Dance of Dragon - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

Laser guided, rather than IR/TV

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Ohhhh Belgium F-16AM Block 15 MLU and F-16C Block 50 (USAF) received GBU-31 & GBU-38 JDAM. Finally !

but JAS39 Gripen C from swedish & south african never launch JDAM in service

F-15C Baz (IAF) mounted GBU-31 only. F-16I Sufa mounted both GBU-31(V)2/B & GBU-38(V)1/B

F-15I Ra’am armed GBU-31 & GBU-32 JDAM

Not surpriced A-10C armed GBU-31 & GBU-38.

For F-14B, I want gaijin working Sparrowhawk HUD and replace current HUD

and rename on tech tree & stat card

But F-15C MSIP II not access JDAM in service because F-15E Strike Eagle only drop JDAM in real life

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Just add F-14D at this point

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So they are worse

We asked the game designer to confirm (it’s a double confirm, since he also confirmed the dev blog text that we wrote), and he said it has 10. I also just logged into our server myself and it has 10. So it’s due to have 10 on update release.

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who pissed in your cheerios this morning huh?
People have been asking for them since the A-10C & AV-8B premium gets them. They do have a use in that they should be better for sniping SPAA at standoff ranges, compared to the TV/IR guided ones.
It’s also just an addition. They’re not replacing anything lmao.

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The Snail did

Awesome, thank you for the confirmation!

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On an A-10C? Unlikely. Laser guided means that you will have to continuously expose yourself until it hits.

For the AV-8B(NA) it’s a good new weapon, as it’s 11.3. But for the A-10C it will first have to get within Pantsir range to use the laser guided mav and second it would have to maintain line of sight with said pantsir to kill it. 9 out of 10 times this will likely end in a dead A-10C.

Edit: still a fun new missile, as new weaponry is always good. However this really won’t do anything to help the A-10C.

back when JDAMs were first tried years ago they were only on the F4 EJ Kai so I would assume they could carry them but fair

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so useless then when you have Gs

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🤔🤔

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With a laser you can more precisely target what you want and switch targets (especially handy if the initial target that was launched on died, very common with how slow Mavericks are). In a way maybe better damage, as you can splash the ground near a target instead, so it has less chance of getting eaten by random chance with a direct hit.

Efficiency wise, yeah basically. I would just use the IR guided ones.

Oh god what up ?

Nobody asked here if there’s another blog today!

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Will it be something we haven’t seen yet ?

Is there another Dev Blog today?

Poland jump scare lol

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Gaijin gave them access to those weapons because they can mount them. Technically the only gripen to be given missiles before they announced that rule would be the SAAF gripen since at launch it had AGM 65B despite never having them irl. At this point it doesn’t matter.