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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch
And how does such an external weapons load reduce the stealthiness and effective range, amongst other things like handling?  |
Stealthiness would probably make it equal to say... the Typhoon.
Handling, well you can ditch them when entering a dogfight (they would be the weapons used first so the rails would most likely be empty) so it would not effect it much over the F-22 baseline.
For effective range it would increase it, those pylons (at least the two inboard ones) apparently can also carry a droptank. So it would
increase the range of the aircraft.