Hawker Siddeley AV-8S - Royal Thai Navy's Harrier

9L + 240 CMs

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Oh dang, Gaijin gave it the ALE-37!

Now if only they could do that for the AV-8C…
:(

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I hope it’s going to be TT not event or premium or squadron, because japan needs CAS for free (squadron is kind of free, but not everyone can be in the squadron)

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I thought I saw somewhere it was going to be a Premum

It is datamined as ‘non-researchable’.

  • AV-8S [JPN]:

    • Tier VII
    • BR: 9.7
    • hidden
    • non-researchable vehicle
    • stock repair cost: 2932 / 9014 / 9867 SL
    • spaded repair cost: 4243 / 13045 / 14279 SL
  • CTWV (ICV) [JPN]:

    • Tier VII
    • BR: 9.7
    • located after the Type 87 RCV / Type 89 FV folder
    • stock repair cost: 3434 / 3288 / 4382 SL
    • spaded repair cost: 5810 / 5564 / 7415 SL
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Pictures from Spanish service, AV-8S carrying AIM-9N / P / L but also twin Rails;

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Yes, and that “non-researchable” was interpreted as event, although on the statcard from the datamine (here) it says 260k RP to research, so it’s a bit confusing

The next event would be an aircraft, right?

So it could be for that

I can’t even hype this plane, it will possibly be 11.0 with poor performance from the Harrier GR1 (and it also won’t add anything to Japan’s CAS)

Iirc the next event should be the winter event, iirc thats the only event they said they were gonna keep the 3 vehicle event

Wouldn’t there still be one more event before that? Though I can also see this as possible Winter air reward

Could the non researchable just mean it hasn’t been decided where it will be in tt?

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Next even should be the dreams come true thing

After it there could still be one plane event

I personaly hope there isnt

Yes, but the “dreams come true” ends at 13 of november which is in almost 3 weeks. Why would they add fully ready plane (or almost fully ready) 3 weeks before the event instead of 3 days as usual?

I know it was more of general thing

I ment approximately 3 days, I can’t think of any vehicle form the event that was added fully spawnable and working 3 weeks before the event, it usually comes right before the event, max a week before and its just a name or mention and reference to some specific weapon.

So 3 days is just “a figure of speech” but adding the event vehicle that fast is abnormal especially for gaijin, that usually tweaks their event vehicles after release, like Fakur-90 or tornado IDS marinefliger

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The thing there I’m most curious about is actually the double bomb rack seen on the inboard pylon of that last jet. Considering the restrictive pylon count, that could literally double the drop count with a loadout including full AAMs and flares.

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I hope this is a researchable aircraft.

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