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

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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China’s CAS is so bad that I thought I would see the Su-30MK2 in this update.

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Considering F-18E is a chronic sidegrade at best, could be.
Either way I’m omitting F-18E initially cause it’d be a rather lackluster addition [prediction].
Su-30SM, FCK1, F-18C, even F-18A, Mig-29M/35, T-50, F-2, and a number of others are all higher priority than F-18E.

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Here is to hoping…

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I would assume both france and the UK would get a CTA-40 carrier at the same time as it was a co-developed weapon but considering how gaijin seems to add a single top light tank a patch i can see it only going to one nation

Considering the strong binding between China and Russia in the game, perhaps Gaijin wants to make China Russia’s air bodyguard in the game.

I just hope we see ASM-2 on it. Maybe sniper pod too with L-JDAMS

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I do it all the time, which is why I tend to have few more guaranteed kills.
Will it kill me? 90% of the time, no, even if im just in an A-10C at 5km alt cuz AA players just behave like crap. The other 10% slap me on the wrist but why should I cope about it?

Truely a wet dream :hopium:

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