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Summer gon be naval thinghy. F/A-18A/C and maybe the A-6E :)
I’ve been saying the F-18 is a monster WVR and I think Gaijin agrees - hence the lack of F-18 content. It’s not going to be flying around high and fast like an F-15 but the raw amount of ordnance it carries puts it in a weird spot. Especially if we get the F-18C.
The F-18A might be able to come, but without HMD and with the air to ground options it will just be in a weird spot. The fact that they skipped early Rafale makes me think they’ll do the same for F-18.
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At this point im expecting SuperHornet rather than legacy models.
Perhaps, but that one is not anywhere near as good WVR and would rely more heavily on improved ordnances and EW.
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Could we not get both? Legacy C variant in the strike aircraft line after the AV-8B+ and the Super E variant after the F-14B? Not sure where that leaves a potential F-14D though.
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Tbh i dont know but personally i prefer SuperHornet due to its different design, those new engine intakes looks much cooler than legacy hornet’s intakes :D
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It’s the nose that does it for me, so I’m good with either lol
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Ok, Walt Disney xd
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Hi, have you seen General Lee’s video on the Hornet? It left mixed feelings in me.
No, I pretty much don’t watch any war thunder youtubers. It’s a total waste of time for me.
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His take on Hornet’s performance is quite different from yours and also his vids are popular and I keep reading as of late that Hornet will be DOA. People compare it to worse Sukhoi because it apparently loses a lot of speed in hard manouvers. It is whatever, just people hatch onto the idea from this vid.
If he says it will be DOA he is wrong, it’s rather simple.
If you consider “not top tier” as DOA, the majority of aircraft in the game were DOA.
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Performance aside, I think the main reason Gaijin isn’t adding the F/A-18 this patch is due to the fact it can go to multiple nations at once. That would pretty much require an updated dedicated to just the Hornets, and perhaps a Chinese and Russian counter.
Also add on to that the fact the US has essentially gotten 3 extremely competitive/meta aircraft almost in a row (with some earlier aircraft being made more meta due to more advanced weapons being added), it kinda makes sense to forgo the Hornet for one more update.
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I know this is legacy hornet discussion but I would like to point out that not all Super Hornets will be inferior to the F-18C legacy w/ GE-402 engines. The GE-402 engines provided the Legacy Hornets a substantial improvement in flight performance rivaling the F-16 in sustained turns. The Super Hornets also got an improved F414 with enhanced performance that gave them an additional ~20% thrust.
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@ID_Heaven I saw that ;)
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You saw nothing
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This should hopefully make any Super Hornet fans in here very happy
f18 for germany lol :)
Can you show F/A-18 Hornet in Luftwaffe service?
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