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

Fair enough ^^.

Very happy with Rapier coming, but the claim I was told of the Russian stream stating a Thai tank was coming also perked my interest, I do hope its true and it is something that will be funny to see like the Scorpion ha.

Didn’t the stream also said they were thinking about a Commonwealth Hornet for Britain ?

So this F/A-18C MLU is either a long way off, or will be at the same BR as the current Finnish Hornet?

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Based on what the players talk about and maybe in the future I think was the main bit of it.

Still, a Thai tank is superior to any Hornet in the UK ;)

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Clearly Finnish Hornet MLU 1 which is essentially the same as the current US model will need to be the same BR as F15EX and super Hornet will still lacking those new weapons.

Kinda makes sense for that to come in an update or 2 if we are entering a dry spell for new aircraft

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No. They said no comment. Could it mean yes? Maybe. Could it mean no? Maybe.

From what I’ve seen, it’s more that they’ve heard the people asking, and it was more of a “Not now, but maybe later.”

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So again why skip the MLU 1 if you’re tonna go straigjt to the MLU 2? Why purposely add tge worse model and skip the MLU 1. The only reason i can see is because the Devs always planned for the MLU 1 to be skipped so the MLU 2 is more sought after again
Its a kick to the teeth and the answer you give is a contradicting statement. So again why do Finnish air players have to wait for the MLU 2 when the MLU 1 could be added and fix this whole mess. Additionally why must the Finnish F-18C be the same BR while being worse. Please actually answer this question and nor just say we’ve already adressed this issue because thats not an answer, its you dodging a question that many other Finnish air players want to know the actual answer to

If youre gonna insult me at least take the effort to actual do it yourself instead of lazily outsourcing it to a machine tbh

I’m curious what you all think about the AIM-120C (likely the C-5 variant that’s in the files).

This was datamined recently:

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Do you guys think this is necessary?

Do you think it’s coming soon (eg. this patch, in the summer patch, or later)?

I’m kind of on the fence about the 120C-5. While the R-77-1 is a nice upgrade over the R-77, does it really warrant a better AMRAAM? I don’t entirely believe that to be the case, personally.

If you thought that was an insult then my guy, you haven’t entered the real world yet lmao

Definitely a Summer thing

For some airframes, no, but others… maybe?

Like Tornado F3 Late could be given Aim-120C5s and moved back to 13.3/13.7 where it would then cause less of a compression issue in the downtiers whilst not being DOA in uptiers

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Ok bad-ss lmao

I say September maybe december

Nah. The difference between AIM-120 B and C is the same between R-77 and -1. Wouldn’t be too difficult to see it come for the Tonka and Tiffy next patch.

Just says since I’ve been called far worse even in rl but you don’t see me crying lol

This has been answered several times. I understand you may not agree with it, however spamming it over and over is not going to change the answer.

It was always planned for the F-18 (Pre MLU) to come and the later modernised variant later. These are two very different aircraft with meaningful differences between them.

This later version will have multiple improvements over the base F-18.

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Weird ask, but does anyone know of a forum made poll larger than this one?

Wondering if I set any new records