Calm down, you don’t need the make the sea of irradiated colbalt in every air battle
how come many F-106 units opted to keep the Genie instead of switching to the gun then?
Still won’t be enough to one shot an Su-25 anyway :P
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I mean maybe they just fly in a way that reduces damage, don’t see many other aircraft try that /j
Because 106 squadrons were deployed in the great up north where they were supposed to intercept nuclear carrying bombers, not dogfighting MiGs. Making several passes with a gun is not conducive to that job.
Its primary and most important weapon was the AIM-4/MA-1/SAGE combination, no matter how much you cope about the Genie.
From what testing i’ve done in custom missions the engine should be able to handle it somewhat? Beehive shells aren’t possible due to
- The amount of fragmentation spawned
- The physics range of the fragmentation in order to cover an appropriate area.
These issues aren’t present on weapons such as nukes which rely on shockwaves to do damage. Now there’d still be issues, like there would have to be new visual effects and such added, but that’s not a hard limitation like whats stopping beehive shells.
All that being said though, I really really do not forsee gaijin adding nukes, they’d simply be too hard to balance and counterplay against them would not be fun.
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the problem isnt a single one, by the nature of arb there will be multiple launched at the start of a match
and i dont want to imagine what happens if there are 10 of them in the air at once
besides obvious balancing issues
It wouldn’t be enough to prevent a helicopter from firing off (and somehow hitting) a bunch of ATGMs either.
Dont worry, Gaijin might be gracious and fulfill their promise by adding a reskinned c&p Re.2000, another tech tree bf 109 and a FW. There, your" low tier Hungarian aviation"
didnt MA-1 have the ability to line up Genie shots, and Genies were made to be shot into Soviet bomber formations which you said was its main job.
as cool as the MA-1 and Super Falcons are, they didnt have the firepower to bring down fleets of Soviet bombers, and were plagued with severe reliability issues, while AIR-2 did not have this problem afaik
Fair enough, though i am fully expecting them to be gimped in some way and under performing.
it is already confirmed from reliable sources that they will add vehicles next update
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Lmao
W.M.23, Héja I & II, W.M.21 and the Me-210 ect were reskins of FW’s ???
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My inside source told me that the new update will introduce at least 1 new bug into the game.
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you didnt catch my drift. i was sarcastically insinuating that Gaijin could make that “low tier HU aviation” into another c&p dump
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The Falcon didn’t have reliability issues. That’s a myth spawned from the exceptionally common USAF incompetence in Vietnam. The MA-1 did at first, which would have affected the Genie more.
And if the 106 is trying to line up a genie, it isn’t shooting Falcons, which is what it was designed to do. The Genie was a secondary weapon that it could use.
I’d would rather have Hungarian C&P though than Romanian stand in’s in my line up : /
My Hungarian tanks been waiting since December of 23 they’ve been wanting their Hungarian brothers for a long time
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i feel you, brother
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