Pylon weight & drag

How are weight and drag of pylons/racks calculated now (if at all)?

E.g. Is pylon weight and drag added to the basic "empty" model of the aircraft?

hard to say considering it is hella broken right now.

hard to say considering it is hella broken right now.

Yeah but is it broken (i.e. it's bugged and causes issues), or not implemented / simplified?

If not implemented, then it means they either add this weight and drag to the airframe, or that we have all aircraft with less weight and drag than they would have with a weapon loadout.

IMO either solution would be sub-par for a sim that's all about accurate FMs, but at least we know how it's calculated for now..

P.S. I posted in the main forum, the fact it's been quickly moved to the bugs section probably means it's a bug

It is implemented just that, for example, on the F14 putting on the two wing station Phoenixs actually adds negative drag somehow meaning an F14 with two wing phoenixs is faster than a clean F14.

It is implemented just that, for example, on the F14 putting on the two wing station Phoenixs actually adds negative drag somehow meaning an F14 with two wing phoenixs is faster than a clean F14.

Yeah but I'm not talking about stores drag, but pylon drag.

On the F-18 for example, you can remove the pylons to have clean wings (like the Blue Angels), but having them on or not doesn't currently make a difference in weight or drag.

Different weapons are carried on pylons that are sometimes quite draggy, so jettisoning the whole rack as opposed to jettisoning just the weapons should result in a lighter and slicker airplane.

Conversely, some pylons like the ones used by the F-14 in the tunnel, can actually reduce drag (e.g. 2 AIM-54 mounted on the wings have a higher drag than if they were mounted in the tunnel).

So pylon drag/weight is kind of important, hence the thread and my initial question.