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

I’d rather get more beam-riding missiles, but early SARH is also fun

I’m glad I live to see the day the F-2 ends up on a leak list

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Also yes with better sam’s comes better missiles

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Precisely.

It’s very simple: if most SAMs have a 10km range, and a plane’s weapons have a 15+km effective range… there’s objectively nothing that can be done as long as the pilot has more than 2 braincells and launches their missiles before getting into SAM range, which is what most do.

There is no “cope”, there is no “skill issue”. It is only an objective fact, one that even Gaijin finally acknowledged which is why they are now working on more capable SAM systems.

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It’s been too long

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man next update really is going to be rat hunting season isnt it

I dunno man but I do believe that opportunistic shots are a thing and that no tard stays out of AA range to not guarantee a kill.
And yes, some AA is worse than the other but for spotting it and tracking it a conventient cheat exists ( it’s called T-6-1, look it up, I personally believe it should be a silent command and have lower cooldown)

@Smin1080p_WT Second devblog today?

Good; you spot a plane, you track it, you fire a missile…

And since your missiles have a 10km maximum range and the plane’s missiles have an effective range well beyond 10 km, watch as your missiles explode before getting even close to the plane.

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an argument could be made for spaas that use tracking radars that they can shoot down munitions. if gaijin rewarded doing so with a small amount of rp and sl to actually motivate aa players to keep the rest of the team safe it could be somewhat if a fix especially with the ammo crates they get

Inb4 people will cope even if 50 km range SPAA exists vs 10km range weapons.
Trust me, you’ll be among them

“(Might be delayed)” 😅

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I wonder if they will have super and legacy hornet in same one

Good news is, as their latest CM post stated, that they will be giving rewards to take down plane munitions!

This whataboutism and hostility is so unnecessary that I don’t even know what to reply.

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Travel time of said weapon? Half a decade, ever thought MOVING around into cover is a thing?

That’ll probably be after the trailer anyways, but I doubt it, they didn’t include the F-15I with the F-15E and those are basically the same

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If the CAS was stupid enough to enter within the 8 or km range of an ADATS for example. Then yes they deserve to die, but it’s extremely easy to stay out of that range

they did? sick

So that’s how SAMs are suppossed to counter CAS? By, uh… taking cover and still be unable to do anything because their missiles STILL can’t physically reach the planes?

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Unless its a KH-38, in which case it’s about 10 seconds

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