No terminal guidance, heavier than the JDAM-ER, and equipped with the same warhead while aircraft carry less overall. So why was it added?
Its main real-world advantages are stealth and extended range. The former isn’t modeled in-game, and the latter is effectively irrelevant since the JDAM-ER already has more than enough range for every current map and game mode.
They even gave it a unique icon and placed it high in the modification tree, as if it offers any meaningful advantage over the JDAM-ER.
(Edit: now that Gaijin acknowledged working on ordnance rcs and adapted pseudo-stealth for the AGM-154 in nuclear thunder the weapon seems to slowly be properly implemented)
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it was added as base for the guided one maybe or stationary ai targets
i think in war thunder its like very slightly stealthy
not that stealth really works in war thunder
stealth is complicated and doesn’t work invisible to radar in real life its like a plane covered in chaff but at close ranges its still visible
stealth is like a plane covered in a material designed to attract radars?
you get the point of what Im Trying to say
nothing other than the f117 and Comanche have stealth modeled, all aircraft and ordnance, even tiny rockets and bombs get detected at max range. With proper stealth modeling the front aspect of an agm154 should be so small that radars in game should only detected it at a few km, actually giving it a purpose as an anti spaa weapon
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In its current implementation? I don’t think there really is a point. The L/JDAM-ER is available on all the same aircraft that the JSOW is available on, and will perform better in just about every situation. Reduced RCS for the JSOW would make it slightly more useful, but as it stands its just a GPS guided 1000lb class weapon with a 500lb warhead that was intended for FMS sales.
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It really needs it’s IR seeker added (which has the window for it on the model btw) and RCS modeled to be viable. What goes on in Gaijin devs minds when they added it, i have no clue…
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Only the AGM-154C variants have the IIR terminal seeker, which we don’t have in game yet. The window is on the model because the JSOW uses a common body, with only the internals changing between variants.
I meant basically replacing the A1 with the C model
I think it would be better if the base JSOW-A version was added, as it would fill a role that no other weapon in game could. I personally wouldn’t use the JSOW-C over Stormbreakers, but would absolutely use the JSOW-A. I also haven’t seen any documentation that states that the JSOW-C IIR seeker is capable of locking onto tank-sized moving targets.
Which is something only the Hornets and F-35B/C use
Nor is there any evidence the IIR seekers of the KH38, AGM-84, Hammer and LS-6 can do that but that didn’t stop Gaijin
Exactly the version in game wasn’t used for US aircraft it was the approved Foreign Sales variant. The AGM154C and C1 are the variants used by the US and carried on the F16CM PoBit , F-15C GE, F-15E SE, F/A-18E. Yet they continue to nerf American hardware but give the BMPT72 damn near invincible armor that of which even the T-72B3 doesn’t have FFS or the T90M or T-80BVM and etc.
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they could also replace it with the base 154A or the 154B to make it a more interesting weapon choice
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No JSOW on Swiss F18?
Just unlocked these and I am asking the same question.
Small warhead, no guidance apart from GNSS, and Pantsir can still shoot these things down from 10km away so no real stealth ability either.
What a waste of time
gaijin loves not implementing US tech as it should be, as the JSOW should have a reduced RCS for an already small target but individual weapon RCSs arn’t modeled
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