A single question, why doesnt the CF-188A have a carrier spawn? a carrier spawn would give this aircraft a advantage over the ARH slingers it constantly goes against, and for some reason is the only F18 that doesnt get a carreir spawn. Now i would understand this decision by gajin if it was intentional (since Canada doesnt have any aircraft carriers) exept there is one small problem, the F/A-18C Late for SWITZERLAND gets a CARRIER SPAWN. Is this a known bug by gajin or just some unbalanced intentional addition? what do you think?
I haven’t checked but maybe the CF-188A lost some of the naval equipment (to be lighter or cheaper) which would explain why.
That’s probably the direction you should look toward if you want an answer
Quite possibly, the Aussie Hornets had the gear to attach them to the catapult systems removed, the arrester hook replaced with a lighter version and the carrier landing system removed.
The real question is if the Aussie Hornets can use the carrier in game.
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How so? All it gives you is spawn closer but with less altitude and slower since you are landed, how is that an advantage?
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This is Canadian…
Yes, I am merely pointing out that at least some nations that do not use carriers removed the carrier capability for their Hornets. Additionally 25 of Canadas hornet ARE ex-Australian ones, so unless the decided to reinstall carrier gear for carriers the don’t have at least some of Canadas Hornets lack carrier gear.
https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2017-12-13/sale-australian-classic-hornets-canada
https://australianaviation.com.au/2019/01/raaf-hornet-sale-to-canada-finalised-report/
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Odd, the CF-188 should be, as it kept the naval gear. As iirc it used with the shorter artic runways. For it to have been without naval gear, Canada would have needed to buy the land horent that was never made.
As for the Aussie Hornets Canada bought, they shouldn’t have any effect as they only apply to later ones that are HEP standard, and well, we have an 80s-90s one for the CF-188.
By the way CF-188A HEP II when
Because Canada doesn’t have any aircraft carriers. Therefore no carrier takeoff/landing.
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That’s not the reason, the Swiss Hornets still have that ability in the game apparently
I looked a little into it since I recently got the syrup slinger to play hornets with my buddy and was surprised when I couldn’t join him for a CATOBAR launch on the Denmark map.
Turns out that since Canada doesn’t operate carriers so the Royal Canadian Air Force decided quite understandably that the launch bar was pretty much a useless slab of metal slightly weighing the aircraft down, so they got some of the lads to remove them(apparently rather janked like) but found that the removal of a big piece of metal from the landing gear caused the gear to become unstable and violently shook on both takeoff and landing at speeds below takeoff speed. This was deemed extremely dangerous for obvious reasons and they had to spend a bunch of money fitting the aircraft with “dummies” that were exactly the same weight as the launch bar. The carrier landing system removed but the arrestors were apparently unchanged so landing should still be possible through raw dogging it.
The later CF-188s actually had a dummy that didn’t feature the needed hydraulics or probably even an ability to move to actually attach to the catapult. Though it seems gaijin hasn’t model this because they’re lazy or something so the CF-188A shares the front landing gear model with the F/A-18C, even the carrier landing system lights. Though this could be because they based the model off of the first delivery pictures of the CF-188 with the original landing gear.
In game CF-188 front landing gear vs in game F/A-18C front landing gear + image of CF-188 with identical front landing gear.
In game the early Aussie F-18A has a similar dummy to those on the Spanish aircraft like they both do in real life. The late one though has a more interesting mock up that actually looks similar to the actual bar, presumeably to maintain the designed aerodynamics of the front landing gear arrangement.
In conclusion: The CF-188 should not be able to take off from CATOBAR carriers because the launch bar is a non functioning dummy.
Australian F-18A dummy in game, in real life and Spanish dummy in real life(note the extra landing light on the Australian Hornet).
Late Australian F/A-18A dummy and real life dummy.
Still, it has enough lift and power to take off from the Kuznetzov even if it isn’t supposed to do so. If I were you I’d ask Gaijin if you could take off from Kuznetzov or just beg for them to overlook this and just make it CATOBAR capable because who the fuck honestly cares about that degree of realism in this game? Considering they gave the Swiss Hornet access to the completely fictional loadouts it gets this would be a relatively minor and nice change.