I mean, it does get external fuel tanks in real life, and most pictures do have it WITH fuel tanks like this example:

and even most sales and air-shows have it with external fuel tanks. So why not add it in the game? Wouldn’t it be more realistic if done so?
It would. But that would mean gaijin needs to put in work to add them. And to be honest these fuel tanks don’t really come into play that often.
Honestly fair enough when fuel tanks aren’t that useful in 8.0 and it doesn’t have afterburners but I was just questioning realism here it’s not that big deal for me though