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

The F117 will be so expensive to spawn

It doesn’t. No serial F-15E has ARM. Only some integration test ones

while thats good it has 2 bombs, which I think are the 500lb GBUs so uh not gonna be great for CAS or base bombing

Sure, but you probably don’t have to respawn again for the rest of the match

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No, 2x 2000lb

You probably can’t take a full base, but maybe 85%?

If we’re getting anything else today, it will almost certainly be the teaser, as its a bit late in the day for a new devblog.

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2000lb

its extremely odd that we did get a devblog today. On a monday okay but wednesday?

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right so it might be able to destroy one base at top tier, and is really slow, with no defensive weapons… yeah I think it will be very meh

Supposedly it could theoretically carry 2x Aim 9s in place of bombs

oh boy

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I didnt necessarily mean ARMs. They could be armed with other long range A2G munitions.

Just go check F-117 manual.

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According to an interview with a F-117 pilot it could use “anything in the inventory” but it was never actually fitted with AIM-9

It could though, supposedly

Check out this article, it references the interview in question. The pilot did misspeak so to say, stating that the F-117 was used to hunt Soviet AWACS. This was only a concept and never done in reality. The problem with this plan was lack of radar, not lack of sidewinder support. Assuming they’re correct about “all weapons in inventory”

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Not to mention there was a supposed gaijin dev on the Chinese side that debunked this though dont know the truth of it

I would say Marlborough and Iron Duke are the second best 6.7’s behind the Marat that could honestly be 7.0.

Whereas I would probably view Bretagne as one of the worst.

One base is at minimum 2500kg of bombs so you wont be killing bases with 4000lb

That is the main issue.

Nice Gaijin, biggest dreadnought navy the world has ever seen begs for more dreadnoughts and you choose to make them time-limited event vehicles.

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It’s a subsonic brick that will likely be bad in both and and ground RB.

The F-15E, Su-34, Gr.4 and 2000D RMV will likely have far more inpact on the game.