They said they would give top tier air a boost using AIM-120D, not specifically the aircraft providing the boost.
And also now other aircraft are being considered to get AIM-120D this update which makes it more apparent that they were specifically saying the missile would provide the boost.
If the F comes then there need to be one added to Britain then via Australia
Would it be a boost if it was a better missile but then worse platform?
F-16C PoBIT with AIM-120D would still do the opposite though. It’s barely 14.3 worthy. They already tried to move the F/A-18E up to 14.7 and decided against it, possibly due to backlash, an F-16C PoBIT might fare even worse at 14.3-14.7 than that thing (as much as I hate to say it as a Hornet hater and F-16 lover).
If they really want to help top tier US, the F-16 aint it. I refuse to believe that the people in charge of balance are ignorant enough to think otheriwse.
tbf 28 ir guided glide bombs would be pretty potent.
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For example AIM-120C-7, AAM-4B and I-Derby ER
too bad they never put double racks on the outer station and made 6 pack racks for the wings and centerline
Pretty potent?
That would be fricken busted
Dont worry, people will defend it by reminding everybody about how its not Kh38 (because that somehow makes it better)
I think people will more likely use the Gripen E as an example, which can carry 16x Spice 250 + 2x AGM-65.
But yeah, if they add GBU-53 they should definitely limit the amount.
when?
I don’t play enough top tier CAS to know for sure, but wouldn’t you want to drop the Mavericks so you can take ARHs with BOL pods?
Limiting yourself to just 80 CMs and only 2 Sidewinders seems a bit counterproductive, even in a CAS loadout
It was so sad that they gave us Elde instead of ItO-15…
It really depends on how the battle is going. Normally I’d also rather have the ARH missiles instead of the mavs, but if you are sure that there won’t be any air up you can get away with taking the mavs.
Fair, I suppose
This kind of trade-off probably won’t matter when people start comparing the Gripens A2G loadout to a potential F-15 or F/A-18 with GBU-53s, as people usually just look at the two numbers and nothing else lol
We probably won’t see that ever just like we probably won’t see another Finnish vehicle in the TT
That’s it I’m banning D*nmark from getting added in anything more than premiums and event vics…
Tough stuff, we’ve had more Danish and Norwegian content for gap fillers than the current F*nnish subtree currently does