worse countermeasures
worse air to ground (mainly for sim, 6 guided bombs vs 10)
heavier (tandem cockpit config adding more drag ad weight)
worse engine (1000kgf less thrust)
worse cannon (subject to preference but the GAU-12 has tracers if thats your thing)
the one thing it does better is rear facing MAW system, but this is almost negated by having 3x LESS IR countermeasures, the one thing the harrier needs with its poorly modeled IR Signature
I would assume gaijin is still getting a lot of changes through. There are a lot of new model as well, so they might be spreading devs too thin.
A-7K is 11.0 with Mavs + TGP, but I think they mean remove the ATGMs, leave it only with LGBs so it has a lower BR. Even then it’d still be a little dicey.
I can understand the want though, I’m generally not a fan of above 10.7/11.0 so a lower BR harrier II would be nice as I quite like the Harriers in general, but not always their BRs.
itll stay at 11.7 in ground RB since thats where the 65G comes into play
i can see it dropping to 11.0 airRB and Sim too just due to how many things its got WORSE then the AV8B(NA)
The Devserver did get extended to there’s a good chance of it.
Oh I don’t blame them, dev server is always WIP after all. It just looks really funny.
Fair enough, I forgot about the A-7K. Probably forced it out of my memory because of all the pain I went through trying to stock grind it against mig-29s and F-16s.
I don’t blame them either, and a good cas aircraft for the British 10.7 would also be really nice. With LGBs only it 10.7 wouldn’t be too outlandish (see A-6E), but with thermal pod and 65D/65G it should be at least 11.7 imo.
I’m glad I spaded my Kurnass 2000 when I did. I was saving the GR.4 to spade when something came for the UK that I wanted but I guess I’ll just spade it now because I’m not playing it when it will always see a Hornet.
Come to think of it I’ll spade my GR.7 too, that being the same BR as a Hornet is just wrong. Sure it has 9M’s but it also has a broken FM, broken BOL flares and no ability to flare a 9B with it’s broken heat sig. Nothing about the GR.7 justifies it being the same BR as a Hornet.
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Everyone who saw the VT5 having 7.1s had a stroke, even though we know it was just a placeholder ZTZ96A stat copy, we all had a stroke still
Doesnt the MiG-29 have HMD with the R-27ER? Im not justifying the F/A-18 being 12.3 I just remember it having HMD and being really good at 12.7 the last time I played it
Luckily I spaded all of them. JH-7A as well, it used to be decent in ARB with that turn time and okay IR missiles. But like a hornet can carry 2+6 or 4+2 with superior FM and a better cannon felt silly. Even not in a downtier half the enemies a F/A-18A faces are CAS aircrafts that takes twice the time to turn.
Kurnass was so good before the br changes now its the same br as f16a wtf gaijin!
F/A-18A at 12.3 faces
JH-7A, GR.7, GR.4, Kurnass 2000: CAS aircrafts that has no FM and IR missiles only
F-4EJ KAI: dominates the FM with more flares
MiG-21 BISON: probably the plane with the best odds against F/A-18A, forcing an R-73 launch post-merge, otherwise screwed in sustained turns
F-20A: better in speed, armaments, cannons and avionics
Mirage2KCS-4: probably the only other that has some odds against a hornet
and when we look at what it faces in a downtier to 11.3 its just sad, we need decompression to 15.0 before update drops or the game is gonna die real quick
aw man
Again? Now thats weird
it can face F-4Es in mixed battles
wait till you realize what it will face in a downtier
the game refuse to go next
it knows
A-10a is at 10.3 grb with agm-65b, I think it has thermals as well? Can’t really remember and the servers buggered so can’t check.
Not saying it should be 10.7, but was worth an ask