I was thinking recently that it could be the F-15DJ, but for some reason, it’s hard for me to believe that
Since 2022 it no longer has any US components and is therefore no longer subject to US export control :)
Yes a new seeker and some other components mean it’s no longer ITAR and can be offered to India (if they buy Typhoon)
They’ve already selected it as their IR missile of choice and are integrating it onto all of their current platforms from what I’ve read, definitely at least the SU-30MKI anyways
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I feel like I am turning into this with Gsabi’s and wreckings responses.
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Just a shame it wont fit into the internal bays of the F-35
British Empire is a sub nation of Britain in naval technically. So every country that had been part of Britain should be under the British Empire sub tree.
I’m half joking
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Well, it probably would, we just gave up trying. Does the 9X work internally, I thought it couldn’t self-ignite so needed specialized bays in the F-22 to work properly, the F-35 doesn’t have those.
Still no leak？
9x is getting internal bay capability with the 35s 4th upgrade.
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So, until the Block 4 it won’t make any difference? That’s good to know, it is kind of funny that the F-35 is likely not going to be run in a stealth configuration by most people in War Thunder
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I knew i wasn’t crazy!
Spoiler
I will go peacefully when they arrive with the straight jacket.
Yeah odd it wasn’t able to with the block 1. I guess they could run straight AMRAAMs.
likely not considered a priority, with the internal bay being prioritized for multirole use, and external weapons expected to be used anyways, like I said, it would have probably required specialized Fox2 bays like on the F-22, and that didn’t fit with the design profile for the aircraft, especially as Britain was a primary partner and the extra effort needed to make sure they worked with ASRAAMs as well as AIM-9s
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I dont know I have seen ASRAAMS wing tip mounted with the RAF/FAF F-35s and assumed the dimensions were off and that created the issue with them being externally mounted.
Every F-35 customer excluding the UK are going to have bought the 9X for their F-35. Japan probably trying to integrate AAM-5
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Yeah at the end I guess it had gone so long in development and so over budget they had to get it out before making the better bays.
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Everyone goes on about the need for a gun…The F-35 doesn’t even carry an IR missile (internally) :P
My hype for it disappeared entirely at this point, to be honest, hahah.
VT4A1 is already a mess, with worse mobility than MBT-2000, non-existant armor because the 83º UFP can’t bounce off shots even at 86º for some reason, underperforming glacis armor underneath the ERA…
And Thai VT-4 would be even worse: weaker engine, so even slower than VT4A1, and FY-2 ERA instead of FY-4, so even weaker than VT4A1…
Only way I could look forward to Thai VT-4 is if it were 11.3, to make a lineup with the Type 90s- maybe even 11.0, since it would be no better than MBT-2000 on the first place.
Unlike when they tried in the 60s, we probably are about at the point where guns stop mattering.
I mean if you can see the enemy, you’ve likely already messed up big time xD
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