the only people who will play this are cucks. If this was a Russian jet it would have every feature plus some imaginary weapons.
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How does playing this make them cucks?
because they’re just asking to be screwed over and there’s better options
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Semantics, but the airframes are still going to be classified as 50/52s, just with capabilities equivalent to 70/72s. Will matter for accuracy’s sake if they decide to add actual block 70/72s, for example from a mideast country to Britain, or (god forbid) Taiwan to China.
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Taiwanese M2K is there already, their Block 70 F-16C to fill the 14.3 gap would work quite well.
I’m just happy gaijin probably isn’t thinking of adding the UAE F-16E/F. It’ll be the whole Israeli F-15 situation all over again
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Why would any Mideast vehicle go to Britain? (unless its a British origin vehicle)
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How many counter measures is it expected to carry?
I don’t know man, you can’t seem to understand energy retention
It would require Gaijin to actually implement all PoBIT features as well as CFTs, so yeah.
It doesn’t fit their “look AESA how cool it is” narrative
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There are a number of planes (Rafale, Eurofighter, etc) that don’t have all of their capabilities modelled. The bulk of the F-16V’s capabilities for Taiwan could be, CFT is already a thing on the F-15E/F-16I (they are optional btw, you don’t have to equip them; iirc irl F-16I’s CFTs take ~3 hours to take off).
The only true “unique” F-16 upgrade would be UAE’s F-16E/F, as they’re the only ones with the much beefier GE-132 engine (last I checked, anyway).
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Don’t forget the nose-mounted IRST too
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Gaijin-flavored 120D missile + the worst infrared missile with overload + phased array radar that everyone has in the new version + reverse-graded combustion chamber thrust + pitiful 6 active radar missiles + annoying R&D quantity = a pile of shit 💩.
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The Desert Warrior, Khalid, and the Lightning F53 are the precedent I’m thinking of. They couldn’t really go anywhere else
Not the Al Khalid, you are thinking about the Khalid, which is entirely different from the Al Khalid.
War thunder naming conventions at its finest.
potential MAW for the f-16C blk 52
upvote so gaijin mods actually see it
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/VbXXDgne7caK
Gotta make a new topic discussion that gathers all the info that the devs “miss” to implement.
Corrected. Oops
[DEV] PIDS and PIDS+ pylons missing the ability to use missiles. // Gaijin.net // Issues
Hopefully we can get this fixed!
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Okay, well, now were calling it the PoBIT, I’m guessing without about half the electronics functional in game. So when are you dropping it and pretty much every F-16 in BR, least on the Arcade side?
As is with this thing - your using an engine that makes no sense in this game with afterburner being king - where the GE engine is better. Hell - look up information about how many Block 30/40/50 aircraft with the GE engine have been built and sold vs Block 32/42/52 aircraft with the P&W engine while block 42 is close, block 30 and 50 more than 4 times as many were made and sold of Block 32 and 52. Block 52 should be a folder vehicle as is - a plane with somewhat different performance that maybe someone finds useful in a scenario or how they play. The main thing to be more competitive should be based on a Block 50.
And even then - if I wasn’t an Arcade player who could go ‘lol, I bring all the planes cause I can’, why would I fly this thing over other 14.3 options even in the US tree given the meta? the 15GE and 18E are getting the 120D’s too right? In a meta practically determined by ARH at that point - why would I go for a plane that only has 6 of them, when I have 2 options that have literally double that, both of which can carry that max with at least something else to hit ground targets, or trade a couple missiles and still have more to do way more, one of which has additional countermeasures, and the other which can also still bring an additional 2 IR missiles. Depending on how good the 120D is against other missiles like the R-77 and it’s foreign sale counterparts, maybe it gets away with 13.7 having better missiles but fewer of them.
Same with the already in game Block 50, ADF, and Block 10 in terms of US planes. At 13.7 - why wouldn’t I go for one of the options that has 8x ARH missiles, or that plus IR missiles? At 13.3 - why go with the ADF when the MiG-29SMT, N, and Su-30MK2 AMV all exist? Then again - it’s usually dragged up against the 13.7 and 14.3 aircraft with more/better missiles so it get’s pounded on anyway. And then the Block 10 at 12.3 with 6x 9L’s when by 11.7 most everything has SARH where that’s the meta and you have to hope the other team is just bad at paying attention to get close.
American F-14’s (not the Iranian one), the F-15A (and one or two other variants on the lower end), and at least 90% of the F-16’s if not all of them - unless the players have messed with their lineup to pull them down a BR stage - I basically never see these planes in Arcade unless someone has been shot down and used their backups on other planes in the lineup. And if it’s one where all 3 of those are present - the F-16 is usually the last, if not it’s the F-14. Some of these BR’s maybe made sense when they first entered - they don’t anymore. They are drastically out classed by things around them, or the weapons they have no don’t fit the meta they play in (the performance of AIM-54’s is so bad at this point it’s not even funny, especially with all the AMRAAM’s they see these days). And to come back to the point where this ties back in - you use the Block 52 as a base, and put this at 14.3 - this thing is going to be so far outclassed by it’s own tech tree counterparts, let alone other ones, that it’s going to be irrelevant, and likely unplayed, or not played much - the ‘well I’ve used the F-15GE and 18E already plus my backups for them, I guess this will have to do’ plane if they don’t also have crews in the previous F-15 and 18 models and use them over it. Or for the just diehard F-16 lovers who will just play it cause it’s an F-16 even though everything else has double the missiles to spam at it.
9M is still missing a ton of performance and where only on the
AIM-9M-4 the 5-6 would be a nice upgrade maybe the -7 it goes up to -10