No, that was a test. Combat use of those F-15Cs is supposed to have begun in December of 2000.
The F-2 has never even seen combat
And as for testing I’ve seen people say as early as like 1988
That would’ve been testing of the radar outside of any aircraft from what I understand. In that case the J/APG-1, or more accurately a prototype leading up to it intended for Japan’s domestic FS-X before US intervention was already built and tested before 1986. This project was cancelled due to the political pressure from the US to scrap the domestic plan based on “cost”, in favor of the collaborative FS-X project that became the F-2.
The actual J/APG-1 was first fitted to the fourth prototype of the F-2, the XF-2B serial 63-8102 in late 1995 to early 1996. Production of the F-2 was approved in mid 1996 and they were first serviced in 1999, same year as the F-15C with APG-63(V)2 service/field testing and iirc only few weeks apart. I don’t recall which of these was first though.
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VSEL Vickers GBT 155 Prototype based on Vickers Mk.3 hull
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Lightning strikes.
XN725 in one of her many guises. Here she is dressed as an F3 complete with finned tanks and hitchhiker.
Seems both M46(M3A1) and M47(T119 aka M36)
and M48 used the lightweight version of T119 i.e T139 aka M41 … so might be possible?
and M56 used recoil-modified M41 i.e M54 … so might be possible as well?
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At least put some effort in your Photoshop skills…
Show me your 'shoppin skills …
and this ain’t my work … just a fun “What-If”, thought I’d share
The T42 with the T119 gun can be introduced with the T82E23 APFSDS
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Either way F-2 was built with AESA from the ground up where as F-15C was not so still a pretty significant achievement i would say.
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Jordanian KADDB M60-120 AB9B1 from 1999
Upgraded with 120mm CTG L/50 gun (live-fired OFL 120 F1 APFSDS) and Raytheon’s Integrated Fire Control System (IFCS).
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J-10B, J-11B, J-15A, HQ-17A, TYPE-96B. You seem to have named the rest.
+Type 62Gai, Type 86A, PLZ-89, PLL-05, PLL-09, PLZ-45, PLZ-07, ZTQ-15
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Bring back the Merkava mk2D at least for GE. Israel TT is limited enough. Why remove vehicles that were already available.
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Germany buys M-84A4 Sniper, in honor of the part of payment for Leo 2A8 - an excellent addition to the T-72M1 DDR 😂
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“Combat” is probably a mistranslation. What I meant most closely was “operational.” Back to the point. Raytheon, the manufacturer of the AN/APG-63v2, said it was operational in December 2000. The F-2 was operational in October 2000.
for *Ukraine
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Nope, first it goes as payment for part of the purchase of Leo 2, and then further. Sooooo
Do you have a source?
Antena Zadar: “Dogovorili smo zamjenu naše tehnike za zapadnu tehniku: 30 borbenih tenkova M84 i 30 oklopnih vozila M80 bit će do kraja godine upućeno u. Njemačka će ovu isporuku uzeti kao avans za nabavku do 50 tenkova najnovije generacije 2A8 a koji će se već početi izrađivati i isporučivati Hrvatskoj”, rekao je Anušić nakon susreta s Pistoriusom u Berlinu i dodao kako se prve isporuke njemačkih tenkova očekuju 2026."