Accurate depiction lol
every sentence used here has e or f or t in it so its related to the EFT
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Absolutely true. The problem was just that especially Germany needed something at top tier and Gaijin added the Swiss subtree to late
I’ve stopped bringing 120Charlies on my FGR.4, which is unfortunate but they just… really do not work well at all, even in BVR compared to the 120Bravo I’ve found.
Which is hilarious as the community asked for the swiss subtree way before the EF was introduced. They had the (community approved) solution but blatantly ignored it for whatever reasons…
Same with the F18 in general. Would have been a great addition before the current top dogs and now its dead on arrival thanks to Eurocanards, SU30s and F15s lol
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Well we:
- don’t get the smokeless motor (??? no reason for this one)
- don’t get the improved ECCM (also no reason for this one)
- don’t get the matched performance (same fin aoa smaller fins so it pulls worse when aoa should be more)
- don’t get significantly improved range performance (120b accelerates faster)
No point using them. I stick with Cs because they look cooler.
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Im pretty sure Gaijin wanted to add better Cs at first to strengthen US top tier and then realized that the EF would get it as well so they gimped it
Yeah the priorities/chronology of the jet introductions were/was ass backwards. The F-18 would have been an excellent counterpart for the thurst-vectored jets because of its insane turnrate.
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Looks more like laziness than malice. It’s a C&P 120B with less fin area and a different motor.
Funny bit is they nerfed smokeless motors hard in the most recent update too, and now they look absolutely comically stupid
They’re now REALLY smoky, but the trail just magically disappears a short bit after it
from my own experiences at top tier: it’s partly that, but more that there appears to be a culture (generally not just Soviet teams) of bum rushing spawns. Soviet tank design is fairly uniquely suited to this, so it can feel extremely oppressive, especially if the “attackers” manage to spawn CAS.
However there’s also a trend of 1 death leaving rife in - but not exclusive to - the big three nations. Which if the spawn rush doesn’t work out, leads to the team collapsing, then getting steamrolled by the team that just keeps spawning en-mass.
Just my anecdotal opinion, would be interested to see average spawns per battle which should be a good indicator to my hypothesis.
Shouldn’t 9M be something along the lines of what CAMM is right now, with a thin hard to spot trail? Whereas CAMM should be pre-update 9M being an ASRAAM motor… Feels all backwards.
Thats also a possibility. For me personally it felt more like a balance change gone wrong, because why would Gaijin go throught the effort of adding a new missile if its planned to be copy and paste
AIM-9Li-1 (9M)
AIM-9N (9J)
AIM-9P (9J)
AIM-9G (9D for a while before they fixed it)
AIM-120B (120A)
AIM-7M (7F)
Skyflash (7E2 before they buffed the seeker and proxy)
AIM-54C (54A for a while before they fixed the IOG drift rate)
List goes on. They do it a lot.
Realistically, missile trails should depend on altitude and the maps environment conditions, which ARE modelled, gaijin just doesnt use them for much anymore. Much like how contrails are modelled completely wrong atm as well. Gaijins just lazy.
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Interestingly, of the ASRAAM launches I have seen even at high altitude where the aircraft themselves produce contrails, the missiles barely have one while other weapons put out a noticeable trail.
I still have no clue why. Maybe the tests are just in a weird condition.
This is the thickest I’ve ever seen (surface launch from raven system)
Eurofighter launches always seem to have none.
@Gunjob isnt that the same Series/Doku about the RAF which we saw a year ago in the UK?
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Also, when “Wing Tank Empty” Vws?
When we get any of our own VWS (between tomorrow and the heat death of the universe)
