Not 14.3 worthy
watch them give it aim120c5
or even better,
10 fox3.
Okay snail after years, you finally added the papers to the Swedish pilot model but only for the Gripen E, how many more DKK will it take for you to add them to the rest of the Nordic pilots?
Where are they snail?
How on earth is that a 14.3???
It seems like at most an F-16C sidegrade.
Still not 14.3 even with C-5s.
Tbf if the F-18C can be 14.0 so can that thing
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They overtiered the F-16I so I have little faith in the F-16XL.
F-16I and Gripen E being the same BR is still diabolical.
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Eh, given the amount of mid the TT has its the best air addition in years its bound to be sent to 15.0 alongside the Rafale because people are already screaming swedish bias just like the people who did when the F16 got added because it has HMD oh no the 2nd worst 13.7 is swedish its OP run for your lives
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Derby ER is what it needs, basically a R-77 with the range of AMRAAM C5
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when flying in a straight line r-77-1 already has the best range among the “normal” fox3s
*best range as in shortest travel time to target
who gives a flying frick tho?
Me, i like the papers on the legs
i would prefer it when gaijin fixes 7F/Ms from behaving like CW seeker missiles /s
Yeah but gaijin loves to fix minor side things over major things 90% of the time so why not try my luck right?
11.7 with 9P3 would make this thing competitive
I mean it also could carry AIM-120 so it will be far from 11.7.
Yeah if it gets 120s it will automatically be 13.3/13.7. With something like 9L/M only i can see it at 12.7 or 13.0 but no lower than that.
I can’t see it being added with sidewinders only since it would be limited to just 2 of them. Also the fact that the whole idea of the XL was to have an F-16 but could carry a lot of ground ordinance whilst also not sacrificing air-to-air armament (paraphrasing here but you get the point) would make it weird for it to come with a gimped air-to-air loadout.
It could carry the entire F-16A air-to-air loadout and effectively its air-to-ground loadout at the same time. Not specific weapons but more-so the quantity as I think the XL was only tested with AIM-9’s, AIM-120’s, AGM-65’s and 500lbs bombs so it would mean no GBU’s or JDAM’s. Although supposedly it did have a mount for LANTIRN pod under the chin but I don’t think it ever flew with it.
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which Block is it based on?
Unsure but IIRC they were converted from F-16A’s which would make it a Block 1/5/10/15. Although looking at the dates and the armament my guess would be a Block 15.
Is that a boom refueling marking on the belly? lmao
Though I’m assuming it’s for confusing opponents like the fake canopy, but it’s still super funny