If I recall correctly, the AIM-9F is also known as the AIM-9 FGW.2, which is a 9E seeker on a 9B
The EX I get, but aren’t the SA and QA just variants of the Strike Eagle?
sure.
The Su-27 gets more missiles overall, the ability to carry more IR missiles (that are better than the AIM-9Li), the ability to carry more radar missiles (although they’re SARH), and gets HMD.
It carries less missiles, does not carry the OP R-27ER, does not have HMD, does not have a >30G IR missile, can only carry four IR missiles, can only carry four SARH missiles.
The Mirage 20005F is fair, but the real contemporary (due to ARH) for comparison would be the Su-27SM.
The 4000 lacks HMD, good SARH missiles, the ability to carry more than two SARH if it carries six IR missiles, and has worse IR missiles.
The F-15C isn’t a missile bus, though. The F-15E is.
No. They inherit the tandem cockpit and strengthened wing from the Strike Eagles, which rates them for 20,000 flight hours. But the true difference between a Strike Eagle and the Advanced Eagle is the flight controls. The former is still hydromechanical with control rods and pulleys throughout the jet. The latter is a move to a true Fly-by-wire system, which is what actually allows for the outboard pylons tonbe used.
That makes sense, at least. Were there any earlier variants with the full fly-by-wire system?
The F111 missing it’s 9Js
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AIM-9F is AIM-9B FGW.2
Obligatory Iranian upgraded jets using R-73 posting :D
(F-4 & F-5 respectively)
Also:
We’ve been on this topic before, it’s not as simple as slapping an Aim-120 on a pylon and calling it a day. They had a whole fkn program just to add 120 compatibility and capability to the F-4s in Germany (and another in Japan to add the XAAM-4 to their F-4EJ Kai ADTW, there’s a forum suggestion for it out that you can read up on if you’re interested). It needed a whole new radar as well as updated software and configurations to be able to use said weaponry, there isn’t a single F-4 that could use the Aim-120 during its entire service life, which extended up to the late 1990s, that should say enough about this topic as it is.
Also on the topic of the upgrades to the Iranian jets: the F-14 should have the R-27s at all, and neither should the F-4s, as the program to install and allow for compatibility ultimately failed and the radars and missiles couldn’t really behave with one another, leading to the integration attempt being abandoned. Hopefully gaijin changes it for the sake of historical accuracy, but if they don’t then idc anymore.
Also yes, the respective F-4s that could carry the Agm-88 should get them ingame. Long overdue…
Aim-9Es especially
which is ingame and not missing from the F-4F like you claimed
No
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Ahh yes, Yes that’s the one I was thinking of but forgot the name as of typing this, So definite thanks for this.
Furthermore, I wish the devs would get around to remaking the currently hordgepodge IJA Type 5 Escort Boat as that vessel is a mess but iirc it had a similar system that launched aerial mines into the air, (iirc it’s simply called the AA mine discharger).
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Good for you. You found a picture. Its doesn’t change what the manuals say. Stations 1 & 9 are not available due to the instability they cause.
Attention, there will be a lot of planes from Japan here.
- Ki-67 (all versions)
- Guided Bomb Igo-1-A (Ki-147)
- Guided Bomb Ke-Go
- Ki-102
- Guided Bomb Igo-1-B (Ki-148)
- 50 kg bombs
- 100 kg bombs
- 250 kg bombs
- 500 kg bombs
- 800 kg bombs
- The correct ammunition for the 57mm Ho-401 gun
- F-104J
- AAM-1
- AAM-2
- AIM-4D
- J/ALQ-4
- F-86F-40
- AAM-1
- AN-M30 bombs
- AN-M57 bombs
- AN-M64 bombs
- F-86F-30
- AN-M30 bombs
- AN-M57 bombs
- AN-M64 bombs
- T-2
- GCS-1
- AAM-1
- F-1
- GCS-1
- AAM-1
- ASM-1
- ASM-2
- J/ALQ-6
- F-4EJ
- AAM-2
- F-4EJ Kai
- AAM-3
- GCS-1
- GCS-2
- ASM-1
- ASM-2
- ASM-2B
- J/ALQ-6
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The instabilities were due to a lack of Fly By Wire systems early on. These aircraft are outfitted with a kind of early on FBW. The CAS or Control Augmented System was refined more and more over time. By the time the MSIP was in full swing, the outboard pods could be run without any issues. So it should be implemented, as the upgraded bird CAN handle them…
CAS is not even close to FBW. It just takes information about airspeed and altitude and modifies control inputs. Even Strike Eagles with their further computerized flight control system cannot use stations 1 & 9. You don’t have any idea what you are talking about.
I am pretty sure its the opposite if you don’t understand how CAS and FBW are related and that CAS is essentially an analog early FBW system. Which… if you don’t know… improves stability. The wings aren’t going to rip off. We know it works. We know they can be loaded on the F15C, and we know they don’t rip apart with the external pylons.
Not to mention the F15C model can use the wing Quad and Centerline Dual Pods. So it still has the wrong loadout:
So even without the new FBW version of the F15, it still is lacking because the centerline dual pylons are missing.
I guarantee I understand the F-15s flight control system better than you ever will.
This was just a fit check on the ground, never flew. And the AMBER racks for CFTs have not been purchased.
They are not centerline, they are CFT mounted.
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