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

Doesn‘t surprise me. There was a Swiss Air Force F-5E for Germany on the last leak list. Did not happen.
No Swiss Air Force F-18C for Germany in this update

But hey, no worries, there is a Finnish F-18C which can be rebadged, there is an Leopard 2A4 in swedish tech tree, there is Bill in Swiss Army markings and there is a F-5E which i have in Swiss Air Force markings. I can wait until GJ throws in the real alpine hornet with super hornet cockpit 😉

I like the idea of bad missile aa.

It means funni memes in the ~8.0 ground bracket.

Gimme blowpipe

going 3 years on merks

Yeah thats why I am wondering if anyone knows any visual clues which help pin down what version it is, EG if it doesnt have a thermal optic system it shouldnt get the mk2 missiles iirc?

I dont know the rapier enough to really say visually on it.

If it is just the mk1 missile, i dont even mind the smoke ploom if its 9.0, good to give planes some warning.

There’s a reason no other missile on the planet uses grid find outside of the 77/77-1)))

Would be nice if we could get both an early one and a late one

Rover armed with a Javelin LML is still my hope at some point.

can you name it?

@DevilO6 might know

Blowpipe superior, can shout “GET BLOWN” at people in all chat.

R77s just not enough to compete, like give us some r27ea

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Javelin: :D

Or

Javelin: D:

Haha

Yeah, the drag caused by the fins in exchange for better AOA was found to not be worth the trade off in range performance by everyone except the Russians until later on.

Little correction to that they paid a fraction of the required cost their economy collapsed while the aircraft were under production. US then picks up the rest of the the check (about 76%) and hands them over to the Marines.

Edit: corrected my math.

thing is that the drag isnt n e a r l y as bad at high speeds as gaijin as made them to be

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Technically the only aircraft to us the AN/AAS-38 at all during the Gulf War was the F/A-18D in a night attack squadron

No way to tell.

Blowpipe superior cuz i can manually aim it at my ground teamates in the starting scrum

What about
Javelin :^)