Didn’t GE it actually, just played the hell outta the 200 and my Talismanned F.3. The update luckily dropped on a week I had off work, so I’ve had the chance to lock in and really grind it out.
I did GE the skyflashes though… Just 9Ls was miserable enough on the 200
understandable.
Im like 60k into the hawk 200 basic right now… i got the harrier gr1 but its just been grim playing it as of the patch, so many times tked by people wanting to steal kills is unreal.
If the team isn’t full of prems 12.0 was pretty nice
If the team is full of prems, well put it this way, I need to replace some switches on my keyboard tomorrow
Though why haven’t people learned how to defeat phoenixes yet??!
That’s an Indonesian Hawk 209
Oh I thought it was an RDA it looked very similar to me oops my bad.
Been really enjoying the Hawk 200 RDA TBH, almost everything I wanted from a 11.3.
Just needs a gun or some extra skyflashes and it’d be perfect. You’re main limiting factor is still speed though, the game is usually decided before you get in. Which can leave the lack of a gun a fairly glaring problem as the enemy team rushes you for an “easy” kill, the Skyflashes can deal with 2 comfortably but after that it takes some luck to get anything with the 9Ls
They are very similar and the RDA really should get a gunpod, but they have some tiny fuselage differences that gaijin insists prevent the gunpod being added
The Skyflashes and radar seem very strong for 11.3, it still looks quite fun
Is it any good at dogfighting?
hmmm, BR for BR it doesn’t feel any stronger than the F.3 for example. Yes you have good kit, but the flight performance isn’t there to dictate fights
Yes and no, it’s pretty good at defensively flying and getting the nose around, but looses energy pretty quick and it doesn’t have the weapon’s kit to really do anything in a dog fight.
I believe there was a report that its sustained turning was underperforming a lot, im not sure if that was ever addressed though
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/NzPlYjaS39BD
Couple of photos of the Hawk 200’s proposed NAV/Recce pod
Appears to be a Vinten Vicon 18-300 recce pod
Also a photo of the first production Hawk 203 for Oman being built at Brough
Watch as it goes to 11.7
Ohhh so it’s a recce pod, I was losing my mind trying to figure out what was on the belly in this photo…
And a pod for 3 bombs
Has this been resolved?
