Loadout or pylons under modern military jets

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    Just an early morning thought. Military jets are often seen with loadouts under their wings. I was wandering if it would be more realistic to have our two military jets, the Eagle and the Hornet, with their wings loaded in Aerofly FS Global. Even if devs don’t want to add visible weapons, why not to add fuel tanks? Hornets are often seen with one fuel tank under the central pylon, for example. And it could be also more realistic if these planes could have their pylons added. Even without fuel tanks or weapons, in real life they rarely have their pylons removed, even when they display at airshows. What do you think?

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    It's a good idea and we actually have already modeled such external loads. But currently there is no easy method to select these options, other than binding them to a certain livery and there is no method to drop external loads yet either. And that would be the most important part, e.g. if you want to drop the fuel tanks after they are depleted to reduce your drag and regain the maximum airspeed or if you want to get below your max landing weight...

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    It's a good idea and we actually have already modeled such external loads. But currently there is no easy method to select these options, other than binding them to a certain livery and there is no method to drop external loads yet either. And that would be the most important part, e.g. if you want to drop the fuel tanks after they are depleted to reduce your drag and regain the maximum airspeed or if you want to get below your max landing weight...


    I agree. But just pylons for the Hornet could be appreciated…😊