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

The hornet is not as nearly as famous as the tomcat though, which tbf I felt it deserves a lot more

A reminder that is a long way off, so F18 probably should (at least one) land in the F14B tree, otherwise we will be looking at sth like a 3.0 BR gap at least, if not 4.0 or 5.0

Convince Pakistan to buy a bunch of eurofighters or J-10CE, then possibly India will assemble their first pantsir in less than 5 years

Will it have a laser rangefinder? I don’t see it mentioned in the dev blog, but in real life it has one.

EDIT: And does it have a stabaliser? That’s also mentioned on the brochure

EDIT 2: And a thermal imager? The FL20 on the Marder looks like it has one fitted

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60% of the teaser will likely be hornet, 30% will be split between the Su-30/J11B/F-2/whatever other top tier plane and 10% will be actually interesting to other non-air players.

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yea … but its been highly anticipated within the WT air fan base … sorta similar situation as was for the Tomcat. So Gaijin’s PR/teaser team will acknowledge that hype whilst planning the teaser.

*sigh * … yea

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Nah, they won’t, Pakistan might already be producing J10CE domestically, ever since Chengdu stopped/lowered their production. Also not like Pantsir did anything against the Israeli airforce in Syria. (Pantsir for Israel?)

There were also no other particularly interesting aircraft tin the Danger Zone update.

That isn’t true for this update, with the J-11 and SU-30SM and maybe others.

I’m hoping for an aerobatics themed trailer with the Blue Angels, Russian Knights, and Red Arrows.

@Smin1080p_WT is the Clovis stabilized? cause the FL-20 turret was capable of being stabilized (found the original brochure for the FL-20 turret so updated the pic)

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in this situation, I think it’s better to make 2 teaser video.

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Well if anything, I dont think Indian pantsirs are able to down J-10CEs considering Pakistan has a good amount of C-802 and LD-10 lying around, alongside with domestic guided munitions

Plus it gotta be able to drive without falling apart

Hi @Smin1080p_WT Since this 2025 there’s plans to upgrade the SPAAs, is there a chance we see this update an israeli one? currently its the worst nation for SPAAs, you have to bring a 9.7 one to toptier. It is lacking a big SPAA for a long long time already

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not that its required before Vickers Mk.4M and Vickers Mk.7/2
but they could start with the Arjun proto(s)
earlier proto with 105mm

later proto with 120mm

Yeah, Benelux ground.
I sure hope we get our unique stuff for once. Instead of easy C&P.

Like… where is the Dutch PZH2000NL?
Italy and Germany got theirs, yet the Netherlands does not.

Also, i hope their naval comes too!

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The answer regarding more modern top SPAAs was generally a longer term answer rather than one relating spesifcally to this major update.

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We need that Indian Sherman with PT-76 cannon

lol,
A teaser, then a trailer … like how movies or other game release do?

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It’d be funny if India only put Pantsir on their ships

Is there any guarantee that they’ll have a mobile land based version?

pantsir is not used for this IRL. It’s a SPAA used for defending targets from enemy missile/bombs. so they will buy others to defend planes.

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