Eh, the ADEN 30’s use 30x113B, not a lot of propellant so is fairly low velocity
I guess, but it’s pretty low pen (4mm or so in game) so you’d probably be better off with the 25mm APHE
The ADEN30 was primarily developed IRL for taking out bombers, so they only really cared about the amount of HE filler, for better or for worse
I thought the RDA wasn’t coming with any guns at all. Did we find evidence to the contrary?
RDA… We’ll have to wait and see what they do. Limited evidence 1x 25mm ADEN and radar could be fitted and then the whole gunpod situation, but could end up with none.
Though the convo above was more about the regular 10.7 hawk
Gotcha, would be a shame if it didn’t come with something. Even only the 1 gun would be better than nothing.
Issue is the RDA, being a non-production variant, never had any pictures taken with the gun on. Despite nearly all official brochures saying it could carry the 30mm ADEN gun pod like production hawks, Gaijin stubbornly wants photo evidence. Its a bit annoying, since the only thing stopping it from being installed right now is a bit of mesh overlapping, but that Gaijin doesn’t want to sacrifice an inch of realism on this plane specifically is quite annoying. Not to mention many other planes having “Planned ordnance” that they never got, but for some reason on this thing, which is already gonna be one hell of a struggle bus, they refuse.
Hopefully something does turn up from this, could also be worth asking about the gunpod too. They might have some info about that which would be great.
@Smin1080p_WT @Gunjob Any chance either of you know if this is being followed up by the devs?
ballistics and stealth/ap belt is absolute meme on the 25. Its a massive downgrade to go to 30mm adens against supersonics really.
Like, with the harrier gr7 I was sniping people 3km away from me in head on attacks, long before they even open fire lol.
Peeps also forget the 25mm has APHE, which is grand itself.
All i know is, if its 30mm adens, I will prob ignore the base version for the RDA. Might even just go “nah” and play mb 326k lol.
I mean, they did that with the F-20 (modelled after prototypes N44671 and N3986B in the 1983 production standard, but has two skins of proto 1 N4416T in 1979 production standard)
Also, rather stupid question regarding the Hawk 200: did it have an internal self-starting system, or did it have to rely on external means?
In this case they’ve got both ZH200 (The base Hawk 200) and ZJ201 (The Hawk 200 RDA) in game, that’s why I’m confused. They’re giving the RDA (The 3rd prototype) a livery of the 2nd prototype, but the 2nd prototype is in game as the basic Hawk 200.
Self start like the two seater Hawks afaik
No guns or gun pods for the RDA on live server.
And still 30mm on Hawk 200
rank III skyflash though on RDA. Great move gaijin :) Very much appreciated.
but without guns :(
Thank you very much
Any ideas on the specifics?
I’ve been looking into fighter/strike aircraft-mounted APUs/self-starters (mainly spurred by heavy research into both the Legacy Harriers and A-4M Skyhawk II)
Nothing I have says anything about the APU itself unfortunately, just that it’s there :/
wait what??? how is the stock grind? is it something ridiculous like 2 9l’s?
Presumably it’s the same as on other Hawks and uses the Microturbo Saphir 047 Gas Turbine Starter
You can see the dorsal inlet for it on top of the Hawk 200, same as was on the T.1
And the Hawks still have stupid BRs for GRB.
Thats a shame. But they gotta nerf Britain I suppose, would be unfair if they were on-par with the A-10As
