Because its Swedish :P
Hopefully we get the E this december. And then some interesting ground vehicles or a new subtree or something. But i ikow its too much to ask for sweden
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By the way, in case you know, is there any differences between the Gripen E and NG? I remember someone telling me the E has ew and not the NG but I haven’t found anything on internet
From what I understand and put very simply.
The NG is basically a Gripen C with many of the Gripen E upgrades.
Whilst the Gripen E has things like a new wing and better intergration of the upgrades.
The E has likely recieved more upgrades since the original NG for things like EW, but given that isnt modeled yet (Thoug potentially hinted at to be coming) likely wont play much of an impact,
Id guess Gripen NG with Aim-9M and Aim-120 B/C5s as a largely direct Typhoon equivalent and then the Gripen E with IRIS-T and Aim-120 initially and then Meteor later.
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Where was it hinted at that has flow completely past me?
I cant think of what else “modern air warfare technologies” could be. Especially in the context of adding tech prior to gen 5s
Yeah that would be ew (jamming and thar sorts) and aesa and newer missiles. All of the above lines up with gripen E so you are probably right
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My wishlist for now is cv9050 gripen E. K2no and strv123 for sweden
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Well in order to wishlist you might wanna go here : P
https://forum.warthunder.com/t/next-patch-and-beyond-wishlist-everything-except-tech-trees-part-2
NG is like an inbetween of the C/D and E. The E is developed from the NG (Next Generation). Its a Gripen C with the E’s Engine, AESA Radar, 2 additional hardpoints, more fuel
Been a while since I have done anything here, so here are some stats.
Spearhead update
Total vehicles: 30
TT: 24
Premium: 3
Squadron: 3
I haven’t been following along too much with this update. In fact, the entire first part of the update discussion didn’t even show up for me. With that being said, I’m not sure if I’m missing information or what, but 30 vehicles is a fairly low number compared with updates over the past couple years. I don’t know what they are planning for the final update of the year, but hopefully the decrease in vehicles with this update is caused by something major in the next one. I am very glad to see that we have strayed away from an almost equal number of TT and premium vehicles coming in an update though, that is a welcomed change.
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Indeed, normally updates have around 40 odd vehicles now, I’m not sure what the missing 10 could of been but my guess most likely the Singapore stuff for China
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Hate to be that guy but typically it’s around high 40’s to mid-high 50’s per update. So we are short like 15-20 vehicles. I think it’s also important to note that there is very little to no copy paste, so that is also probably a big contributing factor. Kind of a sad reality that can be drawn up, if we want more vehicles per update we gotta have copy paste and closer to 50-50 split on TT-Premium.
Eh, 50 is a bit much m8 especially for a November update. Normally nowadays they aim for 40 vehicles per update so realistically 35 seems right for an November update I’m half expecting the update to come out on the 18th personally so we still got time for a couple of surprises hopefully. But yeah the November is always the most dullest one imho.
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Ex-historical consultant bug report wasn’t accepted lol
Looking back at previous updates you are correct about the November update typically being smaller, and it makes sense given how little time is between each update around this time of the year. This one in particular doesn’t really have anything of interest to me. 60mm on M113 is the only thing that sort of catches my eye. Jaguar is a cool modern piece. Sad to see no TOW HMMWV yet.
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Yep, for me it’s the nation changer, the D.XXII, the Hawks and the Pakistani Oplot.
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Hawk 200 has me by the throat ngl
so hyped :3
They just need to give me a Hawk 209 for the Japanese tree and Ill be happy (read: not sobbing over the lack of new CVRTs)
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Ah, you must have been affected by that bug. It stops showing updated threads you follow. I find commenting on there helps somewhat.
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You mean like putting the autoloader inside the suspensions torsion bars just so it’s placed below the armor meant to protect it? Or how the ERA is modeled as solid slabs of multiple blocks?
But I guess at least they fixed the reload for it finally. (Clearly now it deserves 12.3 / 12.7 BR)