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

Hopefully J-10B and/or J-11B. It should be the easiest additions (mainly the J-11B which will bring Flanker with actually good BVR missiles and give China own up-powered Flanker (if Gaijin take WS-10 variant))

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J-10B please.

The J-10A is still pretty good, one of the better 13.7s, and still competitive enough at top tier from my experience, whereas the J-11A is awful, so between the two I’m hoping for J-11B this update

J-11B, J-10B, J-11BG, J-15, J-10C, J-16 is the order I think they’ll add them

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the missiles must follow with the J11B : PL8B, PL12A and possibly the PL15 if gaijin considers which is not too op for top tier gameplay. and I am also waiting for Chinese A-G missiles like the C-701, C-704 and C-802

where can I buy one? (just joking)

F18c being premium is a fucking travesty.

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Ideally, it is A+, since that was other option

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Sounds about right, just that the J-15 is probably worse than the J-11BG. They might add it as a squadron or premium vehicle like with the SU-33 as that is the aircraft it is based off.

The J-16 is effectively an SU-30 copy too so it should be in the strike line after the MKK imo.

There is also the J-15T which should be at the top of the Flanker tree, as a SU-33 copy with fully up to date weapons an AESA radar and some stealth coatings, it has the extra hardpoints that the SU-33 has so the possibility of 8 PL-15s plus 4 PL-10s would be pretty amazing

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eager to see them arrive to compete with the AGM 65 and KH

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Those look more like SLAM counterparts than Maverick counterparts

I can deal with a+ being premium. It makes some sense. But the definitive legacy hornet shouldnt be a premium imo. Especially since f18c is all sweden would get through finland.

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Yeah, they’re anti-ship cruise missiles, so would be something of a Harpoon equivalent

They launched from ships too

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Even if it’s a US premium, Finland should get it in the research tree, though at this point who knows :/

the J-16 is not a copy of the Su 30, the J-16 is taken from the J-11B which is an improvement and national production of the Su27sk so the J-16 compared to the Su30 does not have the same mechanical part not the same composite part etc etc but otherwise yes visually it looks very similar

Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have said copy, but it’s a development akin to the SU-30, and its role is more as a strike fighter, so I stand by the idea that it should follow the MKK in the strike fighter line after the JH-7A

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Maybe that Chinese one with LRASM or JASSM then, since they seem to be contemporaries

yes exactly the JH-7s are relegated to the 2nd line now in China replaced by the J-16s, they should be the last attack aircraft in the tree

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Nah, the LRASM has it beat in range and the LRASM is also stealth, the YJ-83 is from the late 90s too so not really contemporaries.

Harpoon is probably the closest equivalent though the YJ-83 should be a decent bit better overall. Somewhere in between the Harpoon and LRASM really

or some of the later developments of Harpoon but I’m not super familiar with those

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Its good but its current flight performance and Radar doesnt enough.

J10B will bring much better radar and flight performance to the table, plus it looks much better than fatty Flanker.