This is what’s gonna happen lol
Fictional loadout to real aircraft is better than further opening pandora’s box of commonwealth nations
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I suspect it was referencing Harrier GR9 and Tornado GR4 given they wield Brimstone
That Gripen isn’t RAF tho?
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Honestly i’d take literally anything useful at this point lol
CAS Harrier was. Sea Harrier is a different piece of kit and was mainly for fleet defence
Sorry Morv, we couldn’t.
The RAF doesn’t own any Gripen Ds.
ETPS is a private military contractor that works with the RAF, but is not owned by the RAF. Smin has already denied private company/contractor jets.
Furthermore, they never actually owned this jet. Its essentially a rental jet for flight training. It was never purchased by the UK.
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As far as I agree with the 1st part of your comment, I have to disagree with the 2nd one since Italian F-16ADFs and Tornado ADVs we have in game were leased by them and never owned.
Leased vehicles used by military do have place in War Thunder… It’s true tho that ETPS JAS39D isn’t one of them.
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At least the F-16s used by Italy had Italian liveries, Italian pilots, and their own markings.
The Gripen leased to UK has the Swedish air force roundels still, and I’m pretty sure the pilots are Swedish too?
Our best bets are:
Sea Harrier FA.2 with AIM-120Bs (This would be the most likely addition if ARHs are to come, as SHAR FA.2 was the first RAF aircraft to mount AIM-120)
CF-18 (Mounts AIM-7s and other ordinance we’ve already seen in game)
Tornado AOP (Would be a giant let down)
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Leased military vehicles by the nation make sense, for sure. But private company aircraft, have no place in the game. Two different kettle of fish I think
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Doubt we’ll see Gripen C from SAAF as it only mounted IRIS-T
German MiG-29s never mounted R-27ER/ET or T and Germany in general never acquired AIM-9J or R-13M1 missiles.
Italian Tornado ADVs never mounted Skyflash Super TEMP.
etc.
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i know but you know gajin there properly make it a copy of the one they give to Sweden and call it a day
Also i believe we getting something foreign due to what smin said
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I might be wrong, I’m no German Aircraft expert so sorry if this is actually something else, but is this not R27ER?
If AMRAAM are not coming this update, does this Tornado still make sense
Commonwealth sounds more likely with all we’ve been told by Smin.
Constantly saying the UK has no domestic airframes for the role needed.
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No, Tornado AOP is essentially F.3 with AMRAAM. No visual differences beside radar updates. (Software updates)
Bruh dud its monday they do not work on monday’s another devblog will be tomorrow
Me personally? With that ESports logo, i’m thinking we’ll get F/A-18 or CF-18
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