only 2 remaining to complete the happy family 🥹
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I wonder how they will go about implementing it if they’ll go with what’s known to have been used on the airframe or what was clearly planned for if it went into production.
Hopefully it will have it’s planned equipment otherwise it will just get a gun, 2 x AIM-9L, and no flares.
Also if we will see the twin seat F-16XL-2 at some point as well.
Why did they put a gepard turret on it
everyone put a gepard turret on everything
Quick browse on Wikipedia:
The F-16XL could carry twice the ordnance of the F-16A and deliver it 50% farther. The enlarged wing and strengthened hardpoints allowed for a highly configurable payload:
16× 1,000 pounds (450 kg) wing hardpoints
5× 2,000 pounds (910 kg) wing hardpoints
4× semi-recessed AIM-120 AMRAAM stations under fuselage
2× wingtip stations
1× centerline station
2× wing “heavy/wet” stations
2× chin LANTIRN stations
For export, OTO Melara wanted to attract as many buyers as possible with as many platforms as possible.
Unfortunately only the Palmaria and the OF-40 Mk1 and mk2 were successful
Marksmen turret is different.
yeah ik but same guns same style so who really cares
can it carry guided munition?
Yes that’s what was planned. During testing the only live ordnance it carried was the 1000lbs bombs, AGM-65’s, and AIM-9Ls. It did carry mockup AMRAAMs on the belly pylons but never had live ones during the testing but those were part of it’s planned equipment if it had won against the F-15E.
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They still aren’t the same things those 35mm oerlikon were on everything including many turrets they weren’t just gepards
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Time to stop the grind for the Ariete AMV and focus solely on this one.
Now let’s patiently wait for the italian PzH 2000 to come out of the files…
you are way to specific, i see it as 35mm oerlikon = gepard style
ok so not that great for cas still, although were getting stormbreakers on the f15e so who cares
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catch up dude everyones passed that one, were talking about the f16xl for some reason idk why it came up but it did
It won’t be the best for CAS but it should be able to multi-role pretty good as it can carry 6 Mavericks + 4 AMRAAMs + 2 AIM-9Ls at the same time.
to me it sounds like a worse gripen c