Thai OCUs have not been modernized and cannot carry BVR missiles such as AMRAAM, but the F-16 OCU in today’s devlog was equipped with AMRAAM, so the F-16A(e)MLU should be implemented instead of the OCU. This one is a modernized aircraft with enhanced radar and avionics, adapted BVR missiles and JHMCS. I think this one is more suitable for War thunder.
Lockheed-Martin F-16A Block 15 (e)MLU - Royal Thai Air Force's Renovated Falcon
Just removed AIM-120 AMRAAM from F-16A OCU only in dev server
My opinion, gaijin could add F-16A ADF this year before F-16AM eMLU
Also seem to have python 3?
Thailand got all 12 first F-16 order are of the block 15OCU(Operational Capability Upgrade) variety after 1987, and from 1988 onwards, all Block 15’s were built to OCU specifications.
Actually, every Italian Chinese or other countries F-16A Block 15OCU/20/MLUs can fire AIM-120, OCU and MLU was built for that.
But now only Thailand F-16A OCU can fire AIM-120.
ofc they can Gripen C are not the only plane that can fire AMRAAM in royal Thai air force
(Their Gripen C and F-16 even had IRIS-T pretty modern for SEA air force)
Thailand equips only F-16A(e)MLU, Jas39c and F-5E TH with BVR missiles.
To be fair they did operate 16 ADF variants as well, which used AMRAAM. They also upgraded 18 of their OCUs to MLU standard in the early 2010s, which allowed them to use AMRAAM among other things. This was a separate upgrade from the more recent (e)MLU and is probably what the one in game is supposed to represent.
F16OCU need to get the realistic load outs, maybe python 4?
No. OCU is armed correctly with aim9m x 6 or aim9p-4 x 6. It might be possible to have 6 Python3s, but I don’t know because I don’t have any pictures of them mounted.
Well, we know it can likely carry Pythons cause Israel put Pythons on an older F-16 model.
I saw an image of an OCU equipping AIM-120s as well though I lost it as a rage-closed all the related tabs and forgot to save it. -_-
I’ve seen a few articles and qebsites state Thai F-16s use Python 3, but I haven’t actually seen images of it. My guess is it might’ve been assumed since they were integrated with the upgraded F-5E, but not actually done.
That being said,Python 3 on an F-16 is nothing completely unheard of, and the weapon was in Thai inventory, so there isn’t really anything stopping Gaijin to add it anyways.
18 Thai OCUs were upgraded to MLU standard in the early 2010s, that included AMRAAM integration since it was mainly intended to combine the capabilities of the ADF (AMRAAM) and OCU (CAS).
Just a bit weird they chose an MLU over the more unique Thai specific (e)MLU.
I more care about it being either named correctly, or replacing the YF-16 Japan Demonstrator [F-16AJ].
Though IF AIM-120s are correct, then I can’t really do much of that.
Apparently f5t can also use the Iris-t
Yeah, it sould probably be named MLU rather than OCU, before the upgrade Thai OCU couldn’t carry AMRAAM
F-16AJ (the proposal) was not really the demonstrator, but an implementation of the tech tested with it. The demonstrator itself for example lacked any radar, which was obviously included with the AJ design.
It might count as unfinished prototype, but since the demonstrator preceded the F-16J project and wasn’t specifically made for Japan it might be a hard sell.
But current AJ is just a completely fictional F-16A-10 / ADF hybrid that should have the visual model corrected, as well as the missing landing gear Sparrows and GBU-8 added.
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It is not. The YF-16 never mounted radar, and also had other visual differences to the Block 10 airframe we see in game (also to the AJ, which was based on the Block 10 but did feature further changes).
Loadouts are also not the same, the YF-16 tested Sparrows on landing gear, the two outer underwing and wingtip pylons, we only have 2 of those 8 in game and the two we have are not the ones preswnted in the AJ brochure.
There’s also no “Japan Demonstrator” for the F-16AJ. The F-16 was only ever presented to Japan for the initial F-16J, a basic, unmodified export Block 10.
Though the aircraft presented to Japan was the YF-16, it did not carry sparrows while doing so, and the proposal didn’ include Sparrow capability yet.
If it’s renamed to YF-16A, 3D model is adjusted and radar is removed and the only Sparrows capable of being launched (but not guided) are the landing gear mounted ones I will accept it as YF-16.
But since it’s in the Japanese tree, and named after the F-16AJ proposal I will assume it is intended to be that.
What does the (e) MLU do compared to the MLU?
New radar, more countermeasures, HMD and a better targeting pod.
Checking the suggestion for the (e)MLU again, it seems the earlier upgrades like initial AMRAAM integration were also part of the (e)MLU upgrade, just one of 3 separate phases.
I think a “complete” (e)MLU would’ve been more interesting, while an unupgraded OCU without AMRAAM could’ve replaced the AJ.
YF-16 version whatever obviously mounted a radar to fire the AIM-7 it was pictured firing.
The AIM-7 test bed YF-16 was a Block 10 airframe with minor external modifications.
The pictures of YF-16 you provided are a different version that didn’t go to Japan.
The YF-16 proposed to Japan couldn’t carry 4 AIM-7s.*
Well if they did that then gaijin would be forced to admit that the mlu can carry amraams and they have been reluctant so far.
