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.
Would be new event vehicle rank 8 for USA tech tree because used training but fully combat-capable like F/A-18A
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)
And with today’s announcement that the SU-33 is a Squadron Vehicle I think it would be perfect.
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
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…
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?
Maybe give the f-14 branch fa18 navy weapons and the av8b branch fa18 marines weapons? Idk, could work maybe
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
Unfortunately it seems unlikely at the moment, given that the developers have said they are not considering ARM for now.
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.
F/A-18A+ or F/A-18A++ after F-14B and F-14D
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.
It could always be done where the F/A-18C and F/A-18E come after the F-14B, with the F/A-18D (USMC) and F/A-18F coming after the AV-8B+
