It was a strange option to add tbh,
but i think it was to give someone else than the US or Russia the top dog for a bit.
Since the smaller nations are pretty much never “meta”
I support adding more advanced aircraft to smaller nations to vary the player base from just the 2 largest nations
(If they have indigenous aircraft to add…)
US has not been sole top dog since F-14A on release
Well yeah it’s still usually been one of the best since e most nations got the same stuff when the F-16/F15 etc was added
You can see current Rafale F4.1s and their pilots equipping the helmets.
nice, but these were delivered in 2023 so its after the HMD were bought, not before
the rafale is present in no other trees, so its the sole top dog. basically everyone got an F-16 or F-15, Rafale is one of the few jets lucky enough to not be copy pasted into different trees. Im glad its not copy pasted, but idk something like an advanceed eagle would be nice to be more level with an F3R Rafale
And by it being the best atm, attracts more players to said tech tree and benefits Gaijin
From what i remember, for the HMD part yeah, you are right, for the 8 missiles, it still was fully integrated, that is why at the start people were arguing that it could be 8 by showing picture of f3r with the thing in the cockpit where you could see the missiles and saw that even if it was carrying 6 there were some sort of indicators suggesting 8 should be possible and also the fact that DGA and Dassault had a stand with a f3r with 8 missiles but it’s true that it did not carry in service more than 6.
how does it benefit Gaijin more than adding something that would be the best to another tree though? does that mean US should get F-22 this summer, because it would attract more players and benefits Gaijin?
still think india should receive theirs in game
Every single Rafale had been “tested” from the very beginning starting with Rafale F1, so all of them would qualify for having HMD.
what HMD would the F1 get?
well they added the F/A-18C Late pretty recently. maybe if they add another premium at the same time, the increased sales of both would probably make more than the Rafale has made for Gaijin
TopSight helmet
U.S. and France Working on Rafale’s Certification to Refuel F/A-18
Rafale M with carrier spawn and a redesigned game mode where those features could be useful would be nice.
i wouldnt trust a war thunder player to refuel me dude. 100% they just crash into me. Hell people crash into me when im climbing and minding my business already.
Yeah that is what i thought xd, it would have to be an automatic feature because people would crash whole time or end up breaking the thing to refuel other plane.
Interestingly the same people constantly talking about Rafale having 8 missiles loadout which was tested and also done on Indian Rafales, as well as Rafale F3 having HMDs are inconspicuously missing when it comes to Eurofighter threads for the dual AIM-9 pylons which supposedly only Spain uses in service as well as being M.I.A in Gripen/M2K/ threads when it comes to HMD being tested.
