If only the X-32 had won, then we’d have a hideous monster of an aircraft, but at least I wouldn’t get the designations confused so much xD
I wish you didn’t speak, now i remember IT
If only we could get an update focused on adding older stuff…
We don’t even have AIM-120C yet XD let alone the AIM-120D and the eventual AIM-260.
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Hawks or Gnats when? Finland needs a vehicle added that actually fills in gaps, you cant name a single vehicle on finland that wasn’t already done by a swedish vehicle which is a shame when gaijin could’ve added actually useful vehicles.
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What a happy little fella, I wanna give 'em some pets.
To be fair, the YF-23 would only mount AIM-120As, AIM-7s and AIM-9s…
… or well, nothing at all, because they never test fired missiles from it
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Was fitted for it though, so could still come. YF-22 actually did fire missiles so there is no issue with that one at all
What’s that small tube like thing in the AIM-9 pylon?
Countermeasure dispenser if I had to guess
The larger bay never had a working rack system for launching missiles, the only bay you can reasonably make work is the smaller front bay with I think 3 AIM-9s
The bigger bay had a weird extension arm that was never completed or maybe a revolver type drum system that again was never finalized, and without knowing how they actually planned to launch missiles from it, there’s no real way to model it
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That makes more sense, it didn’t look like a CM pod
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x-32
aim-120 and a bomb inside it
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No
Yeah last time i was there i ahd asked about it but the staff on hand didn’t have a definitive answer when i showed him the photo, most of the F 35’s on display dont have it, or at least i didn’t see it.
It may be something i have to ask some swedish peeps since the F 35 was first delivered and tested with the swedish tri crown and paint on it, and the versions ive seen in our colors dont have that exact cylinder.
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ew, why does it look like a frog ate a fighter jet?
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Generally prototypes are mostly done in the case of aircraft like Mirage 4000, Yak-141 and other similar aircraft. But its not impossible for production aircraft too, just normally unneeded or unnecessary.
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