I mean, F-2 was literally a further domestic development + refinement of a program that began as the “agile falcon,” which should give you a hint to its flight characteristics.
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That’s a huge difference in fuel capacity, from 6280 and 6400kg max to 9274kg of fuel. In some gamemodes you could just forego a drop tank altogether.
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Yeah, it’s really interesting from what I’ve seen about it.
It’s similar to MLC, except with much heavier use of flaps compared to the elevators, employing the lift of the main wing in an almost canard-like way. Basically instead of pushing the tail down to pitch up, the wing creates excessive lift to pull itself up, while the elevators move to guide the tail through the maneuver.
This would also create less AoA comparatively to a similar turn when using MLC, which means the aircraft would also create less drag and could perform sharper turns before hitting critical AoA.
So if implemented right, F-2 might even hold it’s own in sustained fights with F-16s
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You’d think but at the end of the day, it is a replacement to the F-1 so the primary focus is attacking ships.
I generally just run max fuel in the F-16AJ which is enough for me burn the necessary fuel to be light in battle without worrying about extra drag from pylons. I do have to manage fuel a bit if the battle progresses slowly so I have time to RTB, if necessary.
But yea the F-2 might be using the same engines, but with higher drag, I assume more fuel burn to compensate, but not so much more to matter.
All hinges on those few words. At this point I’ve consigned myself to it being an F-16AJ which is strong in its own right, but anything else is a bonus. After all, the only issue I have with the F-16AJ right now is that it only has 9Ls so can’t sneak up on MAW or flare spamming aircraft.
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To be fair a lot of changes from the Agile Falcon to the F-2 actually benefit it a lot. The reinforced trapezoidal wing, larger leading and trailing edge flaps, larger elevators and larger and more pronounced leading edge extensions might not have been purely designed to make the aircraft more agile, but they very much will.
It’s an aircraft designed to perform its best when in its intended role, loaded with heavy ASMs, while still performing to its 10G (and 12G override) limits with great controllability. This all just so happened to take the Agile Falcon idea, and push it to its absolute best, intentional or not.
I really feel like an aircraft with a high structural limit at heavy loads, enlarged control surfaces for pitch and roll movement and a significant increase in lift through the wing and LEX will probably be agile in game too.
I only have doubts about ME mode, since I’m not sure if Gaijin would introduce a completely different control mode to the game for just the F-2, so it might not perform as well in sustained fights as it could.
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I don’t think Gaijin will introduce a new mode but they might just fudge numbers to give the equivalent performance. Then again they didn’t do that with Type 10 so who knows.
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We have things like automatically extending leading edge slats, it wouldn’t be impossible to also include flaps dropping on turns. Maybe make it only below a certain speed.
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At least with the F-2 it still has MLC mode too, so it’s not as bad if that’s the only mode since it’s still accurate. Though I’d love to see ME mode added, it would make the F-2 a lot more interesting compared to other aircraft.
Decoupled Yaw could also be interesting, though arguably not as useful as ME.
Yeah, right now we can select a preset flap position (combat, takeoff, landing) and they lower as far as the speed allows.
I feel like ME would require some more fine tuning than that. They also probably shouldn’t just be bound to speed alone, but maybe AoA too and obviously pitch input since the flaps in ME are the main pitch control surfaces. But I also don’t think it’d be impossible still.
Who knows, maybe that’s the part so complicated that F-2 “might be delayed”
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Update trailer has dropped and no F-2 to be seen.
Not a good sign that such a desired plane wasnt shown in the trailer. I really hope the leak saying it could be delayed isnt correct and it just wasnt ready in time for the trailer.
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I’m rapidly approaching the Gaijin office in Karlsruhe. I was stopped by the police three times already for speeding and had to explain to them that the content of my trunk is, in fact, salt. I am coming for the snail. There is no escape.
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I dont wanna go full doomer yet but I dont know how much longer the cope will sustain me.
Im on my knees praying its on the dev stream or at least mentioned.
Surely the snail cant be this evil… right?
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When Japan was ONLY nation without A2G armament they rejected adding GCS-1 and ASM-2 because “it can’t attack tanks”
Of course they don’t have any prove about it as any one
But after this story they easily add F-5A(G) with Penguin which has even worse seeker but can lock tanks
Think about it
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I mean, tbf, Japan hasn’t had vehicles featured in a teaser in quite some time outside of the ocassional ship appearance. Seeing as the main hype of this update will be the Hornet and Su-30 the F-2 is probably gonna be treated as an afterthought as is usual for Japanese stuff these days…
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Not a major nation = barely any screentime or no screentime unfortunately
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You mean “it can only attack”?
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I was hoping too much that China (being a proper major nation in the modern day, whether Gaijin likes it or not) could pull Japan along during the last time we get… But nope, we got neither. Instead it’s US and USSR like always, and not even shown in an exciting way.
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It really just feels like the Asian nations are screwed over, SK barely has a presence in WT lol despite having many indigenous vehicles.
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Not really, most of SK’s stuff until the modern era were American vehicles or modified American vehicles. SK was a major operator of the M48/M60, and also used T-80s and BMP-3s as well.
It really wasn’t until the K1, K2, K9, and K21 when SK started to move away from US reliance on the ground at least. Even in the air it’s all American until the KF-21.
I wouldn’t really call that roster as “a lot of Indigenous designs”, SK would be just another Israeli disaster given the lack of WW2 stuff and with even less modified vehicles, but would probably a fair bit more popular given how much larger of a presence SK gamers probably has in WT compared to Israeli gamers and it’s not as controversial of a nation either.
SK would be better off just having some of their domestic vehicles fill some spots in a tree, wouldn’t even go as far as say it should necessarily be a sub-tree due to my own personal dislike of the constant copy paste that’s been constantly happening lately…
I know, I more so meant that their modern vehicles aren’t even included in any capacity except the VIDAR.
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Last time teaser was hype for Japan IMO was Kings of Battle with the Type 81 as before that Japan was severely lacking for top tier SPAA and that was one of the options people were asking for. Even F-15Js haven’t had teaser time IIRC and while the F-2 is iconic, as stated by Gaijin themselves, who knows what they decide. They might decide to delay the F-2 to put it in the next updates teaser, or just release it this update and featuer it in the update trailer that comes after update release.
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