Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

It’s as close to being confirmed as we can possibly get.

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PLEASE :p

Yea true

it is coming

eh they could still pull an F/A 18

I dont know im hesitant to hope for the E its still a bit early imo

If it is an early E it should be fine

Will F-15S be added to the UK in this update?

Why would it? I’d imagine that Gaijin would add an early E block that won’t have AESA radar.

It will still be the fastest jet in the game by a large margin no? And its ordinance count will be absurd and people already complain about CAS as it is

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Even still the non AESA radar will be VERY powerful

Yeah… But the E has a lower thrust-to-weight ratio, which means its climb performance will be worse (important if you want to lob Fox 3s), and the weight will mean it’ll probably turn even worse than the Flanker in its nerfed state.

Ofc it will its a strike fighter its not meant to dogfight

I know and understand that the F15E is extremely heavy

This is air RB performance. I don’t see how the F-15E will be too unreasonable in ground RB, considering we have SPAA like the Pantsir and probably more in future updates.

Absolutely I get your point but if the F15E preforms like I expect even the Pan might struggle a bit as broken as it is not to mention the other poor SAMs

Ofc I could just be overexaggerating my image of what the F15E is ill just have to see

if it an early one its performance would be a F15C but heavier

Later the E does get better engines just depends on what one they add

I too would like to see an F-15E, but will there be an F-15I added? The F-15I is basically the same as the early F-15E with the only difference being the number of C/Ms and Python 4.

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It can use AIM-9M just fine. Armament is a balance factor afterall

Eh, IIRC, even with the China ASEAN leak, there was a specific mention saying Thailand wouldn’t be part of that subtree.

Then what are they? If they aren’t subtrees, what then?

As for the hornets thing, yeah. A Canadian or Australian Hornet in the GB tt is reasonable.

The what ?