I personally hope that we do see the F-89J with the Aim-4 Nuclear Falcon, limited to Air only, as nukes should be limited to reward strikes in Ground, but in Air, the blast only being several hundred meters means that unless you fire into a furball, you’re probably only going to get 1 plane per missile, if that
Falcons (AIM-4D and later variants) can pull almost as well as the AIM-9L / R-60 (up to ~26.5G) in specific circumstances, and are almost an Mach above Sidewinders at all ranges and have lower drag. The only issue is that they only have a impact fuse, so like the Star-Streak will be entirely dependent on the quality of the PID implementation for lethality additionally as Missile armed interceptors they don’t need to do well in a dogfight.
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Just do the CF-18?
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cant wait to see the every non British main cry
Gripen through south africa, Mirages through south africa, Hornets through that, CF-18 and australia, Mig 29K and SU30 through India
quite the lineup lol
but in all seriousness if italy can get its leased F-16s and Tornados then surely britain can get the F-18s its used for over a decade
but these have been flown directly by brit pilots, since the Harriers retired as well
Not when US owns the jets and services them from their funds
Nice Australian flag, what about it?
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basically, it was a way for British pilots to still fly during their contracts so that the RAF and FAA didn’t have to sack the ones they couldn’t put in Typhoons, Tornados ETC
and also to maintain an ability for CATOBAR since the original QEs were gonna have cats and traps
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So…
If US pilots flew Eurofighters, does that mean US can get an Eurofighter?
EDIT: I’m not saying US should get it. Just using deathmisser’s logic here
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It’s an unofficial lease m8 if we had kept the Harriers they wouldn’t be doing this
You didn’t answer the question.
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i mean there is a slight difference, the US has the F-16Vs, F-15Es etc for air superiority at that level
whereas Britain doesn’t have a Naval jet fighter other than the FA.2, with them not gonna be a competitive when the F/A-18Es come along
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Ok, fair point.
But using his logic, the whole point of tech trees becomes non-existent because everyone would have everything that way
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Does that mean we own Liberia 🇱🇷? 🤔
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to be fair it started as a joke, but given that british pilots had flown them for over a decade now, its almost as justifiable as the F-16s for italy, plus if I had enlisted in the FAA as a Fast jet pilot, the chances are i would have become an F-18E pilot before we got the F-35s (Unless there was a vacancy for Eurofighter/ Tornado Pilots)
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How is it a one-off if you do it more than once?
So I already posted this before 😑
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Sorry for not catching it sooner m8
Italian F-16s at least had proper AMI roundels on them
Look, I am aware that British tech tree is in dire situation. Everyone else getting shiny new toys and there they are twiddling their thumbs hoping that Gaijin gives them something.
Honestly, CF-18 is most sensible option to me personally.
I’m saying this because there is Canadian ADATS in ground tree, so there is some actual basis for CF-18
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CF-18 would be better, it was just a thought given that they are directly flown by British pilots, I would rather them than an Aussie F-18 TBH