All Harriers still have an extremely sooty exhaust and the SHars all still have placeholder HUDs. If the HUDs cant be fixed soon, should replace them with the F3s HUD. At least give us the symbology we are meant to have
and thats not even mentioning issues like the Heat Sigs or BOL
Sooty exhaust, incredibly easy to lock even from the vertical, dodgy hud, missing ordnance at least on gr7, can’t flare most threats without 90% of your flares, dodgy chaff, placeholder maws…
@Smin1080p_WT a lighter question, have the devs considered bumping the 9.7 first gen harriers down 0.3 in GRB to 9.3? I do really like the Harriers, but neither the US or the UK trees have a TT ground vehicle at 9.7 (Only the Rooikat 105 for the UK, and the XM8 for the US, both of which are unavailable for console, and not much easier to get on PC), and the incoming AV-8S only has the Type-16 to pair with.
Would also have the side effect of insulating against the 10.7 black hole of premiums and decompressed MBTs which can be a bit of a pain in a 9.3 tank. One might discribe it as not fun.
Also weaponry wise it’s all dumb, unlike similar subsonic platforms at 9.3 (Bucc S.2, A-4E etc)
Legacy Hornet is in no way comparable to Su-30. Maybe if you dropped Super Hornets but even that would be transonic at best. F/A-18C and MiG-29K is a much better and fair comparison