Major Update "Leviathans" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

Stay tuned to the news next week. More info to come.

I hope so even though I highly disagree with it being a premium, I’m still gonna get it lol

Anything on the IRIS-T SLM missile speed reports?

As its the weekend, there will generally be little news to provide on report updates I’m afraid.

The time to target’s report remains open: Community Bug Reporting System

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Hey, Smin.

About the MTB-460 that’s coming. Last I’d seen it had the British as operator; however, as far as I can find(from asking around and looking up), it only had Canadian crew and served the RCN. Are there plans to change the operator nation before it hits live?

Hey.

As far as im aware we have no reports on this or internal suggestions, so a report would be welcome with any evidence to clarify that. We can pass it for review for consideration then.

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Thx for your reply earlier, speaking of reports, are there reports on the Su-25TM (Su-39) missing air to ground weaponry? there are pictures showing the aircraft having access to more weaponry on some wing pylons, it is currently missing options for two Kh-29T/TE’s and two 8 Vikhr ATGM pylons.
Due to the aircraft’s nature primary and secondary sources are difficult to come by.

aditional Kh-29T/TE placement


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You can see here the inner most pylon is occupied by a Kh-58U and there is a Kh-29T/TE next to it, you can also see the Vikhr pods moved to the middle pylon and an R-73 on the outermost pylon.

Ingame screenshot to compare


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There are suggestions for KAB-500L, Kh-25MTP, R-27R/ER/R-77 and increased numbers of Kh-25, R-60 and R-73. But I cant find any suggestion reports for the Kh-29 family or additional Vikhirs.

that reminds me, are there any news on the R-27R/ER for the Su-39? the thing even flew with them and it is a real shame it isn’t able to take them in game as it severely hampers it’s ability to defend itself in air rb
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For the time being, its not something planned for the aircraft anytime soon.

Thx for your answers, i’ll go report the missing armaments, have a great one!

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Just give up on it. Su-39 is not fun to play and it isn’t going to be given things that make it more fun.

It’s just going to sit there with the basically pointless radar. Anyone who disagrees should be sentenced to using the tws gtmi mode for 300 matches.

I was so excited about it coming to the game, but now I just accept that it’s over and will never get better.

It will all be rejected because BR reasons.

Since Gaijin has already modeled the Humvee, what’s stopping them from adding the Avenger as well?

As a Japanese main who loves the Type 93, I would be happy for the US mains if they had such a fun vehicle as well.

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are there reports on the Su-25TM (Su-39)

I know I’ve dragged this out for more than a year but the SU-39 and SU-25TM are slightly different aircraft in which one evolved from the other, the SU-39 unlike the SU-25TM was upgraded with the SUO-39P fire control system for better integration of A2A missiles like the RVV-AEs and R-271s.

Documents of this has been posted by me multiple times on the SU-39 topic

They’re like the same aircraft but different, best to refer to them just as the SU-39 or SU-25TM separately when relevant and not SU-25TM (SU-39).

Speak for yourself, this thing would be totally fun with these armaments, especially sim.

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i’d trade an 11.7 br for 12.0 if it means i get two R-27R/ER’s and 4 R-73’s

2x R-27Rs wouldnt have much of an impact on BR

2x R-27ERs would have to be 12.0 at a bare minimum, and even that might be too low.

4x R-73s would probably be okay at 11.7 but 4x R-73s + 2x R-27Rs and that starts to push maybe needing to be 12.0+ and 4x R-73 + 2x R-27ER would easily be 12.3+

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i can’t see the thing going any higher than 12.0, jesus christ, yes, it’s an R27ER but it’s launched at ground level on a subsonic aircraft that, if it’s engaged in any dogfight, is slow enough to not even have the mach-meter show in the UI…

edit: why would it even be 12.0, the tomcats are 11.7 and 12.0 respectively, a 39 with it’s ER’s ain’t a menace for a tomcat

Its still a R-27ER. They have such speed that even firing from something slow like the Su-39 could still probably outrange a supersonic aircraft dropping Aim-7M in a BVR fight. Combine with the half decent radar the Su-39 does actually have and it would be very strong at 12.0. It would be like giving the A-10C 2x AMRAAMs.

Throw in any other buff ontop of that, like increasing its R-73 count from 2 to 4 to run alongside it and it starts looking on par to something like the Harrier Gr7 at 12.3 in terms of offensive capability.

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if it was to ever go above 12.0 it’d be with the R-77’s., the ER’s are still ER’s like you said, still not an ARH. yes it’d get a decent radar and a grand total of 2 ER’s but it’s still not something that should ever face the aircrafts it does in it’s current state. even juste the R-27R’s and 4x R-73 would be a lot better, it’s a one trick pony currently and these missile would make it a little less of that.

How would two ER’s and two more R-73’s mean this aircraft should be above an F14B/IRAF br wise, that just makes no sense, these missiles are the only thing that can make this aircraft fun, anyway, back on topic