Why not add AWACS aircraft? It looks pretty good. It would introduce new gameplay and wouldn’t deviate too much from the game’s concept.
(Air Command Post): Guiding allied fighters and attack aircraft to priority targets, as well as providing target designation to anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM).
Long-range reconnaissance: Continuous monitoring of air, land and sea space in 360-degree mode.
Another plus is that they can be added to all nations in the game.(USA, France, Sweden, Italy, Israel, China, Russia, Britain, Japan. I’m not sure about Germany).
All that remains is to expand the maps in the ARB, and even then it won’t be noticeable, because the top fighters will already be fast and the current maps are already too small for them, and the new ones will give new opportunities.
They need to add the chinese tu4 with the awacs radar as the dreams come true vehicle or for the april fools reward. Mostly because I’d assume it still has cannons and bombs? Not for sure
Give it the ability to scout people on its in air realistic, as in relaying exact or close to exact positions of enemy teammates. Would be a fun gimmick to help your team constantly be aware of everyone near the plane
I dont see them being of any meaningful value as playable vehicles, but they would make an interesting new objective to ASB if nothing else. High flying, well within their own side of the map, they could be an interesting change to the current status quo. Though whether they should reveal players on the map is something that needs to be discussed seperately and I think should be directly tied to map size rather than simply their pressence.
If we are going to do this, lets add refueling tankers. We can have extra large maps, some people can fly AWACS, some can fly tankers, some can fly electronic warfare aircraft, attack/fighter aircraft, and some bombers… let’s make it realistic.
It certainly didnt have spare room to accomodate the neccesary electronics to operate relatively ancient radar + operators WHILE keeping the bombload AND gunners.
However operational Tu-4’s with the PLAAF were refitted with the AI-20K turboprop engines seen in the photo - so that is a possible heavy bomber addition for the Chinese!
Its still basically flying around in circles largely AFK for ages doing nothing of note. Especially in ARB where we already get better support than any AWAC could from the game itself, like markers.
As the intelligence part really isn’t crazy useful in air at least for the tu4 derivative it’d probably need ahistoric bomb bay, but maybe some other unique feature? Idk just seems like a funny quirk vehicle to have in the game at least one. Could just folder it too under the actual turboprop bomber someone above mentioned so it’s entirely optional
Also making it an ai each team has one or multiple have could help, if they ever decide to actually improve air realistic, or add to nuclear thunder
The AI that fly low and terrain follow crash all the time, but the aircraft that fly above the terrain at fixed altitudes like the recon planes work just fine.
Orbiting at 30-40k ft, it would be impossible for even Gaijin to mess up
