F/A-18 Hornet (Legacy): History, Performance & Discussion

18deg/s at 0,35Mach? Gaijin when?
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The British made a mistake, I corrected the graph a little xDDD

You certainly mean the F-14A right? Not the B?

I never said A or B

It would only make sense to say that about the F-14A, which is why I asked for clarification.

Smin says F-18 can supercruise and has speed of 1.2 mach, range of 960 miles while supercruising;

No such statement has been made. Please do not mislead people.

This is an example sentence taken from the definition of supercruise. Such definitions frequently form a sentence within the context of terminology for better understanding.

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Soon

I suppose F/A-18C (config 1992 ~ Q2 1994) post desert storm might be new pre-order premium rank 8, and equipped AN/AAS-38A NITE Hawk Pod

but pre JHMCS, AIM-9X (Block I), AIM-120C-5, JDAM, LJDAM, AGM-154 JSOW and SLAM-ER service

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It might F/A-18A+ config 2003 ~ Q1 2004 to researchable tree.

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I dont think war thunder is quite ready for the Aim-9X and those types of missiles.

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It will be eventually (well… usually… cough R-77 and Bison). As has been seen with other aircraft, it may not come with such weaponry initially, but it’ll likely obtain them I the future when said weaponry is added.

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Probably the best way to decompress stuff by sending them up in br a lot

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I mean F/A-18C (config Q3 1991 ~ Q1 1994) post desert storm era pre JHMCS, AIM-9X (Block 1), AIM-120C, AGM-154 JSOW, AGM-84 SLAM-ER, JDAM, LJDAM and APKWS II service

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Cool little nod to the Gulf War with an F/A-18 shooting down an Iraqi MiG-21 while carrying 4 2000 pound bombs. Pretty sure there’s on-plane footage of the shootdown too

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It’s been a long way, but we’re here.

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Trailer didn’t do it justice, hopefully the arsenal and flight model will be accurate so this beast can be properly represented.

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SLAM and JSOW when?

I would love to see the Australian F/A-18A/B in the game

Can someone report wrong CM amount on F/A-18C late? On dev stream it was 60, but IRL and at 3D model ingame it has 4 dispenser, not 2 like old models.

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