Thai never used R-Darters anyway, so it should be AMRAAMs regardless.
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i have been hoping and praying for the B.Kh20 (thailand designation for their gripen) because man it would help out japan heaps, but i dont think we will get it, for now, unless some new news comes out about what to expect from the royal thai air tree.
Absolutely, moving it down would undo the work the last decompression did. Hoping in the next Major patch we see more decompression and addition of vehicles with differing ground and air BRs. (A2D-1 down to 6.3-6.7 in ARB please?)
I was wondering around the imperial war museum and buying archaeology books today. Any news or new leaks?
Thailand does have Derby, which is what the R-Darter is, a local Derby. Possibly might have Derby and AMRAAM (like for example on the Israeli F-16C)
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From what I know Thailand has the derby for the F-5E TCU/F-5TH super Tigris, don’t know if it’s on the B.Kh20 gripen… Wish I could check
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Its the VT-4A1 with a Thai user Skin, which Thailand doesn’t operate.
Derby is most likely just for use on F-5TH, their Gripen are all MS.20 standards. However, their F-16A (e)MLU and T-50TH would be a lot better by all means, and most notably unique unlike “another” C&P Gripen C.
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Probably amraams, derbys are a risk to my mental health
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I just use Derby’s as unflarable IR missiles for up and close nonsense
Why tho? The A2D-1 is quite the potent fighter when it isn’t being weighed down by bombs
As someone who prefers the AMRAAM I would be a giddy son-of-a-gun to have a AMRAAM gripen to go along with my AAM-4 F-15J(M)
Might be just me now days, but I just can’t get it to B&Z like it used to, 8.0 jets have been killer.
(Edit: just flew it, 2 kills, skill issue on my end)
Though I will admit I am hoping for the F5ThHor the BK.h19 cause F-5 with derby be funni, jokes aside though I wish we could get any clue of Japan getting a CAS upgrade, my only real question here is if Japan will get a CAS aircraft to perform with top tier, as it’s hard to play top tier Japan with so much pressure overhead even with the type 81
It works but id prefer amraams 9/10 times. Especially for air battles.
Base VT4 shouldnt be hugely different. It lacks APS but it is much more practical to use the fire rate of Japanese MBTs to knock out ATGM launchers first. However when it comes to dealing with heli ATGM its gonna be proven to be a problem i dont think the type 81c can deal with ka50 or spike launchers
Generally depends on what Gaijin does. Thailand does have various LGBs and AGM-65G, which would be adequate CAS for now and probably a few more updates if Gaijin does nothing too crazy, even if it will fall off again in the future unless we consider other ASEAN options alongside them.
So basically depending on what exactly Gaijin adds, Thailand can be a fix for top tier CAS for a while.
SPAA would still be an issue though, since Thailand never bought the proposed HVSD/ADAMS, and their Roland M3S might not even have been offered to them considering the lack of sources besides an unfounded mention on wikipedia.
The type 81 can VERY effectively take down the healies when in optic track mode, however the spike throwing ones are tricky if they are capable
I did a brief research on the topic, it seems like the RMA operates a handful of rapier SAM systems. However I cant be sure about them being on SPAA platforms.
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