I don’t think the B would go in the attacker line, as it was pretty much just a two-seat A.
It’d be better off as an event vehicle
That’s a pretty good point, as, looking it up now, F/A-18Bs were really just used as training aircraft, while F/A-18Ds were used as A-6 replacements.
It’d be cool as an event vehicle, with a bunch of training squadron skins. VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters, USN Test Pilot School, etc.
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Would be new event vehicle rank 8 for USA tech tree because used training but fully combat-capable like F/A-18A
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I sure that it should be at the end of the German F4 line, since German don’t rly have any 13.7 fighters, It sucks to be a German main, when every other nation has 6-8 FOX.3 missles
Cool, but Just curious why?
I don’t think so, because that’s where the Typhoon will go. If Germany gets an F-18 it’ll be Swiss or Spanish, which would probably be its own line. Otherwise if just the F-18 is added without a proper subtree it’d almost certainly be after the MiG-29G because there is no other vehicles that logically follow it, save the very skeptical Su-27S.
A Kuwaiti F/A-18C would make for a good Premium, Event or Squadron vehicle for the US.
Big engine C model but no Fox 3s.
(at least that’s what I found)
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And with today’s announcement that the SU-33 is a Squadron Vehicle I think it would be perfect.
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They should add a f-18 that is a squadron vehicle like the YF-17 and add F-18’s in the tech tree
And they should add the early F-18’s and then as the game updates they add new f-18’s
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The F/A-18 is named that way because it’s both a fighter and a strike aircraft, so it belongs in both lines.
I feel like a good solution would be to put the twin seater (such as the F/A-18B) under the strike line branching from AV-8B+, and the single seater (like the F/A-18A) under the navy fighter line branching from F-14B.
After all twin seaters are preferred for strike missions and single seaters for air superiority…
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The thing that kinda bugs me/leaves me with more questions than answers is that both the USMC and USN sort of had weapons that were more branch-specific on their Hornets, both single and dual-seat.
Would Gaijin add them in with just the weapons from a specific branch, or would they add all the weapons they operationally carried?
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Maybe give the f-14 branch fa18 navy weapons and the av8b branch fa18 marines weapons? Idk, could work maybe
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That could work
I’m more keen on them just giving the Hornets weaponry from both branches, as well as some GE/researchable camos representing both branches
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Unfortunately it seems unlikely at the moment, given that the developers have said they are not considering ARM for now.
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Personally, I suppose F/A-18D (Early) from desert storm BR 12.7 and to early rank 8 before AV-8B+
But F/A-18B it might event vehicle because engine targeting pod and armaments like F/A-18A and F/A-18C/D Early in gulf war
F/A-18D Late BR to 14.3 minimum, equipped Litening AT targeting pod
F/A-18D armament, my guess.
- AIM-9M-8
- AIM-9X (Blk 1)
- AIM-7P (Blk 2)
- AIM-120C-4
- AIM-120C-5
- AIM-120C-7
- AGM-65E & AGM-65F
- GBU-31(V)2/B
- GBU-32(V)2/B
- GBU-38(V)2/B
- GBU-54(V)2/B
- GBU-10, GBU-12 & GBU-16 Paveway II
- GBU-24E/B Paveway III
- AGM-84K SLAM-ER
- AGM-154A & AGM-154C JSOW
- ADM-141D
- AGM-84M Harpoon
F/A-18A+ or F/A-18A++ after F-14B and F-14D
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hornet before the av8b+? idk how to feel about that… maybe, but I’d rather do this:
F-14B (13.0) → F/A-18C (13.3 or 13.7) → F/A-18E (14.0)
AV-8B+ (13.0) → F/A-18D (13.3 or 13.7) → F/A-18F (14.0)
Idk if that’s right, that’s just how I feel about it
They Super Hornets should come after the F-14’s but the Legacy Hornets should come after the AV-8B+ since the Legacy Hornets replaced the US Navy attack aircraft like the A-7’s which are in that line.
The Super Hornet, while also serving alongside the F-14, was to be the replacement for them.