The “Late/Early” naming thing doesn’t really have to do with version in that way, it’s the order in which they come in BR. At least as far as i understand it.
The “Late” or “Early” doesn’t have to do with upgrades or IRL versions, it’s the order they come in BR placement compared to tech tree variant. So no, it isn’t a “late” version and doesn’t have that name in-game either. At least that is how i’ve understood it.
Example: The F-4F Early is the earliest version of the German Phantom. The F/A-18C Early versions are a bit lighter, have worse engines, and fewer countermeasures. The Late versions are upgraded versions of these vehicles.
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Either way, it doesn’t have the “Late” or “Early” name so wouldn’t fall under the ones named in the changelog. Even if it could be called one of those it currently isn’t and changelog goes by in-game name and not variant compared to IRL upgrades.
Another example is the AJS37 and AJS37 Early . They are completely 100% identical (except for the skin) so i don’t think the naming scheme has anything to do with IRL upgrades.
no it doesn’t
it says F/A-18C Late (All) which did all get it
then seperately F/A-18C Early without a Nation → US version
this leads me to believe the German one intentionally did not get them
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It is a little odd that the C (early) has them, and the C (late) has them… but the C(on time) dose not.
It makes it sound like it hade the capability, then it was remove, then it was reinstalled, especially as the A has them at 12.0 as well.
But it dose make sense that the capabilities would be integrated to the domestic USA aircraft before export variants.
technical capability is definitely there
we know the Swiss F/A-18Cs got all their ground ordenance because of that, swizerland didnt actually buy and doesn’t use Any A2G armament for their Hornets
the HARM and Harpoon situation is weird yes, but given that Literally every other Hornet, including the swiss Tech tree one did get AGM-84 and AGM-88 I can only see this as intentional or sloppy work
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The changelog states the versions, not the names.
So to you, this is not an Abrams?
Ohh you mean the lame, zero effort, copy-paste trash that Gaijin added this update? While the AJS37 was introduced in the “La Royale” update? If your theory is that “early” means that it was added frist, then it’s more wrong than you could imagine
What a “game master” we have here…
How would this even work? how would players know what vehicles got the change or not if it wasn’t based on the in-game names?
Never said it was.
Game Masters handle in-game chat and name bans (among a few other things), we don’t know more about the game than any other player. Not sure what you mean by this.
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will the swiss F-18C ever get the AGM-84H?
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some JSOWs would also be epic
Zero response from Gaijin…
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Did Swiss Hornets ever actually get Air to Ground irl
No, and Switzerland uses or used not a single one of the suspended weapons that we got in game for the Early, and only the AIM-120 for the Late is correct (B and C, not perfectly sure about the subvariant of the C though…).
I think it’s actually the case with the most unauthentic weapons load of all in WT. Zero out of 16 weapons correct, not easy to beat.
The only correct parts are the drop tanks and the AN/AAS-38B, but those are not weapons…
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You say the drop tanks aren’t weapons, but I don’t think they’d be pleasant to be hit by in free-fall
Closest imo is probably the JAS39A that is using RB 71 DF (Skyflash DF). That planes radar doesn’t even have a CW illuminator and has never had one so the plane is using a missile that it is impossible for it to fire IRL :)
I mean even if it never got the A2G weapons, since they added soem anyways its now weird to exclude them now. i mean it would track with germany always getting worse air stuff though
as I said: