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

Come to think of it the list seems rather small so maybe it’s not the full list and cropped. Then again there’s the other leaker which might have different stuff on it, though I don’t know if they posted theirs.

It’d have to be either F2A ---- JPN or XF2A ---- JP since it’s one letter off otherwise

Then again, it could be F-2A ---- JP? Since the last leaks had EF-2000 instead of EF2000 so maybe they do dashes sometimes

That’s Tiger PT3, loaned to France for the testing of PARS 3. HAC was already cancelled by this point.

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Source that HAC was canceled by that point? Or do you mean the decision to procure them did not go through? That is different from Tiger HAC remaining in testing versus canceling the decision to put them into service.

HAC was never built, France only tested PT3 which is different from what HAC was to be. HAC was to have a 30 mm cannon with 150 rounds, half of the HAP. But it was cancelled in the late 90s (I don’t have an exact date) and it was decided instead to proceed with a modified HAP.

I hope premium Ariete means armor fix)

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Then what exactly are we looking at here?

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That’s PT3, same helicopter as in the picture I linked

I think everyone knew F/A-18s were coming at this point but I wonder if they’ll just add it to US only as indicated here or to a couple of nations at once.

That’s a good question. If US only then what other planes are the nations that didn’t receive a plane last update going to get

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Lets be honest here, you’re definitely naive if you think gaijins adding the F/A-18 to just the US

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Well usually the list puts other nations on there, take the last one for the December update

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See the EF-2000

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Bare minimum sweden also gets one

EF2000 is easy to say those 3 nations get them because its the mainstay of those 3 nations

Using that same list as an example it only listed japan for the M44, which multiple nations got

That’s true.

They’re basically inconsistent, probably on purpose

HARMs are not so useful against smaller SPAA, they’re better against radar installations.

Adding HARMs wouldn’t really upset anything imo, they’d really just serve to broaden the amount of objectives we can have in a given match.

There are 2 reasons imo:

  1. We’re supposed to be getting new SPAA at top tier (according to CMCD#4)
  2. Both the SWIP and the Hornet could get HARMs

If we’re getting new SPAA, that likely means we’re getting stationary radar installations. Those would be good targets for HARMs.

Absolutely no one would be surprised if most nations an F-18.

US, Japan, Britain, Sweden and Germany could get one.

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I’ve discussed this before, but in terms of likelihood:

  • USA - Guaranteed to get the A, A+, C, etc. (not necessarily all in the same patch, but eventually)
  • Sweden - Guaranteed to get the Finnish F-18C and/or F/A-18C
  • Britain - Wildcard, up to Gaijin whether we see the Aussie/Canadian Hornets
  • Germany - Wildcard, up to Gaijin whether they add the Swiss Hornet (the asset should be ready though, it was leaked like 3 times)
  • Japan - Unlikely (imo), since Malaysia isn’t declared a subtree (yet), although I would prefer it going to Japan than to China
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