Nope.
Gaijin when? theres so many aircraft where the minimum fuel is so much more than the required flight time where its sometimes comical. 1-2 hour minimum fuel aircraft should get it at least.
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soon
what fuel dumping do? how it will perfom in game? is it like a flamethrower than can kill enemies behind you?
It might do damage to aircraft behind at close range, but it might also be purely aesthetic.
The more beneficial aspect is the ability to ditch unneeded fuel. We will have to wait and see what the minimums are set to, but even if they can drop down to minimum fuel, this means you can run more than is needed and dump fuel when you enter a fight to gain an advantage.
Also for aircraft like the Harrier, they need to be below a certain weight to enter the hover which is needed for VTOL carrier landing in SB. Even landing a normal aircraft can be hairy with too much fuel.
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Yes for the Harriers it will be useful but I think the aircraft that will benefit the most will be the World War II bombers, being able to drop half or three-quarters of the fuel that is useless to them will make them much more pleasant to fly.
Unless they make it so that you can only dump down to minimum fuel. We’ll have to wait and see what they do
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Very few aircraft could/should be able to ignite dumped fuel. The Aardvarks being one of the few exceptions.
Designers specifically intended for there to NOT be a fire hazard from where they place the plumbing, and jet fuel especially isn’t going to catch fire just because you shoot a tracer thru the plume.
Another one of those “devs had time for this instead of fixing other problems”.
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