F-16 Conformal fuel tank

[dresoccer4]

Hey there! Does anyone know if there exists a mod to add the cool looking Conformal fuel tanks on the F-16? Thanks!

[razo+r]

Yes there is. It should be downloadable somewhere here or on the userfiles.

Edited November 29, 2021 by razo+r

[dresoccer4]

Found it: CFT_Mod_2.0.1 (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

However unfortunetly it looks like it's purely aesthetical as you can't access the under-wing hard points if using the conformal tanks, thus sort of defeating the purpose of having them. Still look cool though!

[Nightstorm]

Interesting that this question just came up as well in the discord.  The answer to the question can we use weapons on 4/6 AND have fuel in the CFT's:

 

Not without SDK.  Viper is limited to only adding fuel to stations 4,5,6 and max fuel is limited to ~17k lbs.  So the only solution was to add "empty" CFT's and then add "fuel" to them using stations 4 and 6.  That's why there are a couple of model options, CFT's only or CFT's with tanks.  But in truth, fuel is only ever added on 4 and 6 regardless of what's shown as a model.  That makes it impossible to have fuel and ALSO have weapons.  You can add empty CFT's to the jet and have weapons on 4/6 but you won't have any extra fuel.  And the converse is true, you could "cheat" and add fuel via CFT's without actually having them displayed on the model as the fuel component of the CFT's doesn't have an actual model associated with it.
[9:29 AM]
And, station 5 is limited to 300 gal of fuel, so it can't be used to hold all of it.
[9:30 AM]
If anyone ever comes up with a better idea, please let me know.

[dresoccer4]

30 minutes ago, Nightstorm said:

Interesting that this question just came up as well in the discord.  The answer to the question can we use weapons on 4/6 AND have fuel in the CFT's:

 

Not without SDK.  Viper is limited to only adding fuel to stations 4,5,6 and max fuel is limited to ~17k lbs.  So the only solution was to add "empty" CFT's and then add "fuel" to them using stations 4 and 6.  That's why there are a couple of model options, CFT's only or CFT's with tanks.  But in truth, fuel is only ever added on 4 and 6 regardless of what's shown as a model.  That makes it impossible to have fuel and ALSO have weapons.  You can add empty CFT's to the jet and have weapons on 4/6 but you won't have any extra fuel.  And the converse is true, you could "cheat" and add fuel via CFT's without actually having them displayed on the model as the fuel component of the CFT's doesn't have an actual model associated with it.
[9:29 AM]
And, station 5 is limited to 300 gal of fuel, so it can't be used to hold all of it.
[9:30 AM]
If anyone ever comes up with a better idea, please let me know.

 

interesting! yeah this describes basically what I just found out through trail and error. Here's hoping someone will come up with a solution