Do CFTs Only Contain Fuel !

[Basel]

CFTs will affect stealth so they are unlikely for stealth jets, besides if they do need to ferry them for long range it would be easier to add fuel cells inside their internal weapon bays.

Not necessarily, if CFTs are designed for stealth bird then they will be designed being stealth.

This is how CFTs are used to have weapons and for lower RCS.

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

An F-15E Strike Eagle with CFTs added beneath the wing roots.

A French Rafale with CFTs added to the spine of the fuselage.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet with CFTs added above the wing root.



https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-dont-new-u-s-air-force-f-16s-use-these-futuristic-1712746714

 

[Shabi1]

PAF F-6 with CFT.

PAF invented "Gondola Tank"

 

[WarKa DaNG]

How many PAF F-16s are equipped with CFT?

 

[Shabi1]

How many PAF F-16s are equipped with CFT?

PAF has 18 F-16 Blk-52s only they can be equipped with CFTs.

Rest of fleet are F-16 AM/BMs which have same electronics but 7 hard points instead of 9.

 

[Windjammer]

PAF has 18 F-16 Blk-52s only they can be equipped with CFTs.

Rest of fleet are F-16 AM/BMs which have same electronics but 7 hard points instead of 9.

They all have 9 Hard points.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

Rest of fleet are F-16 AM/BMs which have same electronics but 7 hard points instead of 9.

Werent they upgraded to Blk 52 in turkey?

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Werent they upgraded to Blk 52 in turkey?

Upgraded to MLU which I think are block 40 standard

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Werent they upgraded to Blk 52 in turkey?

@Windjammer

 

[Windjammer]

Werent they upgraded to Blk 52 in turkey?

They are almost as capable as Block-52s but still lack some capabilities like they can't adopt CFTs.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

They are almost as capable as Block-52s but still lack some capabilities like they can't adopt CFTs.

In this pic one of the access panel looks like open.

 

[Windjammer]

In this pic one of the access panel looks like open.
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That's a ventilation for gases when the 20mm Cannon is firing.