Yeah, I’ve heard its not right, but alas yeah, they wont change them again.
At this point I kinda just accepted it, and am hoping that more modern variants of the Paveway at least get better seekers. So I was very happy to hear the new Tornado was getting Paveway IV and EGBU-24. So tomorrow I will get to see if their seekers are any different (hint: IRL nothing about the seeker changed, I wonder why?).
Then there is also the big funny that Paveway III share the same seeker range as Paveway IIs despite being significantly larger, but oh well, I don’t know what the real value for that thing is either, so fair enough. AFAIK the laser seeker values of most other weapons are a bit made up as well.
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I am really interested by the ePaveways. They sound like a powder keg for bugs, but sound like they could be really interesting/fun to use.
But yes, hopefully they’ll be a flat buff in terms of laser performance as well
Every spaa can spot it within their maximum engagement zone, if not even beyond that
You might want to think about 8 decades…
The USAAF fought nobody with a somehow equal airforce (regarding numbers) since spring 1944…after they suffered heavy losses without noticeable success in A2A combat above Europe and North Africa 1942 - 1943.
In the Pacific the majority of experienced fighter pilots of IJN were gone after the Battle of Midway in 1942 - together with the majority of their combat ready fleet carriers. So just a numbers game for the USN/USMC pilots after that.
Any further combats & conflicts were just asymmetric wars regarding air power, either they totally outnumbered opponents or those had no airforce. Even in Korea total US/UN losses exceeded CHN/USSR/NK aircraft losses.
lol “zombing” with two (2) whole bombs
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Its a stealth plane, knowing gaijin, radar won’t pick it up.
8.3 air rb? Wow. We are really letting the USA have the run of the place now.
I imagine the Su-34 will be at 13.0 or 13.3
How the **** do you find this to be overpowered
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Where else would it be? It has a poor payload, no offensive armament, and it isn’t supersonic.
you see, its overpowered because it can absolutely do nothing in air rb except destroy a couple howitzers max
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Litterally 2 🤣
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yes because it only has 2 bombs
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Depending on the bombs and the score multiplier? Quite sufficient.
The p-51H can instakill bases with 2 firebombs and almost max out on reward (max reward is 13.2K sl/15 min for 1050 score, I got 11.4k with 400 sth score).
Lets compare them briefly
Su-34
- 10 hard points able to carry a combo of up to 6x R-73 or 8x R-77s from what I can tell.
- Likely a decent radar
- overall good handling, not top tier dogfighter but certainly a top tier BVR Truck.
Im guessing 13.3-13.7
F-117
- Subsonic
- No CMs
- No Guns
- No AAMs
- Max payload, 2x GBUs in a variety of sizes up to the 2k Paveway
Im guessing 8.7 +/- 0.3 BR based upon the placement of the Buc S1
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Im hoping they give the F-117 Bunkerbuster bombs that have a high damage multiplier vs bases, so 2x bombs is just enough for a base
don’t forget the F-117 also doesn’t have an RWR
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Really? Now that im surprised about, figured it would.
RWR as a tool isn’t needed in modern jet warfare with ECM suites
RWR…it didn’t…but it did…
Early aircraft had RLS (Radar Location System) with retractable antenna under the wings.
The origins of these is a mystery of its own as Lockeheed engineers don’t attribute them to any buiild equipment. Did the airforce add them themselves? Was it so secret it stil can’t be discussed? Why where they later removed/sealed shut? Was there a replacement piece of equipment?
The Nighthawk is a gift that keeps on giving.
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