Workhorse: F-16A Block 5

the RAF won the war because they Returned to base and Kept fighting

I’ve achieved a for my skill very high K/D in the F5A(G) this way

My K/D in the F-5E FCU is at 4-1.

I could not RTB without being jumped in the sea harrier.

Mickey mouse plane in Mickey mouse game mode. Nobody cares.

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/3MZN9SAJZZZn

Bug report for Blon5 engine. Should make it worse in all game modes and result in relevant down tier. Hopefully the first 12.0 F-16 in sim.

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You were the one going on about reporting it lol.

Timewaste…

did they ever upgrade the engine

Razor!!!

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Can I hard focus specific people and follow them across lobbies if I please or is that not allowed

I don’t think there is any evidence that they did. Iirc there is EM diagram available for it with the earlier engine.

by the time the engine/mlu upgrade rolled around for the epaf fleet (roughly about 1995 and later) everything was already converted to at least bl10 standard from 83 onwards via pacer loft so there wouldn’t be any bl5s around by then

@Stona_WT - I disagree with the balance applied to this F-16A model. For simulation battles, it has a rating of 12.7, whereas in the Israeli line (Netz and its premium modification), similar but better versions are rated at 12.3.

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It should be noted that the French line version, the Belgian F-16A with better weapons and AIM-9M, is rated at 12.7. There is no balance parity.

That said, I formally request that the battle rating in air simulation mode be reconsidered and reduced to 12.3.

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those are AB BRs, at RB BRs they’re all 12.7

No! Go to WT Wiki and see for yourself. That BR in the image is the ranking for Air Simulation. I don’t play AB mode.

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Can we at least get another skin that isn’t the default barebones skin or the ugly fictional fire horse one? There’s so many cool liveries for Dutch F-16’s, yet only two were added (as a gamble crate skin I might add).

Who am I kidding, if there is a skin added to this plane it’s just gonna be a Belgian skin like basically every Dutch jet added

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We definetly need the skin of the Mig Killer. And the orange demonstration one from 2009

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Yup, lots of possibilities. For the block 5 alone we have:

  • J-252 1983 anniversary livery
  • J-616 1986 anniversary livery
  • J-864 1988 demonstration livery
  • J-058/060 1990 demonstration livery
  • J-213/226(the one in game ffs)/231 1991 demonstration livery
  • J-197/619 1991 anniversary livery
  • J-229 2004 YF-16 livery

And for the later blocks (f-16am in game):

  • J-004/012 1991 tiger meet livery
  • J-864/878 1991 anniversary livery
  • J-145/206 1992 anniversary livery
  • J-063 1992 anniversary livery
  • J-136/142 1993 anniversary livery
  • J-215/218 1993 anniversary livery
  • J-193/624 1993 solo display livery
  • J-142 1994 anniversary livery
  • J-136 1994 anniversary livery
  • J-251/253 demo livery
  • J-360 1995 football livery
  • J-001/003 1995 demo livery
  • J-508 1995 demo livery
  • J-058 1996 anniversary livery
  • J-879 anniversary livery
  • J-364 1997 demo livery
  • J-145/257 1997 anniversary livery
  • J-230 1997 tiger meet livery
  • J-877 anniversary livery (though doubt this one would be happened; boob art :3)
  • J-636 1998 anniversary livery
  • J-868 1998 training livery
  • J-236 1998 anniversary livery
  • J-230 1998 anniversary livery (another boob art or covered up one)
  • J-248 1999 anniversary livery (yet another boob art)
  • J-220/231 1999 NATO anniversary
  • J-624 1999 test livery for airshow
  • J-864 2000 april 1st police livery (could be a funny historical one)
  • J-202 2000 olympics livery
  • J-016 2001 demo livery
  • J-002 2001 open days livery
  • J-875 2001 NATO anniversary livery
  • J-018 2002 anniversary livery
  • J-234 2002 anniversary livery
  • J-063 2003 anniversary livery
  • J-234 2003 anniversary livery
  • J-366 2003 anniversary livery
  • J-234 2004 post stamp (?) livery
  • J-511 2004 red bull livery
  • J-055 2005 demo livery (already in game, but I’ll just mention it)
  • J-248 2005 website livery for exhibits (not that special)
  • J-640 2006 anniversary livery
  • J-642 2006 anniversary livery
  • J-199 2006 goodbye livery
  • J-876 2008 anniversary livery
  • J-008 2008 anniversary livery
  • J-881 2008 open days livery
  • J-015 2009 solo display livery (likely most famous dutch livery; Orange Lion)
  • J-630 2010 RIAT livery (not that special, just some tail markings
  • J-055 2010 tiger meet livery
  • J-222 2010 tiger meet livery (non-operational plane however, and pretty close to Belgian FA-94 livery)
  • J-367 2011 anniverary/goodbye livery
  • J-511 2011 anniversary livery
  • J-875 2011 goodbye livery
  • J-196 2012 tiger meet livery
  • J-196 2013 tiger meet livery
  • J-006 2013 anniversary livery
  • J-002 2013 anniversary livery
  • J-003 2014 tiger meet livery
  • J-879 2018 anniversary livery
  • J-631 2018 experimental fuel livery
  • J-642 2019 anniversary livery
  • J-871 2021 anniversary livery

That took way too long to type. And these are only F-16A/AM models, excluding F-16B/BM and RF-16 models, as well as excluding simple squadron markings or mig killer for example.
Likely nobody will really read this, but this shows there are lots of options for potential skins for Dutch F-16’s

(also, source to all of these being the book “Kleurrijke KLu, 50 jaar speciale beschilderingen (inclusief de MLD)” by Cor van Gent. Great book for pictures btw)

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I just looked some of them up on google, they look so cool! So many possibilities!

The book sounds interesting as well!

@Smin1080p_WT - I hope you are well.

Will we still see a downgrade of the F-16A Block 5 for simulation until the release of the next major update?

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