HS 293 would be absolutely amazing.
And Soviet Murmy is also a cool thing.
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they were guesses we had before we knew it had sth guided
I hope it just becomes a mod for the TT He177
but hey I’m also hoping for BT700 torpedos and Mistel 3 for the Fw190F8 so who cares
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(exepted he made the coment way after it was revealed it had to have guided amunition)
The devs have already commented in two Q&A 's that they don’t consider anti-radiation missiles to be useful against player-controlled SAM vehicles, so I don’t think the development of ARM is related to their plans for Ground.
Since the static s2a sites in the files ( S-75 / S-300 / Hawk / Patriot ) are the ones they referred to by name as examples of targets that antiradiation would be useful against, and the " sead " mission tag was datamined recently, it seems more like they’ll add them w/ a focus for the Air modes.
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Gwrman Pucara?
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The anti-radiation missile (ARM) early variant from vietnam war and post-war vietnam in the 60s - 70’s ?
Id hope it wasnt limited to just those, as that would, once again, exclude Britain (and most nations) from a new mechanic. Still waiting on Napalm and GPS bombs for mutliple aircraft
So Id hope they would include ALARM, and AGM-88 HARM so that more nations have access.
I think (but could be entirely wrong) only thing britian had with “Early” ARM was the Vulcan with Shrike.
I think Britain had Martel ARM variant
Your right, forgot about those. So thats Jags, Bucs and Tornado (for britain, A few mirages for the french). But still would hope we got ALARM
France would also use Martel aswell
Then the US would be AGM-45, AGM-78, AGM-88
Perhaps even AGM-122 on the naval platforms and even on their AH-1 Super Cobra
So in summary for the BP, since it needs to be specifically a heavy bomber, with guided weapons, afaik these are the most likely options:
- He 177
- Fw 200
- Ju 290
A bit more out there (existed and flown, but never carried the Fritz X or Hs 293)
- Ju 390
- He 274
Even more out there and very unlikely (prototype never made it to flight)
- He 277
- Ju 488
Most previous event tanks were the 3rd reward of the BP. So with that, as controversial, boring and (in my personal opinion) stupid as this is, I sadly suspect the Gaijin will make the tank crate the level 75 reward. The Murmansk will be the level 50 reward most likely.
So with that, the German plane will have to be the low tier reward. As such, I put my money on the Fw 200, with an off chance to the Ju 290.
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Yep, but I think AGM-88 HARM is about equal to ALARM (especially assuming they dont model ALARMs special attack profile) and quite a few nations use AGM-88.
So unless it was only US, Britain, France and Soviets. (as I dont think anyone else operated ARM before AGM-88s but they are a type of missile im not confident speaking on) then they should add ALARM as well and other more “modern” 1980s era ARMs
Is the special attack profile on ALARM the one that it just hangs by a parachute until the radar its targeting activates?
Yep. Highly doubt they’ll model its loiter thing
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Hmmm, I think so too.
It would be very cool if it did though
Yeah, it would
I just see that as making it easier to shoot down with guns or optically guided missiles anyways since the missile hanging on a parachute will be a fairly obvious thing to spot.
Probably, though IRL, like during Desert Storm, Volleys were fired off ahead of Tornado Gr1s with bombs or JP233s and were conducted at night.
In-game yeah, I could see them being shot out the sky, but then SPAA are attacking the missiles and not the aircraft firing them, so they’ve still done their job to a certain degree.
so are we expecting any new jets for soviets in upcoming update or we gonna be stuck with the su27?
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