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

The one where the Su-30 is facing the camera appears to be equipped with Kh-31’s. Could be either anti-ship or anti-radiation

The ones in this picture though look like the cruise missiles… K-100/KS-127?

Agreed. F-16AJ was a paper variant that was never built and lost the competition, it’s really not a comparison here.

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Hey i’m going to pay you to get me a 6 pack. I don’t give you enough and won’t give more. You don’t deliver me the 6 pack. Who’s 6 pack is it?

With that logic they never had anything and they were just scammed outa money.

Given the kind of discussions that are regularly had in this thread? No

IIRC, Manuever Enhancement and Decoupled Yaw

A premium Mirage 2000 for rank VIII would be perfect too, and probably sell like hotcake.

Didn’t buy anything in WT since years but i would day one for that.

They should have gotten 1 or 2 Hornets for what they paid though right?

Would consider getting that if it was on sale. But I doubt France will whilst the Mirage F1C-200 is still so good.

Italy is the greatest need I think

legally yes, if they paid for them aircraft then they should of been delivered

They promised to pay in full, they didn’t get anything because they didn’t pay in full.

USA and some other chain premium after premium and they are all good, we have only one, come one…

Italy should have one other too.

That is complete “what if” and is full paper, because RTAF never operated hornets. You said yourself, less than a quarter was paid for by Thailand and the vast majority was paid by the US, so they are US hornets by % paid for and where they ended up in reality

I’d imagine what are you gonna do with just a handful of hornets? Not enough for a squadron and maintenance cost seems not worth. Maybe they made a deal somewhere else to make up for it.

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Probably only jet on blue side(which always plays blue side) that can compete

Still. France could go a short while without any without issue. Italys best at the moment is the Over- BRed AMX

Yeah ASB is very boring rn.

They were only buying 8 to begin with

Yeah, and its mostly Typhoon vs Typhoon. I hope the SU-30 is good enough because symetrical combat is really boring

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It’s been 2 years (Apex Predators) we only have the F1C200 as a premium choice, stop it with that, in the meanwhile USA got handfull of them.

Getting another premium don’t stop Italy to get more too.

If we are talking about Sweden who is out of options then maybe, or perhaps Japan itself with the proposed Su-27 case can even be reasonable. For a subtree like Thailand however this would be the first case.