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

Mica (I think)

Mica. ( Aka the pitbull, next target for it is baby little F-18s it needs to maul)

hi reaper :D

While mica can do cool stuff yet it still lacking lot of range (hope it get buff soon)

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Anything related to a letter M, like AIM-9M. It is a standard ICAO alphabet.

U missed the meme but okay.

What effective range does it have?

MICA EM have 80km of range IRL.
70km for the MICA IR.

+20% (or 40%) for the NG variants of both that are in development.

But i understand the “balance” by Gaijin.

I mean ingame. Everyone talks about the ingame range like it’s a huge deal and I’m wondering why it may be.

Is it like 5km or something?

I can already see the posts “TVC and R73 is way to OP” “Gaijin NEVER should have added TVC this early” ext ext XD

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Ingame on the stat card it’s 50km afaik, but pass 15km it’s hard to hit.

It’s the only fox3 in the game with an hard lock made by Gaijin btw, the missile self explode pass 40 or 50km

Usual average range ingame for MICA are around 10km

That’s the pitbull mauls baby range. Whole range is too little, number doesn’t matter.

You mean currently if that it around 12-15km the longest range i got with mica is around 14.5 km flying at 4000m speed of mach 1.1

The F/A-18C with 9Ms will get dunked on anyway

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Oh absolutely.
The eurocanards will stall it out like crazy if they play it right anyway.

Damn you got 14? I got 10km at 5km alt at best lol.

No link for english dev stream yet?

Probably, so why let F-18A get dunked on too?

Surely it would be nicer to have at least one competitive hornet, sat outside the top tier bracket?

The only way you get that is by forgoing 9M’s.

1 frame per fuel consumption second

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Probably luck but my overall kill range with mica is around 7-11km