couldve been interesting for air modes if a bit lower BR
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Wait so will this be the new US nuclear bomber in place of the Canberra or not?
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great addition, but enjoy getting zoomclimbed by mach 2 capable aircrafts and missiles…
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Nothing about the rear facing radar?
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the 20mm cannons will need to bypass the enemy missiles
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It is temporarily disabled or not modeled at this moment. I hope the B-66B will receive its fully functional MD-1A system for the gunner before the patch goes live, or at least within the same update cycle.
This was the latest update I got on my bug reports for the MD-1A system:
I’m a bit disappointed, since the radar-guided turret on the B-66B is one big thing I was really looking forward to seeing fully modeled. It would be extremely useful for self-defense at 9.0, especially without an airspawn at the start of a match due to its Rank VI placement.
Please give these bug reports some attention:
It would be very useful if the B-66B could get its chaff dispenser pods on the external hardpoints.
This bug report hasn’t received any update lately:
[DEV] B-66B’s X-Ray Missing One Crewman
I’ll be working on new bug reports to cover adding CCRP functionality and RWR to the B-66B.
If you want to support in making bug reports for the B-66B, I have opened a thread for this bomber:
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This thing’s enjoyment factor is so wildly dependent on its BR placement. 9.0 and its pointless.
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Too bad it’s at a BR that makes it useless, and a rank that also makes it useless.
Please move it down to rank V, and 8.7 so it gets an airspawn and an acceptable BR.
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The fact that bombers don’t get airspawns at 9.0+ is dumb, seriously dumb. It makes flying planes like the Buccaneers a pain because I have to compete with Mig-23s to get to bases and that’s even more of a pain because matches never last long enough for me to just circle around and wait for a base to respawn.
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No countermeasures, no airspawn, no offensive or foward facing weapons, and its at a BR where it will see radar missles regularly if it tries climbing.
Unles its lowered to 8.0 or 8.3 and gets an air spawn, it’ll be DOA. Even the vaultours are better than this thing!
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It shouldn’t have the same or even a lower BR as the B-57s/Canberras. The B-66 is better in most aspects.
They really saw this thing and said “1950s subsonic jet bomber with no CMs and a single turret for defense, perfect! Send it against supersonic aircraft with guided missiles”
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Where V-Bombers?
Where Mirage IV?
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Thats funny. Because on the dev stream they specifically mentioned it
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8.7 is as low as it can go with the current compression
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It’s Gaijins silly decision to just disable airspawns for all planes above rank 5. They didn’t even take a second to think about how this would affect individual aircraft and instead just said “send it”
Now we have stuff like the US F-84F being the only F-84F to get an airspawn or the interceptor Vautour getting an airspawn while none of the bomber Vautours get airspawns
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When B1 lancer
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Its better in speed and has a tail gun. The tonnage isn’t going to make much of a difference between the two and it has no frontal armament. It should be at the same BR and tier as the B-57 with the forward guns.
Both the B-57B and Canberra B(I) Mk 6 (the ones with guns) are the same BR as the B-57A and Canberra B Mk 2 (the ones without guns).
The higher speed, the tail turret and the tonnage combined definitely deserve a higher BR than the B-57/Canberra.
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I love that the cockpit is coming with it.
It’ll be great in both sim and air RB.
It’ll be hard but interesting in ground RB.
America getting its better Vautour finally.