Wat?
Besides that the Rafale M would literally be a Bugatti in War Thunder, the Rafale M has the worst flight performance out of all production Airframes, so yea…
They could add the Rafale M LF.1 as its quite unique but I don’t see a reason to add any other Rafale M.
The F/A-18E will have 12x AIM-120B/C and 2x AIM-9M/X right?
Unless everyone is getting better IR Missiles this update NO
Yes it cold mount them
Should have that missile count, but likely 120B/9M and not 120C/9X
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missile count correct
Don’t care personally, it’s not that worst i think, the FM would still be great for top tier, plus add some cool gameplay (carriers ops)
I honestly hope we got the 3 Rafale airframe ingame.
i wonder what’s f18e apg79 azimuth
Thats why I specificed AIM-120B/C and AIM-9M/X as I know AIM-9X arent coming but it is part of the aircrafts kit in the future
Single-seat F/A-18E Early (Block I) to USN fighter aircraft line after F-14 Tomcat (F-14A, F-14B & F-14D).
F/A-18E (Block III) before F-35C (Block 3F) ?
F-35B early (Block 2B) after twin-seat legacy hornet ?
New F-16C with AN/APG-83 SABR AESA and F-35A (early) (Block 3i)
Might be F-15E with AN/APG-82(V)1 AESA equipments like F-15EX, except engine and payload
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If they give carriers more purpose I could see it becoming relevant
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I think both the 12x AIM-120 of the F/A-18E and 10x AIM-120 of the F/A-18C will give them an interesting advantage then as the only other jet with that volume of missiles is the Su-27SM
tactical advantage of not being able to break mach 1
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Sub hornets
They will be nicely mid 13.7 and 14.0 aircraft for the 18C and 18E respectively.
The 18E will likely be outperformed at bvr by the 15E/15I/EFT while doing slightly better than the Rafale at longer ranges.
While at close range it will be dunked on by the EFT/Rafale, but will probably do better than the 15E/I.
Source? I havent seen anything official about that from the USN
Yeah, it can break Mach as sea level just fine, it doesn’t go much faster, but you’ll do 1.1 - 1.2 Mach with a decent missile load for sure.
And at higher altitudes it can definitely break Mach, though the climb will be a bit slower, and it won’t hit the same high speeds as other aircraft, you’ll likely still do 1.5 with a full load
Well for the maps we have currently I rarely even go Mach 1.5 in the F-15E at altitude because of how small they are so I don’t see that as an issue and Mach 1.1 to 1.2 on the deck won’t be that bad. I’mma go sift through any DoD I can get my hands on about the F/A-18C and F/A-18E though I would assume that second one would be harder to access.
yeah, it won’t be able to do the F-15E/Typhoon level of BVR, but that isn’t my playstyle anyway, I rarely go above Mach 1.2 anyways, mostly if I’m chasing someone down, so as far as I can tell, the F/A-18 will fit my playstyle a lot better than the F-15s do, I’ve never really enjoyed flying them much, whereas the F/A-18 is still pretty nimble at transonic speeds, can pull more AoA, and likely out dogfight an F-15.
People just hate on it because it isn’t amazing at the high-flying missile slinging that is considered the meta.
An honestly 10 AMRAAMs it too much, id’ likely take 6, maybe 8, plus the 2 Sidewinders anyway for some improved flight performance
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Isn’t F-15 good at low speed too?