A J-10B took off from the same airport where the J-10B in the quoted post landed:
J-10 Thread IV
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A J-10B took off from the same airport where the J-10B in the quoted post landed:
For realistic configurations - 2/2/2 or even 2/2/1 is far more likely.
We're talking about a single-engined fighter here.
Flying bush configurations look cool, but they aren't needed all that often...
In peace time it's always better to preserve the life of the jet with light payload anyway. But in war situation it can be interesting to put a bit more only if the plane is able to use them before lack of fuel or lack of luck.
Additional suspended weapons cut specs, significantly.
The smaller and lighter the plane, the more the effect. Or, reductio ad absurdum, the more you carry, the harder it is to use that you carry. And stay alive.
Most fancy&good looking "truck-like" configurations are rarely usable.
Sometimes it happens(aerial ambushes, certain types of strike missions like famous french missions), but in most cases realistic combat payloads are quite limited.
Have a feeling they're practice bombs - the US have something similar called the BDU-33, which are 25lb inert ordnances that are used to simulate Mk82 bombs and allow pilots to practice dropping unguided bombs. The BDU-33 releases a cloud of smoke on impact instead of making a bang/mess like a live bomb would, and allows pilots to see how accurate they were in their bombing run/pass.
