But the said restrictions would be lifted since Finland did join nato.
Whatever the author of the book which stated the claim counted as a modification.
Pretty sure they were talking about advanced A2G specifically. They still could have had the possibility of ordering the aircraft with equipment for regular A2G armament, but they didn’t.
that could mean absoloutely irrelevant stuff like painting a random lever in the cockpit diffrenty, using diffrent materials for Repairs than was stock snd stuff like that
I think that was F/A-18A which couldnt go past mach with full A2A loadout in level flight
I mean he literally said all A2G and, guided or unguided bombs or missiles.
The C/D still have massive drag when the regular AMRAAM rails are attached. Not sure what the top speed is tho
I seem to remember Defyn stating pylon/ weapon station drag is not modelled in game. I don’t know if that is true
Pylon/ weapon station drag is added to Weapon’s drag iirc
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That makes some sense to me. Bit of a Spaghetti implementation but there we are.
Eh, I dunno then. I don’t know anything about the US export restrictions, but what I do know is that the Swiss Hornets have never been armed with A2G ordnance, so it shouldn’t get it in-game either
yea but its implemented, just in a diffrent way
and not dynamic either its just added as a drag multiplier
Bc it’s was never used by the South African Army, it’s was introduced to them in a competition for a new wheeled AFV, but TH800 (The Class 3 prototype) lost to the Rooikat, it’s pure German built and their domestic design.
https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=19943203
Swiss parliamentary question to the federal council(government)
Entscheidend ist aber, dass die 34 zu beschaffenden F/A-18 ein absolutes Minimum zur Erfüllung der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Flugwaffe (Wahrung der Lufthoheit, Luftverteidigung) sind; ihr gleichzeitiger Einsatz für den Erdkampf würde zu einer unliebsamen Zersplitterung der Kräfte führen.
The decisive factor, however, is that the 34 F/A-18s to be procured are an absolute minimum for fulfilling the most important tasks of the air force (maintaining air sovereignty, air defense); their simultaneous use for ground combat would lead to an unwelcome fragmentation of forces.
Yes, absolutely. They haven’t been armed with it because Switzerland never intended to do that. It was always supposed to be a pure air defense fighter.
Switzerland at this point in time does not have A2G capabilities in its air force. The fact that they plan to buy F-35s including A2G capability is a hotly discussed topic in Switzerland and there’s public backlash for wanting to arm the F-35 with A2G
Do me a favor and look at some other non-US tanks at that BR range.
The T-72 isn’t the only one capable of doing that.
I speak C1 German and this really doesnt sound like we didnt want A2G it sounds like the hornets cannot provide A2G
I know that Im just saying that the one with abysmal flight performance is the A/B
I am a native German speaker and I can tell it’s 100% it’s they didn’t want A2G.
Here’s another source from a news article about the F-35
Solche Bombenangriffe sind für die Schweizer Armee undenkbar. Zumindest bis heute. Als 1994 die letzten Hunter-Jagdbomber ausser Dienst gestellt wurden, verlor die Armee die «Erdkampffähigkeit» – die Fähigkeit, Ziele am Boden zu bombardieren. Die Schweiz setzt die damals beschafften und bis heute im Einsatz stehenden F/A-18-Kampfjets als reine Abfangjäger ein. Nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und dem Achtungserfolg an der Urne mit der «Stop F/A-18»-Initiative 1993 (43 Prozent Ja-Stimmen) sah man in der neutralen Schweiz keine Notwendigkeit, sich mit Bomben auszurüsten.
Such bombing raids are unthinkable for the Swiss army. At least until today. When the last Hunter fighter-bombers were decommissioned in 1994, the army lost its “ground combat capability” - the ability to bomb targets on the ground. Switzerland uses the F/A-18 fighter jets procured at that time and still in service today purely as interceptors. After the end of the Cold War and the respectable success of the “Stop F/A-18” initiative at the ballot box in 1993 (43% in favor), neutral Switzerland saw no need to equip itself with bombs.
Kampfjetbeschaffung: Bomben im Gepäck | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
I mean, it does say that they basically cannot afford using the Hornet for ground attack, as they need as many of them for air defense as possible