Rafale M was a requested French Naval aircraft by many. There is every reason to add it, as its an option for those that wish to fly it: Dassault Rafale M F.3R - The Meteor of the French Marine
We have been clear that Anti-Ship missiles are a secondary addition and not a primary focus. There was no promise or expectation set that new anti-ship missiles would be coming every major update.
Agree, it looks cool and that’s enough. It’s also a good opportunity to add a F.1 above it once the Rafales go up in BR
Hello Smin. With introduction of 12.7 batle rating - both m1a1 hc and hstv-l was raised to 12.0. is it planned to move them to rank 8, or move m1a2 to rank 7?
Have they made any new statements that the SHars wont be getting SEagles?
whatever they’ve said, they don’t have them right now when they should have them
A US F/A-18D is also something that’s been requested by many. But how come it’s denied because “The US already have enough Hornets” but then France can get another Rafale which has already been dominating for nearly a year?
It’s not even a matter of making a whole new model it’s already there for Japan all it needs is a new skin. It would be a good option for people that prefer the twin-seat Hornets especially since it can be foldered with the C so that players can just skip it if they don’t want it.
Not with this major currently.
These are two entirely unrelated points.
The F/A-18D is a new unique variant to the game. For the time being its coming to Japan since its used operationally by Malaysia, who exclusively operate the D version.
The US tree has 3 F/A-18 variants before this update and is about to receive a 4th in the form of the F/A-18E. Currently they do not have a need for this aircraft and are already receiving their own new, unique Hornet this major.
This is only the second Rafale for the French tree and the main Naval carrier born version.
Will we ever see it added to the US in the future? We have already seen this exact thing with the F-16D which we have still yet to see be added to the US after 2 years of it being in the game.
I fear we will see other twin-seats for the US suffer the same fate just because “the US has enough -blank-”.
I thought people hated C&P slop lol
Nothing to currently announce on that. But the feedback on the desires by some to see an example have been passed.
I don’t care about the D as the Fox-3 Hornets ingame are extremely mid at the very best, but this is an extremely weak cop-out as the US is/was the main operator of the Hornet series.
@Smin1080p_WT Could the Swedish RB04 anti-ship missile arrive for Sweden soon? A bunch of nations have gotten new anti-ship capabilities recently and I think it’s a shame the RB04 is being left out since it was so iconic for the Viggen/Lansen IRL… The Norwegian F16’s Penguin is pretty underwhelming if that’s supposed to represent the Swedish anti-ship capabilities in game for the foreseeable future.
They have 4 examples currently and the best variant in the game (E) of the type in their tree. There isn’t a cop out here. Simply the Malaysian one will be unique to them for the time being, since its a type exclusively used by them (they don’t operate any other variants).
Please feel free to make a suggestion, but its not something planned for this update.
It’s not a cop-out you’re getting you own E while Malaysia is getting their D, as Smin already said you had 3 Hornets over the past year along with many variants of the F-15 too.
So no it’s not a cop-out but rather a case of cope
Are new AI carriers planned? USS Forrestal predates the Super Hornet or Harriers entered service after Ark Royal retired.
Not even counting the Rafale M
I barely even play the US tree anymore lol.
I’m just annoyed that yet again Gaijin has skipped over the main owner/operator country while introducing a vehicle variant to another nation. After all, when Gaijin does this I have zero hope that they will get it into the main nation in any timely fashion. They are just getting around to adding the TOR to the USSR tree now, and it came to the Chinese tree in 2022.
Malaysia is getting their what now?
Malaysia has been D-less for a while.