[Development] Buccaneer S.2B: Swashbuckling Sky Pirate

The specific versions of the F-4 in the US tree never really made complete sense. they should have alternated between the services with;

  • The F-110A / F-4B to serve as the basic A2A capable & dumb ordnance, introductory F-4 variant.

  • The F-4D / early F-4E (Block 45 or earlier) to introduce guided A2G ordnance (LGB / early EO, AGM-62, -65 & GBU-8) and not so great targeting pods (Pave Knife & -Tack).

  • The F-4J to advanced A2A capability (PD radar, among other changes, like the HMD and better missiles) while still providing a reason to fly the USAF F-4s in Ground modes.

  • Then the F-4E(Late) (block 48~62) / -4G to bring things to their best possible state for A2G (AGM-65D, AIM-7F, GBU-15 & Anti-Radiation, etc.).

  • and that still leaves the F-4C & -4S to bring things together as premium / event reward options.

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It gets onboard countermeasures, pretty much very similar to the Sea Harrier.

Well if not it will be reported haha.

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I’m not talking about the Bucc, obviously. I’m talking about the poor flareless subsonics it will get to stomp on along with the A-10 and Su-25.

Womp womp 🤷🏼

On a gunless jet that can’t dogfight… Just jump on them from above or leave them to your jets that have flares.

They make a lot more sense then your suggestion.

I believe BF3 also had that but i could also be confusing it with 2

so like the AJS37 ?

They just fly in a straight line towards the ship from whatever alt you fire them, if you fire at low alt there’s a high chance of them going into terrain, they’re just horribly modeled allround

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Gonna need some skins for this thing.

Is there any possibility we can get the martel missile on any other aircraft capable of carrying it this update?

The AJS is 11.0, this is more likely to be ~10.3, where you also have the A-10s, A-6, and Su-25(K) - adding to the trend of heavy/slow strike aircraft getting all-aspect missiles at a relatively low BR

With the addition of Martel missiles, perhaps Japan could get the Type 80 ASM-1 missile for its F-4EJ Kai and F-1 aircraft? It would greatly improve the ability for Japan to carry out guided air support.

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Finally. been waiting too long for this aircraft!

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Hm, apart from the stand off capability of the artel, I guess the S.2B will be quite similar to the A-6…

T-pod is worse iirc and trades any possibility of guns for a bit more speed alongside also carrying less GBUs

No thermals and no target lock

Will make it quite the interesting T-pod to use to say the least :p

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Reading is hard. It says it will fill gap between Jag and Tornado GR.1 so 10.3 minimum, most likely 10.7.