Current War Thunder top tier aircraft use rather uncommon load outs compared to their real life counterparts, most people usually talk about Better IR missiles or upgraded Fox-3s and ground munitions, but I rarely see anyone talking about targeting pods, so I would like to introduce newer more advanced targeting pods such as the Sniper targeting pod used on aircraft already in game such as the F-16C Blk 50 for the US and Blk 40s for Israel. and F-15E and F-15I as well as the A-10C, Tornado GR4, Harrier GR9 (Yes not in game but maybe👀) and The Eurofighter typhoons, other nations derivatives could also be added like the FILAT for China or upgraded inner pods for the Russians since they have no external targeting pods currently in service. This is my conclusion to the introduction of more advanced external or internal targeting pods for various top tier aircraft.
Harrier Gr7 used it as well. But Im guesing it will be one of the upgrades that will come with the GR9. And it had more than enough upgrades to justify coming, hopefully this year.
But yes. more advanced TPods, but also overall better TPod implementation would be good
At some point there’s diminishing returns for more and more advanced pods in war thunder.
The current Damocles and LITENING 3 are more than enough for what I need in War Thunder gameplay.
Ahh I did not know that the GR7 used them as well, thank you very much!
For both Gr7/9s they bought and fit the pods to the airframes for use in Afghanistan. But never purchased the integration. So the cockpits just used the MFDs for the TIALD. So whilst it functioned correctly, none of the buttons lined up with what they said they did :D
I absolutely think that CAS at top tier should be fixed with better SPAAs, my current problem is that Gaijin keeps adding longer and longer range Munitiond for aircraft far exceeding the limited range of these current targeting pods, also the fact that things like the Litening and Lantirn are rarely used IRL by these militaries, I’m an aviation photographer and I catch F-16C block 50s a lot and they always have Sniper targeting pods
The range limitations is something Gaijin codes, most could and should have far better lock ranges than they do currently.
In gameplay terms, the dev priority is very low for a bit more historically accurate pod.
I suppose the grey area becomes aircraft like the Harrier Gr7/9 stuck with a Gen 1 tpod in the form of TIALD if there is no Sniper. Could it just get Litening III as a placeholder until Sniper or would Sniper be needed. Could Sniper just be a reskinned Litening III for now?
Oh ya definitely, this is just an idea that I wouldn’t mind seeing being implemented in future updates, I mean they probably have to add them at some point, especially jf they’re ever going to add 5th gen aircraft or more advanced upgrades of the 4.5s we already have in game
Yeah. 20km is a hard limit in-game. Made since before but now it hurts many newer weapons.