Just to share my excitement about the F-16 change, here are a couple of liveries that I’d love to see added.
I’m also wondering whether Gaijin is going to base the premium on the Dutch “MiG Killer” the only RNLAF aircraft to score an air-to-air kill since World War II. This occurred during the Kosovo War.
But i do wonder what will happen to the existing Belgian camouflages for their originally meant to be premium F-16. Could we expect those skins to be added to the tech-tree F-16 instead, it would be sad to waste those skins the artist already worked on, if those were already finished.
just doesn’t make sense as who will want to squadron grind the same vehicle twice? if anything that would put people off doing that and they may as well make it a gold premium as that’s what people will do, i know i will as im not grinding the same vehicle twice for months at the sold rate of 20krp per 3/4 days
Isn’t it unique? It simply eliminates the need for the missile’s coiling system, as it is no longer necessary
But it has always been clear that the F-14D is nothing revolutionary, it is simply an F-14B with improved electronics, radar and IRST. The big change is if the gaijin adds the ST-21
Did anyone at all test this before pushing it to Dev? The change has done functionally nothing. NATO munitions could already target midfield Crotale. Pact was the one unable to use ARMs on the midfield. This change has not equalised the status quo nor given ARMs more usability. The search radar needs to be active by default, not only when firing.
7-10km is only usable to NATO, but NATO already was able target and destroy it. Except even then we’ll have issues because ALARM won’t be able to engage such a short range threat. Even at the outer most bound of detectability, kh31 cannot hit the target.
Will this be corrected to have the search radar active to begin with? Coupled with the current interception rates, a constant search would not make these targets trivial. Even if not purely for providing adequate targets for the midfield to use ARMs against like the change is claimed to be for, SACLOS missiles guided by Ivan the Unmissing are unreasonable threats to just have only pop up when well within their kill radius with no indication as to the threat’s location prior to avoid pathing badly.
I’ll piggyback off of this, the C+ also has the TWT transmitter from the AMRAAM, so a total seeker head improvement as well. But they give us a copy of the C citing “new cooling” despite it having no effect in-game.
That’s totally fair lol. First preorder I have ever made with War Thunder 😂 I got enough money for the preorder by selling some vehicle coupons on the Marketplace that I wasn’t going to use. So, I was able to sell off enough stuff there to use GJN to preorder the F-14D, rather than direct cash.
