Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

Like Cheat Vixen?

no clue, does the vixen have variants with gun pods?

i can only tell you how they handled thai alpha jets

One of the prototypes of the Sea Vixen had guns, but they didn’t go with that design

@Smin1080p_WT Sorry to bother you, is there any update on the below bug reports for the F-111c?

[DEV] F-111C missing GBU-15
F-111C - Missing AIM-9 shoulder pylons
[DEV] F-111C missing outer pylons for bombs

Paid real life money for a very distinct advantage.
Glad someone finally admitted they are pay to win though

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Hello

These 2 are the most likely to be resolved soonest.

This one is the least likely, as this appears to have been an F-111A converted to C and not representative of the standard C variant. If we change our aircraft in game to represent this version (converted from A), then it may loose weaponry / capability elsewhere. So sadly unless it can be proven this capability was present on the standard C, its not likely to come.

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Because it’s easier to protect a fighter and would you rather put an extremely expensive bomber with a full aircrew at risk or a replaceable single seat fighter?

Also AARGM-ER is faster and iirc cheaper than a JASSM-ER or even a JSOW

Because the Nuclear option isn’t always the right one?

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There’s nothing to “finally admit”, it’s just a fact though

So what? It was an official product offered by the game store- it’s not like we are talking about a cheat, hack or any other kind of shady or illegal thing.

Just because some people dislike these P2W items it doesn’t mean it’s okay to screw over thousands of customers who have spent their money on these legal and official products.

As I said earlier; it’s fine by me if bushes are removed- but ONLY if they are properly refunded. There’s no reason not to agree with refunding other than wanting to make people who purchased miserable over the petty feeling that “they deserve it”.

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@Smin1080p_WT Is there any plans in the future to decrease the chance to get thunderclouds and to decrease the height of trees? I keep having issues where in an uptier my MiG-29SMT is so outperformed by everything I’m fighting that I attempt to sit on the deck but often get maps that have clouds on the ground or maps that have trees that are 50+ meters that make it near impossible to dodge ARH missiles via the ground.

No, Israel only ever obtained the Aim-9L and Aim-9M.

That’s not how things work. If it gets the countermeasures, it doesn’t just get “a ton of them”, it only gets as many as other M-346 variant. And if it gets countermeasures, it most certainly will get the underbelly gun pod.
Keep in mind it’s also got a strong radar compatible with the Derby, the potential for gaijin to give it Elbit’s Dash or Targo HMD, potentially the Python 4/5s, LGBs, up to 6 AAMs, Mavericks, and more. All of these capabilities are found in other M-346s in foreign service, and as such gaijin could give it these capabilities ingame.
We already have a 9.7 strike jet anyway, the Ayit.

Sipri is pretty reliable but if you have evidence to the contrary then be my guest

The evidence is that there is no primary source evidence suggesting Israel obtained any Aim-9”S” sidewinders ever. A single website isn’t a source. There is however documentation detailing the acquisition and purchase of the Aim-9M for training usage on F-16s, and as such it’s entirely possible they were used in the Lavi as seen in the photos. The Aim-9L is also known to have been used in IAF aircraft and are the reason for multiple confirmed kills. They never had the Aim-9”S”.

Sipri uses mostly first hand sources and a handful for each one
They have made mistakes but they arent left on the page i used, they can miss things however so you may be right but unless anything to the contrary i am more likely to believe Sipri, which again is a somewhat decent source just not a primary one

https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-methods#:~:text=The%20most%20frequently%20used%20sources,arms-producing%20company%20web%20sites.

Since it’s possible we might eventually get strategic bombers, here’s a look at the vehicles that would qualify:

USA
(So many x and y planes!)
B-36
B-47
B-52
B-58*
B-1
B-2
B-21

GBR
Washington
Valiant
Vulcan
TSR-2
Victor

DEU
Ju-390
Ju-287

RUS
M-4
Tu-16
Tu-22
M-50
Tu-95
Tu-22M
Tu-160

ITA
Nuh-uh

FRA
Mirage IV

JPN
Nada

ISR
Zilch

SWE
Zip

CHN
H-6

… a pretty unbalanced list, many nations won’t have an option. That said, we’ve got no idea how the Strategic Bombing mission type/game mode will work, and it’s likely that the gameplay will require a variety of vehicle types on each team (as all modes in War Thunder do) so it’s not like nations without Strategic Bombers won’t be able to participate.

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Missing TSR 2 there, think something between a Vulcan and a Tornado, (which tbf is where it sits chronologically).

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sleeping on the B-32 smh
forgot the A-3 and FB-111, and B-50
also B-45 and A-5
there are easily like 3 B-52 we could get too lol

nothing really wrong with list being unbalanced though

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would be great to see XB-70 too if doing prototypes.

funny enough, the BAC TSR 2 first flew only 6 days after the XB-70

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