Another foreign leo will be sooner or later a squadron vehicle for germany considering the leaked polish tree, which if it comes would probably hide the leo2pl from the german tree
F-15E and EFT will still out bvr it, especially when they fix up the EFT radar a bit.
True, but the plane is also around 23% heavier when empty, while the increase in thrust is less than that % wise iirc.
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How come so? F-18 would have 4 more 120s, in which way would F-15E be better?
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Thank God.
What were they thinking?
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Not necesarily.
There is cases of the same vehicle being in multiple trees. Plus poland has another slightly upgraded version which for in game is exactly the same which would takebthe Spot
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The F/A-18E is kind of slow compared to the F-15E, both in top speed and acceleration. (better engines don’t compensate for the weight increase between the 18C and 18E.
I could be having the wrong hornet, but especially at low altitude the Hornet really wouldn’t be much faster than Mach 1 with a full missile load
So yes you have more missiles, but the 18E will take longer to climb to altitude than the F-15E and will have a considerably lower speed/acceleration when getting there, the latter 2 meaning that the airframe will give the missiles a lot less energy from launch.
Like smin said, the C&P ones
they just simply ignored light vehicles, for every TT, because most of them are not top br vehicles.
F-18 is too slow, a experienced player can easily avoid a AIM-120 in 10+ km, but when a F-15 coming in 10000m, 2 mach, things become different.
Harrier has 4 AIM-120, while J-8F has 2 PL-12, in same br, but J-8’s FM make it more active
if the rapier is added I hope to god its not the only thing… maybe a cheaky ifv
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probably we have the answers later this year or early 2026 (remembering that gaijin says this year will be only sub trees) but it’s pretty much probably the Polish Leo 2 keeps in the german tree and there’s where my worries go to
It was good enough/hitting directly on target and not much of an issue in the time of development. And ofc, cost. IIRC it was a lot cheaper then other systems at the time.
It seems we aren’t going to see any new sub trees this update.
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so it didn’t have proxy fuse in early version? it’s crazy
F-15E would be better by not being outranged by everyone in bvr unlike f18 which will barely break mach 1 with 14 missiles
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Yeah, so depending on which missiles they give tracked rapier, those decrying osa which has the best proxy fuse system for the UK currently might be eating their words, lol.
f18e also has a lower TWR (0.93 vs 0.96 on f18c)
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Not every nation needs to get everything. Chinese and Swedish tree still don’t have a navy, for example.
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it’s a tiny difference, not a big problem, and I remember F-18E’s engine will be much better in high altituade, it may fill and go beyond the gap
China uses H-6, basically TU-16, but upgraded many times during decades, now used as long range missile launcher. France has Mirage IV, similar to TU-22.
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It’ll still be pretty damn slow in terms of acceleration and top speed compared to it’s competition. That 23-26% weight increase from the 18C to the 18E is really going to hurt it in game.
It’ll be a missile bus without any of the redeeming qualities that missile buses usually have.
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