to carry fox 3s and weapons on the outer pylon and inner most pylons
This would allow for a air to air loadout of 8 fox 3s and 2 IR on par or better with other top tier jets.
For ground it would also be good as this would allow for high cas loadouts and be able to carry fox 3s
With the theoretical loadout above we could look at a max jdam loadout of 12 and still be able to carry 2 fox 3s and 2 IR. Or even 4 fox 3s+2 IR and 8 jdams
Its more crazy with ASMs since you can carry 6 ASM-2s and 2 fox 3s. Or 4 fox 3s and 4 ASM-2s much better then the regular options. That and sniper pod plus if they give us HMD simply because it was mentioned in a document and the F-2 would be a beast.
But thats up in the air as its debated that those pylons can carry such loadout but there are some hints that they possibly could but nothing confirmed really more cope talk from me.
We know it seems that it was at least planned to have used radar missiles on those outer pylons at some point pre production but that changed post production.
We also know it can equip at least bombs on the inner pylons but it doesnt mean ASMs can be used at least so far. Maybe JDAMS?
dont take what i said too seriously as most is still debated and most likely not possible its up in the air right now. That being said if we were able to get this theoretical kit alongside HMD it would be a very strong top tier jet besides raw speed which would make more sense why it hasnt been added just yet…im coping lol
Yes but I’d say it’s more favorable than not that we’ll see HMD but we have to wait and see before we doom and gloom. But like I said, vertical ACM at least will help in dogfights, mostly for gun lead
Fox 3s are nice but in GRB they’re really only useful for taking care of high flying CAS or keeping someone on the deck. Otherwise you can still multipath very well to close in the distance and 1 vs 1. What’s more dangerous is smokeless ir missiles even through maws. However, dogfights leave the deck sometimes and in those cases yes, off boreshot aam-4 is useful. Though realistically, probably will be jettisoning aam-4s if it gets to that point as they are too heavy to dogfight with
Anyhow, guys I think I’ll agree to disagree with the BR rating. Ultimately, I don’t care if its 14.0, 20.0, 1.0, or 9999.0, I’m going to be excited for it and playing it anyway as I’ve only ever expected a better F-16AJ with AAM-3 and AAM-4 with a drogue chute :P
NGL i think we can fairly safely say it’s only gonna get 6 ARHs at best, as the justifications for them kinda contradict each other.
Either Gaijin gives us the inner most one, as it should seem to be able to physically mount them, but wasn’t originally intended to. Or they give us the outside one, which was intended to, but never physically could.
