yes thats what i said, I suspect by mcdonnell themselves as a mockup image for the proposal for F-15 STOL MTD, sorry if that was unclear
just kinda got myself caught diving for info about 71-290 cause theres a lot of misinformation about it tbh (mostly the extent of the active program is getting stretched into what had already been done to that airframe by the F15 STOL MTD program)
Gotcha, I just felt like adding a pic of 71-291 would be good to nail the point down.
There being a lot of misinformation about it online probably is a result of the 290 airframe being modified multiple times for different purposes.
It doesn’t help that it seems to get mixed up with the 291 and that info about 290s time before NASA seems to be hard to find.
yes exactly
cant say for the reliability of it but this website
gives a good timeline of many of the f-15 airframes
the edited image supposedly was from 1984 which is during the period when the 71-291 airframe was still being used as a integration testbed for the enhanced tactical fighter programme (the F-15E)
Hydroplanes should also get the ability to lay smokescreens no matter what mode they’re in. The Ar196 for example does it in naval but not ground or air.
Would be cool, but I don’t think that it would be a good idea to have that ability in ground battles
Being able to lay a wall of smoke around the enemy spawn to trap them might be a bit OP lol
I disagree with that. If you smoke up the entire enemy spawn then your teammates don’t get anything out of it either. Not OP, just creates a temporary problem with both team’s mobility
From a “people only care about kills” perspective, yes, this would be kind of useless.
If used strategically this would absolutely be OP tho.
The griefing potential is also massive, but people already have plenty of vehicles to spam smokes in an attempt to grief anyways, so this wouldn’t be a real problem.
“If used strategically” means diddly-squat in WT rn. A BTR-ZD and an IS-2 could run an entire lobby if used strategically yet that doesn’t happen often. Same thing with smoke-laying planes.
Well DCT may be shortened if they’ll give lowrank machine, for example to 5 or 6 medals. AND they can run it parallel with different event, that happened once already
Valid point
Gaijin still seems to care about that aspect though, well, at least some decisions make me think they do care lol
Wiesel sitting at 7.3 because of thermals and LRF
They removed the ability to launch Spikes at UAVs and no MITL for ground launched Spikes (yet lol)
They love blocking off hard to reach spots that give too much of an advantage when utilized by players
Ground vehicles can’t exceed their listed top speed when towed
Please continue the discussion in official thread linked above :)
PS. Gratz for few of you, who pointed on Mistel :)
