Gaijin probably realized that planes like the AESAphoon and Gripen E would get infinitely more value out of the AIM-120D than the 18E&F/15C GE/PoBIT.
Kind of defeating the initial point.
Because its one of the three big nations in WT, I always find the italian typhoons performing the best in my games, then uk then germany. I’m glad I don’t get stuck with other german typhoons on my team for air, imagine if air was played like ground.
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Yeah… That wouldnt be fun
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Yeah USA needed the Aim120D more than us, especially for the f16 pobit. I wonder if Aim120D and PL12A will force some kind of evolution so more players learn to notch. Longer matches with everyone not dying in the first 3 minutes. But then again matches are move fun with 1v1 or 2v2 at the end so maybe its not such a good thing. hm
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I would hope so, but I don’t want to overestimate the average WT random player too much.
yeah the late game 1v1 etc have been some of the most fun I had when I was playing my J-10C, at least until you have to fight a Rafale up close.
I got curious and tried to check my server replay, but because of a bug the radar scope was positioned outside the screen area, so I couldn’t understand the situation at all. This is ridiculous.
—TWS—
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My go to solution to rafales
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First, shoot down all of the Rafale’s MICAs with AMRAAMs. After that, we still have our 9Ms left—then we just play with him.
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Wait until you realize Rafale pilots actually carries Magic-2’s for CQC.
Isn’t MICA the better choice there too? in CQC you’re not notching, and TVC will let it pull in hard
Opponent can easily multipath your MICA’s and force you to knife fight or keep abusing multipath.
Thats where Magic-2 shines which is why i carry 2 of them all the time.
D-AMRAAM moment. D definitely has something up its sleeve.
I can’t wait to try using the Eurofighter.
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Euro doesn’t get 120D
Just managed to get a hilarious long range kill. 1v2. both of them are heading back to AF and im Bingo. so I just yeet 2 of my remaining C5s towards them at a range of 60km and turn cold to go RTB. Not really expecting much other than maybe delaying them by a few seconds having to maybe defend…
Onyl to take out 1 of them :D
near future?
Unlikely.
Least of which because the highest mark of AMRAAM fitted to a Typhoon that we are publically aware of is the C8 (iirc).
The most likely addition will be meteor if/when Gaijin determines its necessary, probably a year or 2 after they add 5th gens
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I thought the devs were deliberately not equipping it, but did the Eurofighter not carry the AIM-120D in the first place!?
From my limited knowledge, I thought the C-8 was supposed to have avionics equivalent to the 120D…
There is that too. US mains do need their handholding half the time to do even half as well as the minor nations (case in point, just had an F-15 turn hot after I had fired a missile at him, suffice to say, he did not survive)
So its in part a buff for the F-15C GE.
The thing is, whilst the UK and I think Italy have them and I beleive Germany has ordered them, they are intended as a stopgap MRAAM for the F-35 until such time the US stops delaying the intergration of Meteor on the F-35. Aim-120D is probably compatible, but why Equip Aim-120Ds when you can equip Meteor to the Typhoon?
Ive heard both that the C8 is an export version of the D and that the C8 is jus the export version of the C7. So I have no idea. Gaijin could just make the C8 a broadly equivalent missile to the D, its not exactly like the AMRAAMs are currently based upon any IRL data, but then the US mains would moan
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I’d rather look forward to the meteor tbh
Essentially typhoons can get an Aim120C8 which is just a reskin of the Aim120D. And it fits Gaijin’s agenda of “originality” since its different name
Well actually apparently C-8 doesn’t get GNSS and 2-way DL. It uses the D’s motor so only benefit over C-5 excluding electronics as Gaijin does is longer burn/battery time. So a longer C-5 basically.
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