Talk:Stand-Off Dispenser/@comment-50.152.210.97-20140908133207/@comment-86.46.33.48-20150920162225

In real life certain, generally very specialised aircraft are sent out on missions with literally only one or two weapons on their hardpoint, even if they can carry more.

But the biggest example i can think of is an aircraft which literally only had two hardpoints, was the F-117 Nighthawk.

Unlike the one in these games, which can fire air to air missiles, the real F-117 can only carry two bombs at a time, generally either two 2000 lb laser bombs or JDAM bombs or as little as two 500 lb bombs and Wikipedia isn't clear about whether any F-117s were ever sent on mission carrying them, but they also had the capabliity at least, to carry two B61 Nuclear bombs.

Something else i thought of is aircraft which could normally carry large amounts of ordnance, but were modified for special missions, such as the infamous missions to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, which sent B 29 bombers, which would normally carry multiple bomb up to a weight of 20,000 lb, to drop a single atomic bomb on their targets :_.

Still to wrap, i can definitely see even regular fighter aircraft with have typically 6-12 hardpoints to fire a single weapon at a target - sure fighter aircraft are sent on missions to only take pictures (to do reconanace), so is sending an aircraft on a mission to fire two missiles any more of a waste of fuel and man hours? :).