Excellent but can you also set this to ADF-01 Falken sir because I believe it would make more sense and I have never flown an F-35 so please forgive me if I overstep my limits. Also I am more and more curious about your next project.
IRL, drone integration is done to 5th generation fighters, with F-35 being one most shown as an example (although it's usually not C variant), flying with XQ-58 Valkyrie drone. Another choice is Su-57 with S-70 drone.
I wanted to have this feature for a base game (non-DLC, non-mod) plane
F-35C has a rather underwhelming loadout in the base game: SOD does not really have a place to shine as best choice among A2Gs, the plane itself is not the best 4AAM platform, and 8AGM suffers from low ammo count and 4-stacking a single target. Knowing those, it's understandable that you've never flown the plane
I have not made any loadout swaps for F-35C yet.
All above combined, I see this as a chance to turn F-35C from a rather underwhelming choice to a long-range weapons platform with a niche of having a UAV to assist. I gave it single-target loadout so it has control over what target to pick off from a distance one-by-one, with 1AAM and 1AGM getting increased salvo count (matching the number of missiles loaded on the plane) for faster target elimination and 1HLMM being a LAAM & LACM combined. Hopefully that will make F-35C more appealing as a choice, at least for mod users. Historically, ADF-01 has been a UAV platform - Z.O.E. - back in Ace Combat 2 and AHL (using a slightly different model, now existing as addon ADFX-00 by Rythus), but never been shown to fly with UAVs as wingmen. Therefore it would make more sense to give it to:
A plane closest to IRL example of UAV Wingman platform - F-35, with C model being the only choice for non-DLC non-mod. Still unsure if I should make one for Su-57 (with different features) considering I've made a loadout mod for Su-57 already, and/or DLCs and mods (5th Gen Fighter from TGM pack, F-35B by Urvo, J-20 by Fantasma&Naruto607(Addon ver))
A plane actually shown to have UAV Wingman capability (fictionals included) - ADF-11F
Next project(s) still undecided, as there are issues on my previous mods reported by users that need resolving (might work on them and next project once decided somewhat simultaneously).
can i humbly request another mod? can you please make mihaly ai in mission 7 do extremely frequent post stall maneuvers, this way you can make a mod that i really want.
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- IRL, drone integration is done to 5th generation fighters, with F-35 being one most shown as an example (although it's usually not C variant), flying with XQ-58 Valkyrie drone. Another choice is Su-57 with S-70 drone.
- I wanted to have this feature for a base game (non-DLC, non-mod) plane
- F-35C has a rather underwhelming loadout in the base game: SOD does not really have a place to shine as best choice among A2Gs, the plane itself is not the best 4AAM platform, and 8AGM suffers from low ammo count and 4-stacking a single target. Knowing those, it's understandable that you've never flown the plane
- I have not made any loadout swaps for F-35C yet.
All above combined, I see this as a chance to turn F-35C from a rather underwhelming choice to a long-range weapons platform with a niche of having a UAV to assist. I gave it single-target loadout so it has control over what target to pick off from a distance one-by-one, with 1AAM and 1AGM getting increased salvo count (matching the number of missiles loaded on the plane) for faster target elimination and 1HLMM being a LAAM & LACM combined. Hopefully that will make F-35C more appealing as a choice, at least for mod users.Historically, ADF-01 has been a UAV platform - Z.O.E. - back in Ace Combat 2 and AHL (using a slightly different model, now existing as addon ADFX-00 by Rythus), but never been shown to fly with UAVs as wingmen. Therefore it would make more sense to give it to:
Next project(s) still undecided, as there are issues on my previous mods reported by users that need resolving (might work on them and next project once decided somewhat simultaneously).