No yesterday
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Sufa when?
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Can be carried by MiG-27K, Su-24M, Su-30MK i believe. If those are specific for the 59MK idk.
What’s it’s block number then?
Will the devs come back and define those things on all the other planes missing such details?
Calling them “early” and “late” is too cheap of a trick to be honest, it would be extremely nice if such a thing was implemented.
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IIRC Early and Late isn’t necessarily a distinction of how upgraded the different version are, it’s more a distinction between when you can get them in the progression down the tech tree in the game.
So what time frame is the 18C late?
You may say that but there isn’t exactly a “late” variant of most of those planes in most trees.
Examples like that would be the A-4E early, or the F-4F early ( the tech tree one defo isn’t a late one) and so on and so on. The “late” counterparts don’t exactly exist to be honest.
For most of those planes the biggest distinction would be what ordnance they carry, airframe upgrades are a lot less relevant.
Kinda like how a late Marine 18Cs have AESA radar?
Well, I don’t know about the F-18 but for example a Block 53 Phantom would differ from the F-4E block 48 in it’s radar ( hugely upgraded software and operation wise) and would have MASSIVELY better available weaponry ( AIM-9L/M and Pave Tack on block 53 vs 9J/P3/P4 with Pave Spike on block 48).
Another example would be let’s say A-4E early. In it’s specific block number or year it was only limited to AIM-9Bs ( which we’re still missing on two pylons) vs a later year with up to four AIM-9Ds and AGM-65s on wing pylons.
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Well the F/A-18C Early is from 1989-1991 so shouldn’t it receive AIM-9M?
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Would be useless against air targets, except helicopters maybe.
I don’t understand what you mean?
Mid war the USMC upgraded their 18Cs with AESA radars. Either way Gaijin’s naming scheme is showing issues. It is too ambiguous for Gaijin to be association dates with and just leaves the community confused.
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What I mean is they should at the very least specify the year or block and adjust weaponry accordingly.
Calling things “early” or “late” is a purely artificial thing to only fill out the most necessary weapons kits and call it a day. All that while the retroactive additions to make things historical are dumpstered and never looked back at.
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Which war?
AN/APG-79v4 started to be installed in like 2023
To add on to this, what they call “QoL updates” is nothing but a facade, every older vehicle gets continuously powercrept and giving those vehicles some love never hurts.
Like, sure they’re adding new weapons to Stukas for example ( which is great) but doing that in one fell swoop every now and then would really work wonders for the game.
That is just repeating what you said before, it isn’t an answer to my initial comment on it likely not being a naming for upgrades/ordinance/year/etc and instead an indication of when you are able to unlock them in you progression while playing.
Upgrades began 2020. I guess it falls technically late are if we are being specific but it was middle of an ongoing conflict.