yeah but yak 141never had radar to guide its missiles mig 29a models never had r27er have weapons there not supposed to its a pre production model taken off the line before being armed all you gotta do is make a few wholes
At least that stuff was actively planned.
I’m pretty sure demonstrators like the F/A-18 HARV, X-29, XV-6A Kestrel, BAE EAP, etc were specifically made to not have weaponry, as they were just demonstrating or testing new technologies.
The Yak-141 is more comparable to something like the F-20 Tigershark, in that it was a prototype of an aircraft that had at least some of its capabilities demonstrated, with the rest being outright planned out for the production model (which never came to be in the Freestyle’s case because of the collapse of then nation that built it).
german f104g never had flares F5C and F5A never had aim9E or flares
MIG 29A have R.73 and not R27ER F15A never had flares etc etc
This is starting to get very off topic, but I will at least correct your assertion about the F-15A “never having flares”. There were a number upgraded with equipment from MSIP II (a program that sought to upgrade the F-15C/D in the early-mid 1980s) for the Air National Guard. One of the upgrades would be Chaff/Flare dispensers.
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my apoligies i meant it never had aim9J german mig21 pfm never had r13 and r60m so just giving it weapons from the standard model and adding isnt really that big of a a deal as its basically a F/A-18A model so it get some AIM-7M and AIM-9M
so there are more versions that can be added: Swiss F/A-18C/D and F/A-18C/D Upgrade 25 (MLU) (German TT), Spanish EF-18A/B and F-18A+/B+ (Italian TT), Canadian CF-188A/CF-18A (British TT) and Australian F/A-18A/B (British TT)
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