dont worry a clean super hornet has an RCS of 0.1 iirc which the MiG-25PD (has enlarged mig23ml radar) can detect as far as 30 ish km
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Finland is out bet as they used the F-18 name
That is clean and front aspect only, so realistically there is no point adding any stealth effect to it at all
There is 0 need for the Swiss F-18 as Germany now has the eurofighter
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There is, and very much so do you still want it added. When you’re getting low on missiles and are almost clean, that means that you’re very close to your enemy targets after having slinged some missiles in BVR. At that point your low RCS will be an advantage in chaffing/notching missiles at closer ranges. Once you are empty of missiles and need to return back to base, you ideally want to be low RCS and can’t be detected to threats that still have their missiles and can kill you.
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Diversity always trumps needs m8
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Let them at least dream about it.
Weapon pylons add to RCS, that very low RCS is also front aspect only, maneuvering increases it quite a bit, there is also the fact that even best case it’s still a 30km detection, so with all of that combined the effect is going to be so small in real terms that it’s not going to matter
Eurofighter is the second best plane in game, sharing this place with the F-15E, there’s no more reason to add the F/A-18 to the German tech tree.
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Add it anyway. just to watch the world burn.
I mean, it would be nice to get a CAS platform, capable of defending itself and with FnF missiles
add F-22 to US anyways
why not first?
eventually, just wait a little dude
Eventually, yes.
Radar isn’t that great as of now
Rafale C F3 is simply better.
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But when you’re manuevering, the side aspect would make it “notching” and rear aspect would make it harder to lock onto in the first place due to lower velocity differences. Front aspect is what you want to lower the most.
The difference could be that someone focuses on the bigger F-15/F-14 at 30km instead of you at 30km just because you’re slightly smaller. People will shoot at what they can get.
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if its superhornet, its gonna go in the naval line
Yes, Germany’s CAS capabilities is really not that good but it’s not reason to add the F/A-18 to the German tech tree as a fighter, maybe a proper striker aircraft. But I can’t do much as a player, it will come one way or another, I’m just opposite to this addition.