Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 1)

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The opinion that the F-2 is superior to the Rafale or Eurofighter is very silly. There is a huge difference in engine thrust, armament that can be installed, etc. Besides, the F-2 has never been equipped with HMDs from the first model to the present, and only ADTW has the 4th generation AAM, while the regular squadrons deploy the aam3.

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4152

a 12.7 Hornet A AiM-7F + 9L
a 13.7 Hornet C AiM-120B + 9M
a 14.7 Hornet E AiM-120 C5 + 9X

4153

Should be lower imo, it’s open top, doesn’t have a turret + from what I found its shell will have worse muzzle velocity (≈560 m/s against 684 m/s for M109G), maybe also worse RoF.

Video btw

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/o0-eaHooCWE?si=iauAYVxWMrQi4FVh

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4154

The later variant might be given HMD since they were equipped with AAM-5. It looks like a good reasonable guess that HMD was part of the AAM-5 package.

4155

Im not sure if id want to see a Hornet fight an MLD like its Desert Storm in War Thunder

4156

No, it would be much better to just add these things to existing platforms. We should not have to grind out whole new vehicles for things that should just be added to the current platforms.

I personally do not want to have to grind out THREE new aircraft just for AESA radars when they can simply be implemented as either modifications or just straight up model changes.

What would be better is to add older aircraft before these modern ones so that if we want to get them we can, but we wouldn’t have to.

4157

While it may not be ideal I hope we get a version with HMD

4158

first of all the A was sounding very bad on paper so I put it there

and then that’s the BR of the MiG-29 9.12/9.13 and that would be a fair fight

4159

Late model air combat equipment is aam3×4,aam4b×4, there is no fact that it was equipped with aam5 and HMD. If you have ever seen an F-2 with aam5, it would be an F-2A ADTW.

4160

any changes in its seeker?
since it’s too early to add IIR seeker modern missiles.
but we might see multi-element seeker missiles like Python-4, PL-8B and R-73M, in game, they should have both type of irccm like manpad

4161

Is there any major difference besides Avionics between the A and C?

4162

slight performance increase iirc

probably not worth adding as a seperate missile

4163

the A has the APG-65 and the C uses the APG-73

apart from that I didn’t dive too deep into it’s technology

the A also has much worse engines apparently, those alone would probably warrant 12.7

4164

Ill do some looking see what I can find, maybe some threads on the Hornet

4165

so, does the western planes have any things similar? multi-element seeker but not IIR
besides, it reminds me of an article from UK pilot who used early AIM-9M, they complained a lot about it.

4166

It if doesn’t get an HMD, it’s baffling that it doesn’t get added lol.

Any documentation about that? According to this post, F-2 got HMD when F-15J got HMD when it got AAM-5.

If it’s really true that it was only used on ADTW, that still leaves some wiggle room for Gaijin to use for production variants.

4167

Can you tell me about that article?

4168

Funny enough is F-18E weighs more than an F-4 Phantom, while having not particularly upgraded engines.
When F-18C weighs less while having more powerful engines than the Phantom, yeah it gets up and go.
Super Hornet is something else.

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Personally, depends on gajin

35G maneuvrability, maybe

Flare resistant higher AIM-9M

F/A-18A with AN/APG-65

F/A-18A+ fitted AN/APG-73 RUG I radar like F/A-18C/D 1990’s

But F/A-18C/D in 2000’s ~ late 2010’s outfitted AN/APG-73 RUG II radar

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Planes

  • DEU 🇩🇪:
    • Eurofighter (Tranche 1)
  • USSR 🇷🇺:
    • SU-33
  • GBR 🇬🇧:
    • Typhoon FGR. 2
  • JPN 🇯🇵/🇹🇭:
    • F-5A [THA]
    • F-5T [THA]
  • CHN 🇨🇳:
    • J-11B
    • J-10B
  • ITA 🇮🇹:
    • F-2000A Typhoon (Tranche 1)
  • FRA 🇫🇷:
    • Rafale C (F3. 2)
  • ISR 🇮🇱/🇨🇴:
    • Kfir C.10 (Block 60) [COL]

Ground Vehicles

  • USA 🇺🇸:
    • EFVP1 (event)
    • RDF/LT (premium)
  • DEU 🇩🇪:
    • Pzh 2000
  • USSR 🇷🇺:
    • BMD-4M (premium)
  • GBR 🇬🇧/🇿🇦:
    • ZA-HVM [ZAF]
  • JPN 🇯🇵:
    • M44
  • CHN 🇨🇳:
    • HQ-17
  • FRA 🇫🇷:
    • VCBI MK2 T40
  • ISR 🇮🇱:
    • Namer IFV

Naval Vehicles

  • USA 🇺🇸:
    • Maryland (BB-46)
  • USSR 🇷🇺:
    • Admiral Kuznetsov (Baku-style, for test flight)
    • Arkhangelsk(ex - Royal Sovereign (05))
  • JPN 🇯🇵:
    • Kirishima (event)

Remember there will be vehicles that aren’t leaked

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