how are these two exactly same planes completely different, have different missles, the same plane carry different stuff, and HOW IS THE HUNTER 10.0 AND THE MK1 HAVE NO MISSLES AT 9.0? THIS FEELS LUDICROUS
how are these two exactly same planes completely different, have different missles, the same plane carry different stuff, and HOW IS THE HUNTER 10.0 AND THE MK1 HAVE NO MISSLES AT 9.0? THIS FEELS LUDICROUS
Because it’s used by the Swiss, and we had ours armed differently than the Brits.
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The Hunter F1 never had any suspended weapons IRL.
It is the original concept designed to replace the Venom and Meteors, a pure gunfighter.
It continued to get upgrades, such as increased fuel capacity and its first external mountings for external tanks, this is also around the time that missiles started to make an appearance too, so you see versions like the Hunter F4 enter service (J-34 in-game) with the capacity to carry Aim-9Bs.
The F6 was the first to feature more hardpoints and increased multi-role ability and we can see this with both variants of the Hunter F6. They also then realised it was a super stable platform and could do more than just Air to Air.
From the F6 you had dedicated ground attacker variants such as the FGA9 and export variants like the F58. The Swiss also then heavily upgraded and modified the Hunter F58 to meet their needs
TLDR, the Hunter F1 and Hunter F6 are 2 very different aircraft, with different engines and wings.
So
| Engine | Wing | Missile | CMs | RWR | BR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter F1 | Avon 113 | Basic | None | None | No | 8.7 |
| J-34 (Hunter F4) | Avon 115 | Basic | 2x Aim-9B | None | No | 9.0 |
| Hunter F6 (Dutch) | Avon 203 | Dogtooth | 2x Aim-9B | None | Yes | 9.3 |
| Hunter F58 (1971) | Avon 207 | Dogtooth | 2x Aim-9E | None | No | 9.3 |
| Hunter FGA9 | Avon 207 | Dogtooth | 2x Aim-9E | None | No | 9.3 |
| Hunter F6 (RAF) | Avon 207 | Dogtooth | 4x SRAAM | None | No | 10.0 |
| Hunter F58 | Avon 207 | Dogtooth | 2x Aim-9P | 60 | Yes | 10.0 |
With the exception of the F6 being over BRed at 10.0 with no CMs, the rest of them are fine in RB, with BRs that make sense (SB BRs are totally stupid, but thats another matter entirely). Decompression would be nice though.
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the british one is violently overtiered because of 4 rather crap missiles. count yourself lucky to have aim9E at 9.3
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Calling one of the best missiles at 10.0 “crap” is certainly a decision.
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Weaker than Aim-9G, Magic I, probably Aim-9P, R-60