Yeah, I hate the J10 for having max of 2 A2G and 2 ARH for CAS, I am asking for extra glide bombs RN, so I don’t have to sacrifice my double rack for them. The airframe I don’t think is that big, I am more excited about the two massive engines, should allow great supersonic capabilities, also better radar, could spam AMRAAM with it. How many CM does it have? I am still waiting for my Chinese domestic fighters, got a bit over hyped about J11B and J10B. I think Eurofighter might just be one of the new meta CAS, although that said, nothing can stop a Su34 from being the best, especially now that it gets FAB3K UMPK.
Yeah, One thing I hate about the Gripen is how much you have to compromise for anything.
Brakes off to 36k ft and Mach 1.6 in 2.5 minutes :P
Can easily super-cruise
Its gunna be awesome fun, but really need bigger maps
Was Blue Vixen placeholder on the Dev server, so really excited to see what they do to it. Was confirmed they were doing work to it. Should be the best mechanical radar in game. Period.
64 Large Calibre CMs + 320 BOL (which werent modeled as BOL so actually work and dont have the BOL nerfs)
The lack of FnF AGMs will hurt, but not really much else can climb as hard as the Typhoon and it has the best tpod in game. I also really hope they replace the ahistorical Brimstone 1s with Brimstone 2s that have 200% increased range. Would be awesome, even with SAL only.
Also the RWR can detect K-Band, which will be huge when dealing with Pantsirs.
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Yeah, as of now, JF17 is the only non Russian thing that can see K-band lock, thanks to the fact that it has same RWR as the tiger helis. But that thing has to sacrifice a lot for CAS as well, pretty much only Soviet CAS can counter soviet SPAA RN. I am wondering if we can get it fixed, could HQ17 change the meta even slightly, we are trying to get it to 1000+ meter velocity RN.
Gripen I think can as well. i dont recall if its gotten K-Band or if the report has just been accepted though
But yeah, Pantsir is insane.
I dont think the meta is gunna change much till we see the new SPAA added to all nations. Though I think we can assume Soviets will be one the first.
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No, they do not. But nonetheless, you’re still forced to use at top tier through lack of alternative.
As excited as I am to get my hands on and play my RAF Typhoon in air battles, three aircraft being added with 18 Brimstones a piece is just another game ruining horror for ground to endure.
I just hope these new SAM’s that were promised come ASAP in 2025. Between now and March is going to feel like an eternity of misery for top tier tank enthusiasts.
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Good, jets at top tier don’t need to get another advantage on SPAA that is already over tiered and underpowered compared to the jets it’s supposed to face.
Also, enlighten me a bit here, why would EO tracking ping a laser warning? Wouldn’t that be beam riding stuff? As someone who uses EO/IR camera for years to track and find targets, I don’t see how EO would ping a laser warning system. It doesn’t use a laser, we have lasers to sparkle and designate on these payloads normally, but that’s not part of it, and they specifically are rated for things like class and range. They also have to be turned on, they aren’t just always lasing. So I don’t see how that sensor would ping a laser warning system if it’s using EO tracking.
Gimme a lesson.
I’m by no means an expert, but my understanding is that typically such a system uses a sight (usually thermals because it’s easier to pick out targets than with a visible-wavelength system, or a combination of various spectrums for more detail or countermeasure resistance) to track and determine the position of the target. But that only gives a 2-dimensional picture of the target, essentially what direction it is in. In order to calculate lead you also need to know how far away it is. So on most systems a laser rangefinder is used, pulsing periodically to update range information. There are other options like radar but those seem to be less common on ordinary FCS because that requires an entire new system instead of just using the vehicle’s already present sights and LRF. In fact something interesting is that this system actually is also used against tanks and not just aircraft, it’s known as a “hunter killer” system and is common on modern MBTs, IFVs, and other AFVs (like 90s onwards), using the same combination of thermals, LRF, and computer systems to automatically track and lead a ground target, some modern vehicles like the K2 will even automatically aim and fire the cannon.
So the system periodically rangefinds the target with a laser which should trip the LWR, a major reason why LWS are used in the first place. But again I’m not an expert so maybe my understanding is just flat wrong.
I figured that’s where this was going: how we achieve our slant range. I just wasn’t sure that was it. Got it, thanks. Makes sense.
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Romanian F-16AM can be more advanced TT variant, one equipped with AIM-9X and AIM-120C-7/8.
Although they can introduce “early” with AIM-9M and AIM-120B as premium and “late” as regular.
Imo Sniper can be an interesting premium.
It can also be F-16B from Italy or just some F-2000A variant.
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why does the german eurofighter doesn´t have the PIRATE IRST?
Because the Luftwaffe didn’t mount it.
yes they didn´t used the PIRATE IRST but instead the FLIR. Which is like a basic version of the PIRATE IRST
As @Morvran says the most suitable option if the spanish av-8b plus, a copy of the TT one but with spanish camos.
Italy doesn’t have a Spanish sub-tree
could still be a cool premium, another premium i can think of it’s the greek F4E, just to make sure every nation gets its F4 lol
A nation doesn’t have to be a su tree to have additions to trees though! Look at VRCC… that being said, it was removed, so it would indeed be inconsistent.
No, but Italy has sub-trees that are more likely to be drawn on, see the Hungarian Pzh 2000 for example. Or the recent Romanian event plane.
I know, but as of now the most probable TT we’ll see spanish vehicles in is the italian one (VRCC, AV8B and EF)
VRCC is a variant of Centauro. That’s why it’s in the Italian TT.
They often remove premiums, especially Italian, since they don’t sell well, but they usually come as GE or become temporarily available during some nation-related events, probably it’s more profitable for Gaijin to do it this way.
PS still sad that F-104S TAF was removed and people who would like to quickly grind to Italian Eurofighter don’t have a better option apart from AMX A-1, which is kinda bad in air RB, due to its high br. TAF is at least a pretty useful base-bomber)
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Yes, Italy isn’t the “everything else” tree and there’s better options from the actual subtrees it has, Hungary and Romania, such as MiG-23s or MiG-29s, or best a LanceR.