That’s actually a really good comparison. At least when looking at BR placement.
The biggest difference would be the amount of ordinance it can bring. (and 3 of the 4 bomber Vautours having 30mm canons for self defence and AI ground killing)
Since BR is based on average efficiency and the Vautour can bring 6x1000lb bombs its going to, on average, perform better than the F-117 that can only bring two bombs (i don’t know max size). So lets say you can take out one base with two bombs, the Vautour will be able to take out 3 bases in one spawn and the F-117 would in that case only take out 1 base on the same spawn.
So my guess would be a low 8.x BR placement for the F-117
I don’t want to see this thing. No matter what the weight is, it’s useless. The air combat performance is not good and the ground combat efficiency is low. The weight of 8.7 is not the same. It’s not as good as 8.0, because I can do better with other planes, no matter what.
It will pick them up. Just not as far out as it can see a “normal” airplane.
Thats all “stealth” gets you. It reduces the range at which a radar can get enough of a return to filter you out of the background noise, and makes it more difficult to maintain a track/solution on you.
That’s exactly how the 1999 shoot down occurred. At low enough frequency and close enough range they could “see” the F117, and knew where it was going to operating so they laid a trap.
In game, the easiest way to model it is to 1/2,-1/4, or 1/3 the range at which whatever system can engage it.
It will also be useless at 8.7 where they have it on dev, it’s not stealthy whatsoever, 9L locks it at 5km front aspect which is no different than a F14B on full burner.
Genuinely hilarious considering any IR lock is an instant death sentence.
Oh your telling me when Gaijin said it will have an reduced IR signature it doesn’t? Well it is 1st version of the dev server I am certain they won’t force this update out before fix everything wrong like the last one.
What type of radar did the Iraqis have in Baghdad?
If the stealth ability of the F-117 is truly as bad as it is modeled in WT, how did they manage to circle directly above the city without being accurately engaged and destroyed?
From the limited testing I have done in custom battles, it seems the stealth is hmmm kinda OK-ish in the frontal aspect, but absolutely awful in rear aspect. So how then do you circle and still remain undetected?
