Yoooooo, sick. Also fuck yeah, sea venom Ashw!
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Trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, shame we need to wait for Sea Venom but super happy to see it confirmed.
Now I just want to the ability to use Helis in NE. @F-16D_Barak_II also made a really good suggestion they should add AI Subs to NE as well, for some ASW action in the wildcat
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Shame it’s not coming with brimstones on it too, even sal brimstones would be nice as we have no helicopter that can carry them in game
It is in the BVV’s plans
Maybe, and we have no timeline on when that might happen
Not just AI :3
Remember how in silent thunder, subs had to reach a capture point which would launch ICBMs? Could have something similar (Either regular subs or killstreak subs)
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Yeah, that could be interesting as well. A true, multi-branch gamemode
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Could have destroyers hunting submarines and fighting each other, planes hunting destroyers, helicopters hunting submarines, etc
Yeah, with the right tuning, could even throw players in tanks and maybe even infantry as well
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True but I can’t think of a better fit for Helicopters than Nuclear Thunder. You could finally make use of things like the Longbow radar etc in a meaningful way.
Yeah… Here is hoping, but the Q&A response regarding Heli PvE didnt leave me overally hopeful that helis would get something better than GRB.
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Arty and SAM could also be a thing
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Unfortunately ours don’t have much in the way of independent ASW capability and largely rely or Merlin and ships to find subs for Wildcat to attack.
Might need the potential future Korean one to access dipping sonar
I dont necessarily see the issue in that, if we had some Type 23s in the fleet, that maybe you could even spawn and rearm on, that would assist with that, but could also jsut have the subs not operate that deep, making them visually spottable and attackable, at least initially.
I think the way the RN intends to do it with Wildcat in the long run is using drones to deploy sonobuoys.
They’re already deploying Peregrine (Schiebel Camcopter S-100) for surface detection tasks alongside Wildcat, while simultaneously developing Wildcat’s MUM-T capability for the aircrew to pilot the drones themselves, and evaluating sonobuoys on S-100 and other drones
So if perhaps Gaijin go down the road of adding drone scouting to helis, there may also be an option there.
Yeah, that would be cool. Would also give a reason to ever take the Wildcat over AH-64E in GRB
Well DE&S got back to me;
I can confirm that the Wildcat HMA Mk 2 does have an Electronic Support (ES) capability as part of
its Defensive Aids Suite (DAS).
Under Section 16 of the Act (Advice and Assistance) you may find it helpful to note Electronic
Support Measures (ESM) is now frequently termed simply Electronic Support (ES).
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Not just nuclear escalation but naval EC as well!
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See with ESM, and Spike NLOS’ INS-based fly-to-grid targeting system (basically what we have for GPS-guided weapons), it could have been quite potent for SEAD, even without MITL.
But what I imagine we’re getting for now is just going to be a fatter version of the existing heli Spikes, with potential for longer range assuming there’s line-of-sight for the IIR seeker.