What I’m trying to say is that aircraft with no guns still has a place in war thunder.
I also just remembered the Sea vixen as that got no gun to speak of
Yeah, Britain has several aircraft with no guns. Even my top guess for our next aircraft, the Sea Harrier FA2 will likely never run with guns (the gun pods are swapped for AMRAAM)
But if we are getting a Gripen. Then whilst the D fits better, I think i’d prefer the C with the cannon. After 9 months of BVR Trucking in the F3 (where the gun is just dead weight) and then 2+ years of the Phantoms (where the gun is usually dead wieght). It would be nice to have something that can turn fight. With the current state of IR seekers, guns still decide outcomes of fights more often than you’d think
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Well, the F-104S is a bad example then. Sure a lack of guns isn’t a reason not to add a aircraft variant, but we only have a couple of gunless planes so far and most of them are premiums/event vehicles or bombers/attackers which don’t necessarily need a gun to begin with
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True
real, told ya
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I don’t understand the enthusiasm for 140mm cannons…
It is true that penetration proved to be higher (just a little), but these vehicles will surely have slower reload rates and a reduced capacity to store ammunition (mainly due to the larger projectile size). So I don’t see too many benefits in these vehicles. Also, most are old prototypes and use old ammunition.
They will by no means be the best tanks available in the research lines. I can only imagine them as event vehicles.
The French and German vehicles were autoloaded for that reason.
Penetration was stated to reach 800mm even with the old ammo.
I don’t know about the U.S version since I haven’t researched it much.
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Object 195 with a 152 2A83.
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Have you ever heard the phrase “Just because you could, doesn’t mean you should”?
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Or have you heard the words : It’s a joke ? :P
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It’s getting harder and harder to tell whether you are joking or not by the day, as you keep bringing these ridiculous ideas up
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Haha I have read the past few days of conversation. Very interesting
J-10？maybe.
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Russian tank development if the Russian MoD was competent and not corrupt.
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id say thats just a reference to china being really secret about their plans, nothing related to the game
who knows… maybe they have a 7th gen fighter waiting?
I don’t think anyone seriously believes they would be the ultimate end of the line vehicles. They’d be very interesting though. Big gun and big boom. I’d love to play a Leopard 2 with a 10,5m long barrel that accelerates a dart to 1900m/s for example.
They wouldn’t be end of the line. The Leclerc is probably the most advanced tank in the bunch.
They’d probably perform like modern gun based tank destroyers. Stuff like the M1A2 SEPv3, Leo 2A7+, T-90M, and Leclerc XLR have the most modern systems for end of the line vehicles.
Since it’s unlikely current next generation developments will be added, at least in their normal state. They’ll likely have completely made up characteristics.
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Idk, it’s Definitely felt like they could be teasing how we might see a Chinese fighter sooner than later, which would make me think J-10 since it’s actually domestic, but could also be the J-11
I was talking about the XF-2A.
Wasn’t there a German F4 leaked ? I can’t find the image anymore.