Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

Gaijin might change radar for F-15C MSIP II after decompress battle rating higher 13.7 some day ?

Buff both F-15C MSIP II and F-15E add AIM-120C & AIM-120C-5 ?

Personally I do not like unrealistic loadouts.
I’ve not played the MiG-29 9.12 since spading them.
R-27ER does not belong in it while it lacks R-73.

Hawk 200 is not in British service so Gaijin would have to take weigh how to add if it will be added at all.

Harrier never used any skyflashes as far as I’m aware. I did not like Skyflash on Gripen but it is what it is.
If a vehicle could use the given armarement but did not I’d sau a compromise for the sake of balance reasonable but giving fantasy loadouts is more than pushing it in my opinion.

Yeah, which is why WR as a metric for vehicle balancing at top tier is useless.

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Maybe Aim-120Cs, but was thinking more like better radar and BOL

I think maybe not so much of air cause sample size, but ground I think RB is less good of volumetric than AB, cause there are more direct fights, less side shooting, it’s just more obvious representation of fire power and protection. Air arcade I never play except when I use 5K contracts.

What?

That has never stopped Gaijin before. Falcon and Challenger Marksman were only Prototypes for example

All BAE Hawks (except those used by Finland) have an easy placement on our tree

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BAE Hawk T.1A: The Trustworthy Teacher
BAE Hawk 100 (early): Britain's Bird of Prey (i)
BAE Hawk 100 (late): Britain's Bird of Prey (ii)
BAE Hawk 103: The Desert Hawk - #4 by OnlyrushB2905
Hawk 200 Night Attack: Bravo six, going dark
British Aerospace Hawk 200: The Hawk Becomes The Hunter
British Aerospace Hawk 203: The Desert Hawk goes Hunting

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I mean same could be said about Chinese stuff, like PL12 was considered AIM120C equivalent but just so they could be added now they had to be nerfed. I think they should just add another later batch F15C which has AIM120C and ESA radar.

Thats not stopped gaijin in the past, we could easily see 3 variant based purely off of the British Aerospace prototypes, these being

Hawk 200 (early)

Earliest variant with integrated ADEN 25s in the nose, but no wingtip pylons

Hawk 200 (late)

a later/ production variant, sacrificing the internal cannons for wingtip pylons

Hawk 200 Night Attack

A hawk 200 Early equipped with a Marconi FLIR system instead of the radar

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Personally I would argue that the early could be limited to Sidewinder/Skyflash and get a BR of around 11.0, whilst the late could receive ASRAAM and AMRAAM at around 13.7 or so

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The SHAR comment was directly due to Gripen not having it IRL, as a “well this could have been done” for parity weapons etc.

As for “UK didnt use it” on Hawk 200, well, the UK makes them, and theres plenty of other vehicles the UK makes for export that are in the UK tree. Vickers mbts for example. Could just go with an Omani or the proposed Saudi 1 (given Saudi planes have been added to the UK before, EG the Lightning F53)

That was in regard to them being the best before F-15 or AMRAAM were part of the game.
France and Britain do get attention but it is hard to match any new addition one for one because there are not enough steps in capacity or not enough vehicles.

Yeah, but still, even with F15 they are quite good except they can’t just spam, meaning u don’t get a free kill until u reach 50/50 dogfights.
I now do like a 20km spam of PL12 before I even really see anyone.

Agreed. But why is it always minor nations playing catch-up and not the other way round.

Would it be the end of the world if Britain, Italy, France, Germany, China and Sweden had the strongest aircraft in game for an update or 2?

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which one, just “C”? C-7? C-3?

The Hawks could be very capable and diverse in the UK TT.

T.1A would be a good alternative to the Alpha Jets, Gaijin could omit the 9L’s and equip it only with it’s A-G weapons and place it around 9.0

Hawk 100 Early could be around 10.7 and be equipped with 9L’s, would have the same A-G weapons as the T.1A.

Hawk 100 Late could be foldered with the 100 Early can and have 9L’s but the extended A-G weapons options with Brimstones and ALARM. Could be 10.7 in Air battles and 11.3+ in ground.

Hawk 103 could be an event/premium aircraft, would basically be a Hawk 100 Early.

Hawk 200’s could either come to 13.0 with AMRAAM’s/13.3+ with ASRAAM’s, or could be split as an Early and Late versions, Late would be with AMRAAM’s and in the future ASRAAM’s but the Early version could come with Skyflash and sidewinders and be placed around 11.7/12.0

Hawk 203 could be an event/premium vehicle alongside the Hawk 103.

Overall there’s many versions of the Hawk that could come for the UK TT which could each be unique and useful in-game

looks very similar to a F5

Id have the T.1A in a Red Arrow Livery as a premium and have the gnat as the TT version.

Id also prefer the Hawk 200 more like 11.3 with 9Ls and skyflash than at max BR with strong missiles. Would be a really fun aircraft to have at that BR

but yes, a LOT of potential options for our tree

We could have both? Would love to get the Gnat in-game and also a Red Arrow T.1A would probably sell really well as a premium.

Yeah that’s where it could be split into an Early and Late version. Early with Skyflash and 9L and Late with AMRAAM and ASRAAM. An early Hawk 200 might be better at 11.3 instead of 11.7/12.0, just wasn’t sure whether it had 9L or 9M.

It would be difficult to let countries play catch up when they were in many instances leading developement.

I do agree of course that in those cases implementations should be solid.

F-5 was out of this world when it was newly added while Mirage F.1 was trash for a long time.
F.1 was still playable especially the F.1CT because it had stock Magic 2 which were busted at the time but the flight characteristics were a joke.

Mirage 2000 was suffering for a while in that department after MiG-29 9.12 and F-16 were introduced.

At least France was a bit more active in developement than Britain and therefore is a little easier to balance. God knows why we got a Benelux tree crammed in there.

It would be cool if Eurofighter and Rafale got to slap a bit before further changes to the meta are made but we will just have to see about that.
Especially with the pacing in the next few patches.

China is in a difficult position because it went from largely obsolete to rather modern aircraft in a very short amount of time. The late Chinese Flankers are something to look forward to.
Personally I hope MiG-29 9.12 and SU-27/J-11 get revisited. J-11A would profit from a downtier by 0.3 but it is a matter of perspective.

9M was around when the Hawk 200 first took flight, but 9L would be a smarter option, considering its Subsonic and I would rather not have it bumped to 11.7 and face F-14s in it

Based upon Harrier Gr7, would probably end up more like 12.0/12.3 if it had Aim-9Ms for “reasons”