THE SWISS PLANES DO NOT HAVE THE SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO DO GROUND ATTACK.
The Swiss Government literally said that that they are not integrated.
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Switzerland: Our F/A-18C can’t do Ground Attack. We didn’t buy that capability because we didn’t need it.
WT Forum: It can do Ground Attack if you just hook German Mavericks on it.
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at most it’ll just get some dummy bombs unless Gaijin absolutely just ignores the fact that it didn’t get AGMs. Which… If we look at the F-16AJ… Japan to my knowledge never even purchased Mavericks-
Absolutely true
The only problem is that we’re playing War Thunder,a game that has precedents of them bending their own laws so that they can add things tat were never used on a vehicle or remove things for balance reasons
Just wait until the dev stream/dev server so that we can see
IMO,it would be fine as a pure fighter,no need for ground ordnance
they have the systems, they just dont have the weapons if you took some time to read you could actually see they never removed the systems because that would’ve meant an extra cost
point me out again where it says its technicaly unable to use A2G ordenance, all i am reading here is mavericks cost the swiss people to much and wouldnt satisfy swiss requirments they would have for a A2G ordenance that they would want to use
they didnt say that anywhere lol, they only said the mavericks would cost them to much and they dont fit into their army plan
Since you don’t seem to understand the German Source:
Switzerland had Mavericks at this point in Time. They were bought in 1984.
The Mavericks were used on Hunter Mk 58A Aircraft.
The Federal Council says it would be technically possible to integrate the Mavericks that Switzerland had in Stock on the F/A-18 but it would entail high costs. Not because Switzerland would need to buy Mavericks but because the F/A-18 that were already ordered at this point would have to be retrofitted to fire Mavericks.
The rest it says is that the F/A-18C are being acquired only for Air-Policing.
And nowhere does it say that it wouldn’t satisfy the swiss requirements for A2G ordinance but rather it says that Switzerland does not want to use the F/A-18s for Ground Combat because that would be an unwanted fragmentation of the Swiss Military.
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i understand german, they said as well that the mavericks dont fit their requirements towards A2G ordenance that is the main issue.
not mentioning how the mavericks might have started hitting their shelf life together with the ordered hunters
ah yes, totaly wasnt written anywhere
Yes, they had bought AGM-65Bs, which by the time F/A-18C entered service were already grossly outdated and about to hit their shelf life. So, they’d have to pay for either a completely new stockpile (costs), integrate these new Mavericks into the jet (costs), and convince the population they actually need them, or simply don’t buy anything - which of the two do you choose? Do you see how all the reasons for them not having up-to-date CAS capability boils down mostly to costs of acquiring new ordnance and its integration into the aircraft?
The price of new AGM-65s alone probably turned them away from the idea.
The reason why they don’t have any CAS capability is because Switzerland didn’t need any CAS capability in the mid 90s. And so they saved money and didn’t buy any
nicely said they didnt buy any new mavericks, doesnt mean the f/A 18c is unable to use them
Yes, that is the point. They have the capability to carry out CAS duties, but they can’t because they don’t have the necessary ordnance.
This however does not apply to War Thunder, where, even if the sub-TT hasn’t got the weapons in question, can still be provided with them as long as the host-TT had them (in this case, German Mav Ds & Gs, as well as LGBs).
@tahsky so we have a nice assortment of swiss cockpit pictures for you, showing a2g controlls.
Additionaly the gun ballustic computer still exists and the armament propably works teough the same computer.
Lastly production processes are streamlined, to mske them cheaper. There is no other f/a 18C without the capability. Meaning they would need to partialy redesign the swiss one to remove the features potentialy.
Which at one point very like just would make the production more expensive becsuse it becomes nonstandard
Always happy to add another KV-1 to my brick line up.
sir murder is a crime.
Oh god this is going to be depressing. Yet another ZSU variant added to the game while Gaijoobles refuses to address the SPAA gaps in other nations, honestly I hope the F-18 in this list is applied to all nations that should get one like Britain via Canada, US, or Sweden via Finland and speaking of Sweden why must they copy and paste a heavy tank just to lock it behind a paywall? Why not add something like the Kranvagn? Despite these downisdes other leaked vehicles seem decently nifty but I really dont think we need yet another ZSU and rather something that actually applies to a gap ingame already like Sweden’s non existant heavies or US’s SPAA gap between 4.0 and 7.7 (which tbf I don’t know of a balanced option but somebody will find one). This is a heavily biased point if view seeing as I main those nations but my point stands nonetheless.
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i believe F-18 is gonna be for a next update and hence why it says delayed
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Yeah I just noticed it. Honestly I feel like before the F-18 gaijin should do a bit more with BRs anyways so its good for it to be put on hold. Between ground and air, there is no reason any 9.3/7 should see A-10s and AIM-9Ls and albeit they all have similar performance but I find it weird that the Leo2A5, 2A6, PSO, and 2A7V are all the exact same BR.