While I would love for this to go through, I’m 100% expecting Gaijin to add “Late” variants of the F-15C and F-16C.
Specifically, the F-16C “Late” would probably end up being the F-16C PoBIT, which brings Block 40/50s up to Block 70 standards. PoBIT adds the APG-83 SABR along with 20+ other major and minor upgrades.
The F-15C “Late” will probably just get the APG-63(V)3 AESA radar and access to AIM-120C-5s.
Both of these planes will probably end up getting 9Xs in the future. I’m not sure the same can be said for the current F-15C MSIP-II and F-16C, but I guess only time will tell.
As of making this comment, C5 got reworked. They got less drag, loft, and pulls slightly more than A/Bs.
In short, ATM it’s a very weak upgrade on maneuverability and overall performance. So i don’t know if anyone still wants that missile when the overload upgrade at a slight cost on range was the main selling point in the first place.
Thanks for the update. Still the ‘maneuverability selling point’ stands due to the AOA changes. It won’t be significantly more maneuverable and it will be absurdely on par with the rest kinematically speaking.
True but making us grind a 4th f15/16 is utterly idiotic, pobits got a good radar but gajinn wouldnt model it properly for the sake of “balance”, tbh its mot that hard for gajinn to copy paste like idk 4 lines of codes to allow the other planes to get c5 capabilities
Wouldnt really matter to me imo, i use the amraam as a medium (and by that i mean anything over 5km) range missile and at those ranges it requires little maneuverability
It would be fair enough if the US/AIM-120-reliant nations had a solution for short ranges other than out maneuvered and easily flared AIM-9Ms, but they don’t. Hence the emphasis on the AOA issue.
I agree but with the arrival of the aim-9x (somehow not even coded lmao) on the slamraam and irs-t i fully expect them to be playable in the not so far futur, what im afraid off though is gajinn deciding to give the 9x to hornets only just because “slow jet”
