McDonnell Douglas CF-188 (CF-18) Hornet IMP I: Canadian Fury

yeah, from what I think, if Canada is NOT added before they implement this it should go to Britain, however if it IS in the game then it should got there instead and Britain could potentially get an Australian F/A-18C instead.

if it was added to the US TT it would most likely be an event vehicle and I don’t think a lot of Canadians would be happy about their best Jet fighter being a one off vehicle, especially when the US has up to 7 hornet variations it could get with the B,D and F also potentially being event vehicles

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AFAIK the turret was actually fitted to the chassis to show that it was indeed viable. I believe it was intended to compete against the Stormer HVM but the Stormer had interoperability so was chosen instead.

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CF188? There’s a YTP joke in there somewhere…
Great suggestion, cool plane, and +1!

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Photo of a CF-18 with Mavericks (photo taken from a sign at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada)

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Whether given to the British TT or possibly the Canadian TT in the future, this aircraft is excellent.
If given the British TT, it can create an intermediate model in the middle of the F-4 and the Typhoon (JAS-39 is, after all, only single-engine, it is too small)

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If higher performance airframes come with AMRAAMS and the EFT is refused to be added this can be a good stop gap

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Quite agree.

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If it gets added to the UK tree, I figured it would go to rank 8 after the Phantom FG.1 (or after the Sea Harrier FA.2 when that gets added to the game), just to give something to that tech tree line and because the F-18 was originally a naval jet design

Depends which version of the CF-18 gets added, since the original CF-18 couldn’t fire AMRAAMs, but the 2001 CF-18 IMP modernization replaced the radar set with an APG-73 and AMRAAM capability.

Of course this is way out of scope of the current game but one day we could see the CF-18 HEP with the AESA CA/APG-79 radar and AIM-9X/AIM-120D (this modernization started in 2020 and just wrapped up)

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Agree
Since RAF line get SA JAS39, it’s good for Naval line to get new top jet.

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My guy south Africa is a sub tree we can get what ever they use and two why does Canada belong to the Americans three we will have a gap in our naval line in which it can fit and two what does weapons have to do with anything

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Plus if it go to the US it would become an unattainable event vehicle. It wouldn’t in the UK.

For the CF-18 to come into the game best order would be:

  1. Canadian tech-tree (Tech-tree plane)
  2. UK (90% chance of tech-tree plane)
  3. US (100% Unattainable event vehicle)
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it would add nothing to the US tree
The Uk tree it would fill a gap

A canadian Tech Tree or joint commonwealth tree (Canada, Australia and New Zealand) would be ideal

Another option is to change britain into a CANZUK + SA mega tree but that seems like a far stretch

Id say unless either of those happen the CF-18 should go to britain so canadians can actually enjoy their main fighter

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it would be wasted as an event plane

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Hence it is listed as an Unattainable event vehicle.

Compared to the other two being called Tech-tree planes.

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Well, a Canada tree without help is possible I’ve been liking the idea of it being set up so it could get an ANZAC sub-tree down the line. The closet we could get to a “Commonwealth tree” with what little rules we have figured out.

IMO should’ve been canzuk without SA needed.

I wouldn’t take it to heart. That guy wants everything in the US tree and nowhere else.

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Oh excuse me for wanting US planes to stay unique to the US.

All of you british mains are so entitled and constantly try to completely ruin the point of individual tech trees just so you can have every vehicle in yours. I am absolutely opposed to that and will fight it everywhere I see it.

With the addition of the JAS-39 to Britain, there is zero reason for an F-18 to exist in the British tree, as they fulfill a very similar role.

Either way, not a single F-18 has anything to do with Britain, certainly not weapons like the AIM-9X, which would be incredibly unfair for Britain to have one of the best short range missiles that isn’t even used by them or has anything to do with them, while ALSO having the ASRAAM.

you know ASRAAM is better then early aim 9x and it wouldn’t make Britain unfair if it had it and if that a really big problem for you their is always the Aussie F/A18 that used ASRAAMS

you will get a F/A18 and many other nations will get them Us is the least unique nation if you want a nation that unique play France

They can fill a gap we will have in our naval line and would be a good early AMRAAM carrier until the EFT


Also looks very British in this photo

Continuing the discussion from General Dynamics F-111K Merlin: The Vark goes British:

Also you seem to be very biased as you believe a British made vehicle on a platform the British used shouldn’t go to the British as the Americans are the ones who considered it which completely goes against the argument you are trying to make that the Uk shouldn’t have any US vehicles.
Like you say the US should get a modified stormer made for them and the uk shouldn’t but when its a Us vehicle modified by the British no it can’t be added to uk as it would take away from the US

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