@Smin1080p_WT can you comment what this is for a pod?
It’s ASG-34.
IRST within a drop tank for the Super Hornet.
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No it isn’t. The drawings for F-16AJ in General Dynamics’ Executive Summary document all have the relevant changes for fitting APG-66 that were found on the 1976 F-16 Full Scale Demonstrator that went on to be F-16A Block 1. The first FSD (75-0745) was in construction when GD submitted the F-16 to Japan for consideration for the 1975 FX program, and was their basis for the planned F-16AJ - not YF-16.
YF-16 was the company flight test prototype for the Light Weight Fighter competition, and lacked a number of basic requirements that the USAF wanted on the eventual LWF service aircraft - It was quite a lot smaller than the FSD (shorter and a smaller wing area), so weighed less, and was not representative of what the intended F-16A was going to be.
The only aspect of the YF-16 that F-16J proposal maintained over FSD/F-16A, was the idea for AIM-7 launchers on the landing gear door, and that was simply because the AIM-7 provision wasn’t properly developed for the FSD because the USAF didn’t want F-16 to have Sparrows - however the USAF still required that it have provisions for two radar-guided missiles.
AN/ASG-34A(V)1 IRST pod, it’s an IRST21 on the front of a modified FPU-13/A drop tank
Wait wait wait
I though you said 120D is for US only
Why British will have it as well
UK has EF which is more then good already！
Why？
This is a betrayal to US
Again it didn’t exist, it’s fictional the vehicle wasn’t made it’s based on a prototype that doesn’t even match the prototype it shouldn’t have been added to the game.
We said:
A) Nothing was final
B) it was possible other nations may get it too.
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I think you missed yesterday
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Is the IRST pod on the F/A-18F cosmetic or is it actually coming
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Will more Finnish hornets be planned or is your original statement that no more hornets will go to Finland final?
Is there more for today?
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REAL
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What do you mean yesterday
Would be funny if you can’t jettison it because it partly IRST lol
oh waw the image is huge and maybe not yesterday but the day before…
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Lord let it be the EX the US gets and not a Bug again 🙏
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Hell yeah brotha
I hope it not super bug 2.0 and i doubt US will get EX after we get F-15GCE… F-16 chance is more likely.
Well…kinda like RU getting Flanker after Flanker!