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

FA18C with basic A2A and A2G would be circa 13.7 with edit: i mean without C AMRAAMs and 14.0 with. Tbf the FA18E without AIM174 would probably be worse since it sacrifices more for CAS or SLAMER etc.

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PLAAF:
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Someone commented that, given its intake position, it should have a huge bay and allows him to take out 3 bases on a run

BRO

have enyone seen a bug where your ammo gets limited on a mbt?

And I have repeatedly said it doesn’t work as a prototype, especially as with no radar like you suggest any missile launch would be just a straight blind launch as with no radar, IRST, or JHMCS there is absolutely no way to target and therefore a high likelihood of team killing

Which leads back to it being OP if added before other stealth aircraft and pointless if added after, you would have to give it at least a radar or IRST to function and with either of those, assuming it could use AMRAAMs through IRST, it would be significantly better than anything current or near.

Also did the YF-23 have countermeasures, that seems like the sort of thing that would be left for later in development and if not then would you add them to this not YF-23 and not F-23 fabrication too?

I get a interesting Chinese meme,
meanwhile in Washington:
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and Pizza Hut is closed for Christmas, so no pizza today

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Okay uh
At least i dont need to buy anything now, still waiting for that french prem

i need to gamble and the snail is preventing me

What tree wants the spanish Eurofighter, F-18 and harriers? :)

Eh they could be skins or premiums in the countries who developed them ig

Unfortunatly the first community-made official in-game aircraft lasted for 3 months on sale. The last time we saw this was the T129 ATAK.

They’ll probably return it as a GE premium for Swiss holidays/celebrations every year.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

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Presumably so. We will however wait to see.

Is it intended that marks of distinction dont have price drop stages

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Yes

im losing it

You say that but the F-14B is the same BR as the F-15A despite having worse FM and radar, and I believe that is largely to do with the missile kit, so it wouldn’t be too strange for an F/A-18 with that 10 AMRAAM + 2 Sidewinder loadout to end up at 14.0, especially if we get an AESA equipped Marines version of the F/A-18C.

Flight performance isn’t the only metric used for determining BR and aside from being slower than the competition, the F/A-18C has enough to make it at 14.0, it isn’t like the Harrier, the Hornet can dogfight just fine, and it has just as many missiles as the SU-27SM, better missiles at that, and with an arguably better FM

EFT and Hornet performance difference is not even remotely comparable to that of F-15A and F-14B

Are these all future British additions? I’m excited ;)