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

which itself is a sidegrade to the F2A. All 3 (F16CM,F16I and F2A should be 13.7 due to lack of missiles, a radar upgrade is nice but its still just a counterpart to the JAS39C)

In a game so compressed, i dont see how the F16CM, F16I AND F2A are all different BRs

F2A - 4AAM4 / 4AAM3, Great AESA, NO HMD, NO MAW, But best low speed performance
F16I - Up too 6 Aim120C-5, Mech scan radar, MAW and HMD, But worse dogfight performance due to CAS Focus
F16CM POBIT - 6aim120D (aim120C-5, worse aim120A (god this is getting annoying)), AESA, HMD, MAW but costs missile rails, better top speed but middle ground dogfight performance (for F16s)

Clearly all just sidegrades of each other, yet all with different BRs. Gaijin needs to re-evaluate what theyre using to balance because in no way is the F16CM now equal to anything else at 14.3, and even looses to the 13.7 F2A in many ways

The entire incident led to the development of the JSDF. You know, an enemy fighter (MiG-25P) entered Japanese airspace. Despite detecting it, Japanese fighters and radars were unable to detect it once the MiG was over the Japanese islands. The enemy aircraft then landed in Japan. It was shocking how the JASDF and JGSDF were unable to act in a crisis. This was followed by a major modernization, including the purchase of new radars, air control aircraft, new fighters (F-15s), and so on. The MiG-25 itself was just an ordinary, clunky fighter, not a superfighter (the Japanese accidentally damaged its radar).

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I wouldn’t call it a downgrade to the F-16I. The F-16I radar is truely garbage for 14.0-14.7 and no amount of CMs and MAW can compensate for that.

There was a rumor (unconfirmed) or more of a joke that the MIG-25 radar fried rabbits that were on the runway.

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oh so it was less the technology but more the situation failure caused reform that’s really interesting i never thought about that.

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Literally what I was telling you the other day

its a cool name just that i find the animal line of names better altough sidewinder its not a bird but still cool
btw this is a sidewinder

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@Smin1080p_WT maybe you can anser this, but is it planned to add Fuel tanks/custom Loadouts to the Sabres?

Nothing to speak of at the moment. Not in this major for sure at least.

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This looks to be report specific. I don’t think there’s been report for other missiles ? @Macron-Spokesman was very quick to do it for the MICA when R-77-1 report got passed

Very probable that tech mods did it for aim-120d I would assume

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Weird that the EFT got passed, as the only "proof"it has over say, the rafale (which is claimed to be compatible) is that there’s a display with them under the wings.
If the Tornado did carry them, I don’t understand why it’s not a thing in game

Kinda hard to move the needle when the devs literally made the missile worse than the c-5 somehow. It’s slight, but its still ridiculous.

No idea if a report for the PL-12A was made man, honestly judging by the negative amount of sources I’ve seen for it, I highly doubt it, it was probably dev discretion.

@Smin1080p_WT any news on AGM84H/K ??
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Datamined so he can’t comment on it

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i dont think anybody can answer this, we always find stuff added secretly, so i dont think a official staff can say something about this, as this should be relavant to the update.

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I’d kill for a Vietnam era F-4D and a modern Iranian F-4D to go with the Tomcat in the US tree (Iranian phantoms have such silly loadouts for air to ground)

Around what time do you guys think the update will be released?

i guess before april

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