Though it is splitting hairs before we are even there. Assuming we ever actually get the Typhoon, not too mention a prototype aircraft, I think that prototype should be nearly identical too all 3. With all 3 nations limited, it would be very unfair if one Typhoon was significantly better than the others just because one tested something that the others didnt.
Thats the key thing to remember. It was a collabrative project. Each nation contributed something and tested something different. So it wasnt the “Italian one” that tested the bombs in the early stages. It was an EF Typhoon.
When we enter production models. Then we should start worrying about making them a little more unique. Like with loadout options… But even then, a certain basic loadout options, probably could do with being maintained among all.
Yeah… some uniquness would be nice. Short of the IRST though on the RAF Typhoons, everything else is debatable. Its going to be hard to make them unique.
But I fear that in searching for uniqueness, you end up nerfing 1 or 2 of the Typhoons excessively. Like in the case of the Cluster bombs, without those, could either the German or British Typhoons get anything else?
I dont think so and that would be quite a major nerf to go from something relatively weak, to nothing at all.
Likewise, not all had a cannon, not all had CMs, not all had radar. Where do you draw the lines. The only way, we are going to get a usable prototype is taking parts from all of them I reckon. Or using a later variant that draws upon parts from all.
Without debasing my entire argument, at least it was vaguely competitive for an amount of that. Whereas now we don’t have any really competitive aircraft. Harrier GR.7 is ultimately not the definitive platform and neither is the Tornado F.3. Go 1v1 against anything that’s a realistic top tier and chances are it won’t go well.
I really do believe if we polled it, the majority of British Mains here would prefer to get a DA.2 now-ish and get upgrades to it/newer aircrafts (so an F.2, for example at a later patch, with improved A/A, and then an FGR.4) rather than be forced to wait as everyone else gets their F-15s and Hornets and Su-27s and only then get their Typhoon.
At the moment the meta is very definitely emphasis on decent BVR in the first instance, and then decent close combat. that’s unlikely to change for the foreseeable, yet… we don’t have a platform that has both of those, whereas a good number of people have F-16s or MiG-29s which do?
Perhaps now is the time if anyone has some shareable information on Eurofighter that shows how it’s not as much of a performer as Gaijin thinks they may start to consider adding it within 6 months to a year from now.
Yet it is outperformed by an F-16 that is heavier than any model we have in-game. You see my point? We already have the maneuverable and high sustained turn rate F-16’s. The Eurofighter will fit in quite well, and we must also consider how badly the F-16 is overperforming currently as well… because Gaijin thinks it’s “not a bug”.
Its worth thinking about what other nations are getting within the next 6 months to a year. Im fully expecting 12.7s like the F-15 and soviet equivlanet to arrive this Dec. It is those that Im most concerned about in the short term and those are the ones that are likely going to be what the Typhoon is needed to counter early to mid next year.
Well, I am already discussing why the F-15 will be nothing but a side-grade in performance to the F-14/16 and not really an improvement unless they give it unique armament like AMRAAM… even then F-16C-50 can already get that.
We can talk about that over there.
The Eurofighter doesn’t offer much in terms of performance, it should be added before F-15.
Yep… and yet the general consensus I got from the R&R Thread is that we shouldnt see EFT until the second or third variant of the F-15 was added with a few expecting EFT end of 2024 and F-15s this Dec. Which just seems nuts too me
I really do think it’s the overhype of the community when discussing the Eurofighter as this amazing aircraft that is fully capable of performing in modern day (it isn’t). It arrived too late IRL, it will likely arrive too late in-game too.
