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

1991, is pre AMRAAM, the 9M was used though, the two MiG-21s shot down by F/A-18s in that conflict were with an AIM-9M and an AIM-7

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I know, I’ve always been the first to say that.

But from that to only focusing on top tier jets for over a year, both on trailers and updates themselves, there’s a… spectrum!

Su-30 gets R-77-1

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Almost as if air has been behind ground for years.
Trailers aren’t everything, let alone a quarter of the things added.
And this is less than 1/8th of the standard addition counts.

Y’all panicking over a short theme.
By all means be concerned, just don’t panic and assume the world’s on fire.

R-77-1 are on par with amraams, I dont see why they shouldnt

still hoping for my jeep

In terms of CAS air definitely is not behind ground lol

Would be nice, R-77s has literally the range of IR missiles

Indeed they were. The last leak list seems to be the correct one, F/A-18A with F/A-18C late being Tech Tree and F/A-18C Early being a premium.

Judging by the size and air intakes, it’s a Hornet S. I don’t know, maybe they were in a hurry, but the trailer is super bad. 4 techniques, of which 2 are not interesting, hornet is not 14.0 at all, and only one su30 will be meta.

No, I am “panicking” because over 2024 we got 24 Top Tier jets versus 7 Top Tier ground vehicles… and the trend only appears to continue in 2025.

Air went well beyond catching up long ago though. Now, in ground battles, aircraft long surpassed the capabilities of SAMs.

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My dear friend you are just using them incorrectly.

They are fantastic missiles.

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Aviation again

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There was no F/A-18E sadly

Yeah T-14 armata when

So the F-2, the most well known and long anticipated aircraft of Japan, known for agility and versatile weapons can’t feature in a teaser?

And the J-11B, an aircraft operated by a literal modern day superpower, perfecting avionics and engines of the Flanker (of which one was literally in this teaser) can’t be featured?

These two are even good for a match up of a second teaser, that I really hope they are working on with how mid and short this one was.
(Ideally in this teaser it’d be J-10B, but it’s not confirmed it’s coming while J-11B is)

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Because the Su-30SM will have 12 R-77s with PESA radar is the justification probably

Sure, roll out the M1TTB and Object 195, so the other 8 nations gets curbstomped! Ground update, wow

When they can gather all the required material to implement it in a near accurate state.

That would be way cooler than whatever was in this trailer