That’s an Indonesian Hawk 209
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Oh I thought it was an RDA it looked very similar to me oops my bad.
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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
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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
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The Skyflashes and radar seem very strong for 11.3, it still looks quite fun
Is it any good at dogfighting?
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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
Unfortunately they seem to have stuck a red dust cover in the middle of the defunct Aden 25 bay, so can’t see if they actually put anything in there on production planes.
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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…
Spoiler
And a pod for 3 bombs
Has this been resolved?
Other photo. Was at Le Bourget 1987 it seems.
bigger version
I can’t really tell what bombs they are meant to be. But they look like they have SAMP logo on them
Ed:- and another photo from Le Bourget '87 that happens to have the ZH200’s Aden 25 in frame
Flickr Photo
Ed2:- Triple racked bombs are likely 125kg SAMP BL-61
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Hopefully it will be resolved soon, if it hasn’t already been.
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Gotta love Skyflash tracking a random Mirage IIIS 15km away and outside my radar illumination beam instead of the rapidly approaching F-5E lmao
To say I was confused is a mild understatement
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is it just SRC PD or SRC PD HDN?
