I don’t know why people still struggle with this: It’s common knowledge that WTD 61 used their Tornado for weapons testing over many years, and that this encompassed also the more modern weaponry like HARMs and guided bombs.
However - and that should also be clear by now - in WT this specific premium variant always was intended to represent a test Tornado in an early iteration, at the same technological level basically like the MFG variant, so with only the same weaponry as the MFG.
The ASSTA 1 variant in the tech tree then represent an already later iteration, with more advanced weaponry.
Maybe in this case the name was chosen suboptimally, implying this test variant would be equipped with all the bells and whistles ever tested, but basically it’s just a paint variant that gives it its name, as far as I see…
Just add the “Early” to it then and add another variant or something?
Also, should it share the same BR as a Yak-130? KAB-500kr to the face feels very nice when all your aviation has is maybe mavericks on a Hunter F.58 and only two planes of the entire 9.3-9.7 GRB BR having CCRP, in comparison.
mfw I give you a wall of text
“no sources”
yeah ok bro keep defending the billion dollar company
There is literally zero reason not to add more weapons to the Tonka. Just give it an appropriate BR, and boom problem solved, I have no idea why not also add multiple variants of it too considering how thin the German air TT is (zero vehicles between 13.0 and 14.0, seriously, and they’re also decompressing it, while not adding any new ones?)
Because thats the only thing even just mention the AGM-65, and Issue with that is that it comes from a VERY EARLY Stage with stuff which was Planned at some stage but never happend…
Do you even know what Sources are?
As example Pictures of the Weapons System on the Plane
ARMIGER on a Tornado IDS as example, or when it would be written in the Flight Manual (Must be Unclassiefied, otherwise you will Disappear)
If they give it MW1, sales would increase massively. Im tempted to get it in the sales exclusively for MW1 but i don’t want to risk it incase it doesn’t.
From what I know just the original 1980s and early 90s era could have used it (so ingame would be Tornado IDS and maybe 1995)
The only pictures I have ever seen it on Italian aircraft was just on test aircraft
Though like the Kormoran it has definitely been long retired, and I dont know if it was ever truly used operationally (probably was bought or stuff from testing was kept in storage). Unlike kormoran, there is no reason at all why you would do patrol missions with an anti-runway cluster bomb device
tl;dr italy had them in inventory but never used them (other than in for initial testing which Italy did most weapon integration for German and Italian side of the tornado program)
