Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24440536-20150404223955/@comment-25045164-20150406050126

What simply categorizes the fighters into where they belong is their SPWs, with priorities given to the ones that can lock on like 4AAM and 4AGM, and the bomb-types. ADMM is a dead giveaway as it can target both air and ground units. That makes CFA-44 a multirole. Typhoon only has air-to-air SPWs. So, it is a Fighter type. FB-22 only has air-to-ground SPWs and that makes it an Attacker type. Su-47 has a bomb-type SPW along with air-to-air SPW and that makes it a Multirole type.

Another case with Morgan and FALKEN. Morgan is a Multirole for its ECMP (ECMP and ESM also makes a fighter a Multirole type) and MPBM which can lock on to air and ground targets, whereas FALKEN is a Fighter for its air-to-air SPW. TLS doesn't decide a category because it can't lock on. Same thing like you would fire 6AAM onto a cruiser like bombs or drop a UGB onto one of those air dummies in Test Flight. You can't lock on but as long as they hit something, they damage what they hit.