Just for clarification, unless I’m running on old info, I think it was the “orange guy” said that other Chinese guy might have mistook some JP plane for F-2. It could also be possible the orange guy mistook the F-2 for something else with the mentality of, “surely it can’t be F-2 with AESA”.
Kind of a tossup really, but just mentioning cause I don’t want to rule it out without more information. Especially since other random lists keep including it (and the Type 90 premium). Kinda reminds me of the F-15 showing up on a lot of lists in December and people saying it’s fake and we saw how that turned out lol.
I concur. I spent a few hours looking through photos of different Indian Jaguar variants photographed since the 2000s and was unable to find any photos of Jaguar IS with the original Ferranti nose where the starboard gun has been removed, or Litening or RecceLite pod is carried in place of that gun
Deletion of the gun and ability to carry a targeting pod is a feature of completely different variants to the one Gaijin have modelled. Second letter of the serial donates whether the aircraft was built as a Jaguar IS, Jaguar IM or Jaguar IB/IT
From what I’ve observed with other JS160-JS179 serialed Jags, Jaguar IS JS170 is most likely either still a DARIN-I aircraft with LRMTS nose and 2 cannons, or has been converted to DARIN-III with the EL/M-2052 AESA radar and the gun starboard gun removed, provision for TGP, and a spotlight installed on the starboard intake.