no air to ground ordinace and no HMD at 14.0
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Worse RWR, cant detect K band so its blind some SPAA
1996 model hornet while the US model is about 2007-2012
Didnt know this one. More and more reasons not to crew it.
Cant forget no 120C-5s but its not like those are better than 120bs
i didnt knew that
but i mean that dosent really matter imo, it is not like you would want to get close to the battlefield, without any A2G armament
Pantsir is basically invisible to you
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Booooo
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I probably know why they aren’t going to drop the F-18C down, because the MLU 2 will get 9X and go up and the snail will want a 14.0 vehicle on sweden
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Dang that’s crazy cuz I get fanmail almost every day
If you’re facing three guys your odds are probably low but I won’t say impossible… I’ve done it in worse aircraft;
Okay sweetie
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Who asked? You’re asserting that just turning around in the F-18 and bleeding all your energy is how you lose but I just showed you that doing the same in a MiG-29SMT (fat Betty) was the winning move in a 1v3 against aircraft equipped with AIM-9L/M.
So… the way I see it, I’ve proven my point. Yours appeals to false authority. The F-18 has no issues flaring ordnance when done so properly. Each aircraft is unique, some better and some worse at certain scenarios.
You want to excel in something? Know it’s strengths and weaknesses. American players using phantoms been complaining about missiles eating them alive since the introduction of the R-60 and spoiled players who flew the F-5 are surprised when they fly anything else and their countermeasures don’t quite seem as effective. You seem to be the latter.
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The F-18 is fine at flaring. The only people who struggle flaring are people who dont know how to do it. Too many people dont cut afterburner or fire a few flares, rather they spam flares and just lead the missle to themselves.
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I agree, the orientation and placement is less than ideal though as they’ve said. To do so the same way they did in other aircraft would be foolish.
Exactly, people need to understand their aircraft more. Also learning basic flaring usage wouldn’t be bad either.
Reminds me of Naval phantom players trying to dodge missiles like the flares were coming from the bottom like on the F4E, while flying the F4J and having the spine area flare pods and just guiding the missile and complaining about the vehicle or the enemy missile instead of adapting to the new flare launch and its positioning.
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Can anyone tell me what this camera lookin thing is?
I can only see it on the Finnish/Swiss Hornets, is it something to due with the Export models?
Spotlight to help identify unknown aircraft at night. Canada, Switzerland and Finland ordered it because they use their F-18’s as interceptors and wanted prevent Korean Air 007 style situation.
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The F-16A-15 ADF’s also have one as well.
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Thanks a ton .
Right coming back here after cooling off, I’d like to say I kind of lost my gourd over the F18C early because I quite frankly can’t for the life of me figure out how to fly it. So apologies for my previous tone.
Hopefully I can overcome the mountain of skill issue I’m having with it because it’s genuinely good, I’m just a potato.
one issue i’ve been having with the AIM7P though, is locking a target flying level with a good launch and the missile dips mid course and loses track forcing me to get close and shoot a second missile, why is that?
Think of it as an A-6 / A-7 that can defend itself. It’s not great in an Air to Air role.
The angular falloff that the Illumination waveform should have isn’t modeled, so its like a cone, not a balloon like it should be.
Basically there are a lot of little abstractions that gaijin are doing, that makes Sparrows in particular shit.
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