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

Okay but how does that stop the French Clovis from being a pre-order premium? I’m sure other vehicles are planned in the future for Germany too but that doesn’t exclude Germany from getting a pre-order Clovis.

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French clovis is a premium it says in the blog

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Fixed my sentence, I meant pre-order.

Fair enough, mistakes happen

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All loadout reports are considered as suggestions.

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What are Gaijin’s thoughts on these past several updates having leak lists come out that correctly detail the majority of mechanics/vehicles beforehand?

A few years back those lists were usually nonsense, but these past several have been very accurate and quite early.

As always, we do not comment on “leaks” and speculation.

So yeah they do them internally on purpose and have a set corporate “neither confirm nor deny” ‘Glomar Response’ they are supposed to give when questioned on it, thats my take :)

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Both are premiums available this update at the same time.

We always aim to have a mix of store / GE premium balance, so some decisions are made based on that balance. Plus there is also an effort to avoid confusion when there are two similar vehicles available on the store for two different nations (no matter how clearly they are labelled).

Much like how the Harrier GR.1 was GE whilst the AV-8A was a pre order pack.

still hope any india vehicle

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F/A-18 blog will come only after the teaser.
Likely to be the highlight of the teaser.
(plz, Gaijin, show other vehicles in teaser as well, unlike the Tomcat update teaser)

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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.