It’s actually more like KH59. The KD88 is developed from the YJ83 anti-ship missile, which has replaced the TV/IR guidance head and has a “human in the loop” function. It uses a more durable jet engine instead of a rocket, with a range of over 200km, a cruising speed of 0.9 Mach, and the ability to dive and sprint to 1.3 Mach in the last 30km. It needs to be used with a data link pod, located symmetrically on the infrared optical pod of JH7A/J10A. For the flanker, a separate hanging point needs to be occupied
Not saying the GR.4 is bad, but pretty copy paste really. And I don’t even play naval, but I know Britain is known for ships and naval just gets shit on most updates
Not fixing bug reports is par of the course for minor nations. It really sucks, especially when they should be easy bug fixes to address without major implication for balance. I’ve got a year old bug report for the Hunter FGA9 having the wrong flag in the hanger :D
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Germany don’t get anything new either and force to stuck with Phantoms (again lol)
Germany got Tornado modification
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For me in Sim in the GR4:
- FLIR is going to be lovely for CCRP and target ID. A bit of manual IRST.
- Litening III will actually be usable to VID due to Gen 3 and good zoom
- ePaveways should be really fun and interesting
- MAWS is going to be a big boost for survivability
- HMS wont be a huge amount of value for A2A combat but has some nice symbology for CCRP
- MK103 engines meaning we arent gimped like mad
- Aim-9Ms are always nice to have.
Just a shame the Brimstones wont really have much use outside of a meme weapon, but oh well. Just the 12.3 BR (which translate to 12.7 in Sim) is gunna be a tad rough
and yeah. When the Royal Navy has less Rank VI ships than the Soviets… you know you are getting screwed
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And Chinese players just want to have their own exclusive air to surface missile. You will find that only Italy and Israel do not have exclusive air to surface missiles in all the technology trees, while China only has one plane with poor guided rockets. As a country with aviation industry strength no less than other countries, Chinese players hope that you have your own universal air to surface missile like AGM&KH series
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ICE dropping to 13.0 is a massive buff for it and makes it one of the best 13.0s in game
Lol, GR.4 gets HMS, why doesn’t the F.3 get it? I don’t have the GR.1 so mind any mistake but thats just dumb.
Which is precisely what the Tornado F3 pilots (IRL) thought, especially when they got ASRAAM.
Gotta love the MoD
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Guys, in my impression, it seems that the German Tornato has also tested the Brimstone, is it the one in the game? Also, it seems that the British Harrier fighter has also carried it, I don’t know if it’s the GR7 in the game
Only the Tornado ASSTA3.1 trialed/equipped them I think. But it was the Brimstone 3 missile. In game we are getting the Brimstone 1 (Though with SAL only, wish they upgraded that to the Brimstone 2, would just increase the range/speed a bit)
Harrier Gr7 couldnt carry Brimstone. But the Harrier GR9A that has yet to be added could carry them, but only the Original Brimstone 1s, not the Dual-mode version that the GR4 is getting. So it could only be used in the mmV mode. So either they’ll add the ahistorical version of the Brimstone for it if/when its added or more likely, it wont get them at all. Which would be a real shame.
As for KD-88…
200km range TV or IR guided missile is a tad too OP at the moment. I know KH-38s are insane, but they dont have that kind of range. I could only see them coming maybe in a Anti-ship variant which couldnt be used vs tanks.
Only seems to be the JH-7A that could receive them currently
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Thank you for your answer. I really hope that Gaijin can be as tolerant as Sweden’s AGM65G when choosing missiles that can be used for other aircraft, instead of having to actually mount and use them
Withwise to the SAAF Gripen… Its mostly placeholder weapons, iirc the only weapon its really ever equipped with at the moment I think is the IRIS-T (obviously too OP at the moment), a few unguided bombs and maybe paveways.
Would have really sucked to have it massively handicapped compared to other Gripen Cs in game.
In fact, for the anti-ship version of KD88, namely YJ83/CM802, it has been described that GPS can be used as a cruise missile to attack ground targets, just like Grom. But I don’t know if it’s possible to use its IR guidance head to attack ground moving targets
Yeah… Cruise missiles (or missiles that can be used like them) are gunna be tricky. Grom 1 is a fairly weak one and already caused chaos to the point it was removed.
Storm Shadow for example I think has an IIR seeker for the terminal phase, so might be able to at least hit a target within a certain radius of its impact point if not necessarily a moving target. Combine with their massive range… could be… OP
Im all for native options being added. God knows Id kill for a dozen native British misisles to be added like ALARM or things like SRAAMs to be fixed. But also needs to be balanced.
Game balance… Yeah, the ground power of Britain in the game is a bit too weak, and it does require a stronger CAS as a balance. But ironically, non preferred tech tree players like the UK, Israel, and China usually have a considerable amount of experience playing other countries’ tech trees, while the proportion of novice players in the US and Soviet Union is significantly higher. If the equipment strength of both sides is exactly the same, it is inevitable that the side with more novices will have a worse win rate, just like the current US
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JF17 seems to be able to carry the foreign trade version TL7 of KD88, but I don’t know if Pakistan has purchased it. In fact, China’s modern fighter jets have learned from the US 1553B system, just like the US. Theoretically, modern ammunition can be carried as long as the space and load capacity are sufficient. You can even see the cutting-edge PL10 on the earliest J10A
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Yeah, its funny how “good” Britain is doing with mediocre tanks at the moment with massive bugs they just wont address (like the missing 20 round ready rack, currently its only 4)
But yeah, A really strong CAS would have given us a reason to play top tier GRB, im just gunna stick to 10.7 again.
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