The evidence is that there is no primary source evidence suggesting Israel obtained any Aim-9”S” sidewinders ever. A single website isn’t a source. There is however documentation detailing the acquisition and purchase of the Aim-9M for training usage on F-16s, and as such it’s entirely possible they were used in the Lavi as seen in the photos. The Aim-9L is also known to have been used in IAF aircraft and are the reason for multiple confirmed kills. They never had the Aim-9”S”.
Sipri uses mostly first hand sources and a handful for each one
They have made mistakes but they arent left on the page i used, they can miss things however so you may be right but unless anything to the contrary i am more likely to believe Sipri, which again is a somewhat decent source just not a primary one
Since it’s possible we might eventually get strategic bombers, here’s a look at the vehicles that would qualify:
USA
(So many x and y planes!)
B-36
B-47
B-52
B-58*
B-1
B-2
B-21
GBR
Washington
Valiant
Vulcan
TSR-2
Victor
DEU
Ju-390
Ju-287
RUS
M-4
Tu-16
Tu-22
M-50
Tu-95
Tu-22M
Tu-160
ITA
Nuh-uh
FRA
Mirage IV
JPN
Nada
ISR
Zilch
SWE
Zip
CHN
H-6
… a pretty unbalanced list, many nations won’t have an option. That said, we’ve got no idea how the Strategic Bombing mission type/game mode will work, and it’s likely that the gameplay will require a variety of vehicle types on each team (as all modes in War Thunder do) so it’s not like nations without Strategic Bombers won’t be able to participate.
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Missing TSR 2 there, think something between a Vulcan and a Tornado, (which tbf is where it sits chronologically).
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sleeping on the B-32 smh
forgot the A-3 and FB-111, and B-50
also B-45 and A-5
there are easily like 3 B-52 we could get too lol
nothing really wrong with list being unbalanced though
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would be great to see XB-70 too if doing prototypes.
funny enough, the BAC TSR 2 first flew only 6 days after the XB-70
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Hungary and Italy were only allied for about three years during WW2. During WW2 they were enemies, they were enemies after the Italian armistice, and they were enemies from the end of WW2 to the end of the Cold War in 1991. Being allies is only one factor among many.
Britain has their own domestic options, the Ajax and Boxer CT40.
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(ju 287 and 4 boosters below its engines)
ju 390 and ju 287 (the first heavy jet bomber of history) are laughing at you
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also to reach a point that all nations get their modern strategic bomber, we can give each nation a variant of american or russian bomber, for example japan, germany, israel can get one variant of b-52, or other american bombers, italy and france and sweden can get one variant of british modern strategic bombers in their tech trees. china have its own bombers but we can give them one other russian bomber variant too
the problem is solved lol
remember, germany have the first heavy jet bomber of history the ju 287
with max speed of about 600 km per hour
Isn’t ordinance supposed to be let loose?
I don’t think it’s necessary to add them to other nations, these planes are too niche and hardly necessary for any TT, even if Gaijin find some way to implement them, they will never be useful, in PVP it’s just a fresh meat for any fighter.
they are mostly good for ground battles
Doubt, big easy targets, only dangerous for absolutely inattentive team. You can get that experience in planes like Tu-4 already.
No one acknowledges its pay to win as it was a freebie onnce upon a time and now you cant get the original bush pack in the BP boxes.
I agree there should be a refund if they remove them but they wont. Would also like to see optics blocked by them impacting vehicle performance. Like sure you can be invisible in that bush but you are going to have to aim with the commander sight.
is there really a reason why the iaf barely armed the m346 like they do with f16D barakeet(conversion training f16),iaf uses its training f16s like they would do with active fighters. why iaf never put pythons or spice bombs on their lavi m346 is what am confused
Because it will require additional money, and there’s no military need in that
maintencing the m346 is quite cheap and will be a cheap alternative to utalizing f15BAZ as strike planes when they are meant to do air superiority, and nowadays most of the targets israel strikes are not beyond 200km of the border (exeptions of that of rare iran or yemen strikes) .also keeping the m346 lavi fully weapon compatible raises its benefit incase of conflict anyway
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You forgot: Jp: G10N1 fugaku
Sadly never built.
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I mean it does happen that you can give updates to bug reports and why i do ask about stuff like the pzh2k and leopaed 2 dm model from time to time.
Because at times you do give out updates xD