Uhhh- The AMRAAM armed Hornet will come but I have no idea and I don’t know planes.
I just know at one point F-18A couldn’t use AMRAAMs and needed a radar upgrade to do that.
The thing is Gaijin wants to add said fancy missile in one of the next 2 majors that leaves the next update as the only time for the AMRAAm-liss Hornets.
I only know this because the Hornt was relevant to a project I’m working on.
There’s C yk
Excuse me?
F/A-18C Hornet
Would be a shame to ignore the Hornet in favour of Super Hornet. The latter would also be more advanced in the weaponry it carries.
E and F are Super Hornets
A, B, C, D are Legacy Hornets
Both have intricate flight models. That’s quite literally it.
The F-15A is still broken beyond belief, the F-16 still has horrible oscillating with the Instructor and all SAS modes, as well as horrible stall characteristics.
The Su-27 is just… It’s an attempt at an Su-27.
The introduction of fully moving canards on an already iffy flight model that hasn’t been finalized is a terrible idea. Simple as.
The Su-33 is a combination of the T-10S and T-10K development. There is no equivalency between them, it’s a direct successor of the Su-27. It’s like saying the M1A2 SEPv3 is just an XM-1 with 21st century tech.
Seeing the fantasy flight models we already have in game, also with fully moveable canards in case of Gripen I’d say that underscores my point since further inaccuracies in that regard wont matter for air RB.
SU-27K is the T-10 as far as I’m aware. Production SU-33 have a higher thrust to weight and improved maneuverability while teh airframe itself is heavier.
The comparison with M1 is flawed.
SU-33 is a SU-27 adapted for aircraft carrier duty. While later M1 or Leopard 2 variants are straight upgrades of the existing platform with unchanged purpose.
Then we have 3 F-18 single seat variants that could be introduced easily.
3?
Gaijin can make it 4
F/A-18A aka “F/A-18A Early”
F/A-18A+
F/A-18C
F/A-18E
Meaning 3 without touching the Super Hornet which should certainly be introduced with more advanced weaponry than we have currently.
Realistically the F-18A “early” needs to come in the next update for it to not be weird.
I’ll say it again Gaijin has confirmed that AMRAAMs are coming in one of the next 2 updates. Said F-18A “early” can’t use them.
So unless Gaijin is planning on not adding that version or adding it after more advanced versions come next update is really the last time for it.
But in the end, this is just my two cents on the Legacy Hornets.
Tho F/A-18A+ would be very bad, like very very bad. It can barely break mach with 2 AIM-9 and 2 AIM-7, let alone doing that with 8 AIM-120 and two AIM-9
Watch the F-18A “early” be an event vehicle because gaijin. They’ll either do that or the F-20 sadly. If they’re smart they’d do an event YF-17, but I doubt they’d do that.
Nah they got to do an F-16A (Early).
Oh god please no
Wouldn’t be surprised if we do get a tt jet for the air reward for the event lol
Speaking of shouldn’t we see a devblog ether tomorrow or Tuesday abit it ?
With our recent leaks, it’s looking like the F-20 is the prize for the upcome air event.
Because it is either that or a US premium as I remember hearing that both(premiums and events) share a file tag or something like that.
The leak about it being a premium is fake, the leak that it’s coming is real. It screams event prize to me but it really needs to be in the tree.
Well the F-5 platform has been heavily used as premium/events in the past so maybe.