Maybe i overestimated what the thai version can have lol
Air-to-Air Missiles
- 2x AIM-9P
- 2x AIM-9P-4
- 2x AIM-9L / M
Dumb-Bombs / Rockets
- 6-8x Mk.82
- 2-4x LAU-3
Air-to-Ground Missiles
- 2-4x AGM-65D / G
I’m not an expert by any means but from reading the Wikipedia specs sheet the T50 seems pretty comparable to Gripen. They have similar thrust, weight, and rate of climb. Top speed is worse. No idea how the turn performance is, since the T50 is a twin seat trainer it’s probably not as good.
7 hardpoints, one of them is for gunpod. Gaijin can probably decide to give either 9L or 9M depending on what BR they’re aiming for. It could be anywhere from 12.0 to 12.7 depending on flight model I imagine
F-5TH gets IRIS-T and Python-5, their F-16A (e)MLU also gets IRIS-T.
Yeh but uh the thai version seems to be the lowest version lol
In which in it self can replace the F-16AJ since that’s at 12.7 itself
Yep! F-16AJ’s probably scheduled to be R2Y2’d at some point
I’d take any T50 as long as it can fire, I’m not picky :)
It was one of my reasons to get it in which resulted in me being able to get the F-2 on launch which will be a first lol
The Wiki article about T-50 / FA-50 confuses and mixes lot of things up. Gernally the armament of either is not too great.
Fun fact; Philippine FA-50PH has been equipped AIM-9B for quite some time, until replaced by AIM-9L/i.
Summary
I mean… it is a trainer aircraft lol
Well tbh not everything does what it says in the tin, otherwise we wouldn’t have a prime minister who want to destroy everything.
Anywho… i bet its gonna be the f2 theyve put it off too much
The T-50 is the trainer, FA-50 the fighter variant - even though both are not far apart, especially when it comes to specialized exports’.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves lol. Would only be setting ourselves up for disappointment.
I’m cautiously optimistic but also expecting it to be something sub-tree related
I wonder if XF-2A fits
So, where in the tree do we think Gneisenau will be placed? Foldered with Scharnhorst? Or if it’s the post refit version with 3× 38cm turrets (of which work was already started) after Scharnhorst?
I saw someone in the Russian forum datamined a F-2 model with two ASM-2s, however i never get to find the site itself but rather its screenshot
i hope it has 15 inch guns it was planned for it but hitler scrapped it before they could using it as a blockade ship so if yak 141 can get planned stuff so can Gneisenau
I think that was fake.
Models are around already for the F-2 and people have been putting them in mods (ignore some of the info in that clip, just here as reference for the mods/custom models)