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

The ugliest plane, ever.

prone position meteor. turns out, flying laying down isnt very effective!

Dunno, there was a German experimental plane that was built for testing prone position flying and the pilots apparently really enjoyed it

“Prone Pilot” Meteor, sadly unarmed iirc

Could also be EX, or bomber like B-21

But for EX, have to consider that it is replacing the F-15C, not E, even though it is effectively a heavily upgraded E. So still unsure of where that should go

Also, silent eagle was a prototype. Never really went anywhere

F/A-18E would go in F-14 lines, but F/A-18C would go in AV-8B because

  1. Super hornet replaced tomcat
  2. Hornet is operated by USMC like AV-8B and that is where we’ll get anything past a C from (C+, C+ late with AN/APG-79v4)

To be fair only things that fit there are Navy and Marine Corps aircraft now

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super hornet before f14D is crazy

Not crazy
They just holding supertomcat too much

Charles de Gaulle with a modernized Nimitz class probably

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Dunno, I am more surprised that they are apparently going for both the regular Hornet and the Super Hornet at the same time (while also seemingly skipping the F/A-18A)

Yeah, has anything like this ever happened before?

super-hornet before MiG31 is crazy

You are alive?

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Closest thing I can think of was the Gripen A and C, but they ended up being mostly the same ingame after a while

Super Hornet before Gnat and Hawk is even crazier

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Except Gaijin saying in CM Disclosure No.4 that the 77-1 doesn’t offer much of an improvement over the standard 77. So it’s not a comparable missile to the 120C5 😮‍💨 in their eyes.

So basically as a Flanker Cultists that I am…I have to wait to get the Ramjet 77M to have a competitive BVR Fox 3 😮‍💨

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Yeah, coming back (a little?) after some good break.

Testing naval costal from mycountry but damn 1x2 7.7mg against everybody that have 10 time this firepower is pure torture. Dunno who in Gaijin throught it was a good idea to give thoses 4 similar ship as starter.

And why we still miss the funny ones like the Sherman barge, or the ship with FL turret (amx13)

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I mean, if the India crowd gets their wishes fulfilled you’ll be able to get a Flanker with better Fox 3s in the British tree lmao

Or get the best flankers built by AVIC-SAC, you know, these things eventually will get missiles thats beyond R-77M and R-37M by a big margin.

I think the only time this will happen again is addition of the 3 F-35