While it is subject for more research recently it’s been found that in 2018 Japan tested the EA-18G Growler
Wait, are you getting maps with carriers? I haven’t had a single map with a carrier show up for jets since the F-4J came in. Since then, literally NEVER a carrier
I think this photo was doctored by photoshop or other means.
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I play air Sim. Whilst the choice can be limited, you can pick which map you want to play and several have carriers for both teams. This allows for both take offs and landings.
Quick caviat though. Carriers are also destroyable and often targetted, especially as they have recently disabled the carrier AA. Once a carrier has been sunk. It can respawn, but you cant repair or rearm on it and can always be sunk again
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They may be Swiss by name but they’re British designed and built, a lot of them were just ex-RAF jets.
Anyway I like the subtree idea, would allow for more nations to be in the game in a way that makes sense! +1
That sounds exactly like the F-16A Netz, they were all US made and a lot of them we’re ex US service aircraft but you don’t see anyone saying the USA should get them, the fact is there is no good reason that the Swiss Hunter should have gone to the British.
Or at least gotten a carbon copy. The RAF also operated an almost an identical version of the Swiss Hunter for many years as their primary ground attacker. We need an RAF version of the Hunter FGA9 which had the same CMs and other capabilities of the Swiss Hunter. But they decided to add the Rhodesian FGA9 which was used as a fighter.
RAF FGA.9s never had countermeasures or guided weapons (air to air or air to ground).
Or whichever version did have that
Maybe Singapore or India ?
If images on internet are correct
Then Singapore FGA74S variant was able to equip 4 Sidewinders which is great however the issue with this variant is that it may not have any countermeasures
Oman’s Hunter Mk.73 were upgraded by Singapore and included AN/ALE-40 dispensers as well as the additional inboard AIM-9(P) pylons found on Singapore’s own Mk.74S
Not seen images of them with the same 4x sidewinder loadout but it seems likely they could. Would need to investigate if they also had the same fuselage racks for bombs that Singapore’s Mk.74S had.
However, two Ex-Swiss Mk.58s also operated in the UK as adversarial aircraft owned by Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd with pilots from Cobham/FR Aviation. In spite of being civilian owned they were/are on the Military Aircraft Register and have UK military serials and roundels (ZZ190 and ZZ191). So there’s really no reason the Mk.58 wasn’t appropriate for the British tree in the first place.
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I don’t care much for reading an entire thread about the Hawker Hunter when the title states “F/A-18”.
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Gotcha. Yeah, I main ARB and I haven’t seen a carrier in over a year in normal battles…
Yeah, its a real shame
@Acroute F/A-18C early from finnish without Air-to-ground weapons & targeting pod which unlike F/A-18C from USN/USMC ?
This is due to the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty which prevented Finland to operate aircraft with internal bomb bays and air-to-ground guided missiles, so Finland ordered F/A-18C/Ds without A2G capabilities.
Later, the LITENING targeting pod and JDAM, JSOW-C, JASSM were integrated to Finnish Hornets by MLU 2 program.
That means F/A-18C early from finnish might be all-weather tactical fighter aircraft like F-15 Eagle & F-14A Tomcat ?
F/A-18C MLU 2/Mod. 2015 for finnish air force upgraded nearby F/A-18E Super Hornet Block II standard ?
No Legacy hornets are upgraded to super hornet, they’re two separate aircraft entirely.
It definitely improved a lot by MLU upgrade, but not that much.