Major Update "Hornet Sting" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 4)

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Tornado GR.4 HMS
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Harrier GR.9 HMS (Identical system as expected)
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My eyesight for the T.10 shows the same helmets? im not too sure but its kind of hard to find close ups of the pilots
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yeah its the same as the others.

T.10 HMS get the bug reports ready haha

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If that is USS Colorado then that would be a WWII refit as it was not finished until after Pearl Harbor and would be the reason the Colorado missed the attack. It isn’t as significant as the major rebuilds of the other big five, but to the best of my knowledge none of them had finished being bulged by the time of the US entry into the war. However it would be fairly representative of a Colorado in wartime service as only West Virginia saw a major rebuild, completed late into the war, and Maryland did not carry 5”/38s until after the war had ended.

Idk if anyone else shares this value but i gotta be honest, the F18 at 14.0 but must broken on the dev or something to warrant it being a EFT equivalent like mach 1.2 on the deck with all 10 missiles. Otherwise it really feels like gaijin based the BR off need to give Finland a 14.0 as a bandaid solution to a much bigger probelm.

@quartas121 any thoughts?

It could lock but not lase. Also the A+ model received the ATFLIR.

Imo, they might actually be adding the AESA one. That’s the only reasonable justification for 14.0

Finland doesn’t have AESA so why would it be the same BR?

Nor are sub-trees needed for a vehicle to be added to a tree.

There is plenty of evidence to point to this.

That’s a good point. I think they might just bump it down though in dev server, hopefully

Like M1A1 AIM and F-14A IRIAF

While CF-188 has none of those ties to the UK that AIM and F-14 have to US

yes but the SG directly in singaporean service isn’t for the USA tree to claim. Now this may make you extra defensive but I need to add that Singapore is also a former British colony until 1965 so there would be the chance it went to the UK tree, especially as Singaporeans (just like all the other Cantonese provinces in the area) really don’t like China and japan because of the last century of history and it would be very tone deaf to add them to either of their trees.

Then it still fails to give sweden a 14.0 like Russia or China. Guess Sweden will get something after the F-2 which has been overdue for a while.

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They aren’t subtrees, so there is no reason for their vehicles to go to a tree that has nothing to do with those vehicles

Only other thing i could think of is BOL, gaijin may not give them BOL while the Finnish F18 has it. Which still isnt worth the increase imo. Radar means way more

I know. What I want for the F-15SG is a squadron specific event vehicle, like that one FJ-4

I think it would do more good in Japan as full RSAF than China or UK tbh though.

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There is a 0% chance of a Singaporean F-15 going to the British tree unless Singapore becomes a subtree of Britain for whatever reason

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Agreed. Maybe you guys will have to tough it out until 14.3 with Gripen NG

Eh, unless NG is added with new missiles it would be 14.0 then it fully depends on the model of NG, with or without IRST and with or without changed wing design.

Edit: removed tail

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Too many ifs, and given the track record i wouldn’t be suprised if we got an early NG model just so it would be limited and worse than the current 14.0’s cant wait for CAPTOR-M part 2

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If there is one worth that low of a BR, then itll hopefully get added summer

Man, those pictures make it hard to see the difference in tail length

More so meant the wing design my bad