F-36
Totally not a retextured to-199 with western weapons
– Unique skins (most of them are available through virtual garage)
– Dynamic loadout system adjusted to take western weapons
– New icons for multifunction display for corresponding western weapons
– 25mm fast firing cannon
– Radar
The F-36 Catshark is a multirole fighter aircraft created due to congress requirement to find an aircraft cheaper to operate and produce that would complement the successful F-35 program. The requirements set for the affordable multirole fighter stipulated finding an international partner to reduce overall program cost. The program finalist was a Northtop Grumman – Leonardo prototype which used M-346 as a basis, that was enlarged and massively re-engineered resulting in an entirely new airframe, at the similar time Russia undertook a upgrade program to their Yak-131 aircraft that resulted in similar looking Yak-135 (designated To-199 Neophron in CSAT service) which led to both sides accusing the other of stealing their design. The F-36 is equipped with and GAU-22/A rotary cannon, missile warning receivers, various sensors and countermeasures, it can carry a diverse armament on underwing hardpoint for true multirole capability. Nowadays it’s operated by various air forces including these of United States, Italy, Livonia, Poland and even Royal New Zealand Air Force’s recently reactivated air combat force.
To Bran Flakes for sharing a retexture template with me.
– I legally cannot change to cockpit texture so you just have to ignore it (same with wreck reverting to default CSAT when plane is destroyed but that’s less noticeable in my opinion)
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