Major Update "Spearhead" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

And of course no fixes.

Here is a valid report that denied recently:

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/nsCJcC7Tu409

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Yeah we don’t need another F-16AJ

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Are you insinuating that gaijin does not take into consideration Italy and the defects and/or shortcomings in TT, especially the terrestrial one?

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I hope its just a case of not being ready

All we realy want is for sweden to receave something needed and not DOA

Don’t worry, sweden will get the Gripen NG 1 year after everyone else has received a 15.0 :p

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Nah. Gripen NG is too OP. Gripen B maybe, at 14.3 with C5s instead of Bs

:P

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Why would the B be 14.3?

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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