F/A-18C late should get AGM-84 Harpoon and AGM- 84E SLAM. Harpoon will be good additon for sim players and SLAM would give hornet more edge to its air to ground capabilities and it would make it more fair since Russia got Kh-38 which is straight copy of AGM-84E
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Russians copied SLAM but they replaced turbo jet engine with 2 stage rocket engine which made it fly faster but cut chunk of range available for SLAM, Both missiles have similar dimensions and construction. While in game Kh-38 has 40km range, Russian claim that it can reach further. Basic SLAM has 100km range while dropped from high speed and altitude, but still it is very slow cruise missile. SLAM-ER in game would be over kill. In Fact Russian did some thing similar to SLAM-ER with Kh-38 which resulted with Grom 1 and 2
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Russia builds something slightly similar to the US and you get “Such a clear copy of X”
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If u look at history of many russian weapons u will find that russia often uses reverse engineering to copy western designs. Look at Tu-4 , R-3, Strela-2 etc.
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similar precision guided munitions arent always copies, this isn’t like with russian AAMs which evolved from a captured sidewinder
I do think other nations should have on par munitions however.
AGM 84 for the USA
functional brimstone for britian (and for some reason germany)
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TU-4 was taken because they didn’t have a long range bomber, and has a longer history than that.
The R-3 is a AIM-9B copy, stolen from a German airbase.
The Strela-II looks similar to a FIM-43 redeye but is quiet different in practice.
more of a GBU-53/JAGM-F equivalent than AGM-84E. different class of missile
kinda all we have tbh. Britain is holding on by a fraying shoestring at the moment
Spear 3? brimstone 2 & 3? storm shadows? ALARM? HARM (u guys use it right?) AGM-114L? JAGM?
come on, you guys have a fair bit of a2g stuff left
Can’t forget the AGM-123 Skipper II as an option.
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spear 3 probably wont be ready for a decade. storm shadows range is too big for war thunder. ALARM would be cool but its not gonna compete with KH38. Hellfire is just kinda everywhere and nowhere in WT. JAGM isn’t in service yet (publicly).
A lot of it is either unsuitable for the game. got to remember britain is kept behind in one way or another no matter what too so we cant expect it
damn shame. Marine Corps over here has JAGM operational, but i guess you guys are only just getting the missiles or they havent even arrived yet.
do you know if UK ever used GBU-53?
no but australia uses it
not UK. i guess UK will have later brimstones reasonably, which arent half bad from what ive heard tbh
If you look at the Tornado IDF MFG has the anti ship missile and its horrible to use. Because of how the missile aims for center of the hit box it misses it target a lot of time. They have updated it but its still not great. They are working on anti radiation missiles but no timeline on to when we will get them. Plus even if we get the harpoon, what ship you going to shoot at? Unless you play SIM then the answer is none.
good thing there is land attack version, SLAM, with maverick seeker
yea i guess, and the maverick is relatively slow compared to the counterparts. The thing is there are a lot of people that are tired of high rank cas due to it being overwhelming. Guess just i’ll just sit back and watch
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its a little more than overwhelming. Its unviable to play against Russia as you will eat a KH38
with missile intercept rewards being announced as in the works, i hope stuff like C-RAM truck will be viable, as well as skyrangers and SHORAD