Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up and Discussion (Part 2)

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9312

Only 1 devblog and we are heading for part 3 =) (less than 1000 comments left)

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9313

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9314

Thnk someone posted a russian comment earlier with no dev blog toda

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9315

yea without a time or date iirc

9316

I thought it was the SA Gripen only used AMRAAMs? Hence the need for it to have a Alt-history load out.

9317

Only used imaging IR missiles, which have been denied for this update.

9318

So our options are:
Sea Harrier FA.2
Tornado AOP
Or Commonwealth F18

Unless they add a fictional loadout to the SAAF gripen

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9319

Pretty sure the Sea Harrier was denied?

9320

Was it? When was this?

9321

I don’t know, one of the Smin interactions with UK mains.

I don’t play UK so don’t track it that closely. I could be wrong

9322

CAS platforms where denied, depends as whar u define the harrirr i guess

9323

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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9324

I suspect it was referencing Harrier GR9 and Tornado GR4 given they wield Brimstone

9325

That Gripen isn’t RAF tho?

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9326

Honestly i’d take literally anything useful at this point lol

9327

CAS Harrier was. Sea Harrier is a different piece of kit and was mainly for fleet defence

9328

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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9329

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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9330

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?

9331

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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