Did you know that South Africa has more vehicles than Japan or Israel?))))))
It’s very stupid that SA is a sub tree.
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I specified timeframe from F-14 retirement to F-35C introduction lol.
Where only fighters would’ve been hornet and super hornet
We could be the sole users of block 4 F-35 and F-35 with AN/APG-85 for some time
I’m genuinely curious, never heard of this before.
So it wasn’t like US flying MiG for information and training?
I can Name all the Chinese Strategic / Psuedo Strategic Bombers.
The H-6 Family
Tu-4 / Tu-4 Turbprop
SH-5
B-24M
PB4Y-2
TB-3 MP
There are also many frontline bombers.
Nope. 20 more 10.3 SPAA for you
nah, we need a decent SPAAG for about 8.3
Specifically one with 35mm autocannons, of course
Nothing Morvran said is wrong.
But he did leave out 2 things
- The A+ you mentioned has the same avionics (radar and stuff) as a C, so it has AMRAAM, not SARH like base model A
- The E has more powerful engines, but is significantly heavier. The engines do not make up for this, so the E has worse flight performance
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I am aware of the Hornet’s acceleration (I have even heard of some accounts saying that a clean C could beat an F-15 to supersonic). The issue is it only has that acceleration until it hits Mach.
According to this GAO report page 30 (https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-96-98.pdf) the C model bleeds a whopping 54 knots a second (100kph per sec). So I have my doubts on it being a great energy fighter.
Spoiler
And personally, I would throw out most of the numbers for the Super Hornet in that GAO report, as they seem unrealistically bad.
As for always losing to an F-15E in ARB, I feel it would be the other way around, as the F-18 will always have to fight on the F-15’s terms due to the large top speed and high speed acceleration differences.
Maybe an F-15E with full CFT, and PW-220 engines on the verge of replacement
Imo coastal should be allowed to join bluewater battles (for people who want to do torpedo attacks), but a separate mode for coastal only would be nice, maybe even some pve-oriented mode, considering a low playerbase of coastal.
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Yeah, I’ve never heard anything concrete on that, just internet hearsay.
Energy retention when compared to other aircraft needs to be one of two things:
Same G-load, OR same speed.
Same speed reads out degrees per second.
Same g-load reads out speed loss per second.
What would targets be though?
Sounds questionable to say the least
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Its actually even funnier. Say someone grinds the entire US coastal through sweat and blood, reaches USS Coolbaugh (300k RP + the rest of the TT) and finds out that his ship is stricly worse in all regards than USS Aylwin (like 5k RP, r ank 1). ON THE SAME 4.0 BR. Not even gonna bring up premium BR blackhole (cough cough Moffet 5.0 and every match is +1). Cherry on top - same spawnpoint. What happens then?
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I would gladly buy a high tier premium coastal to boost my way through the grind, but its 6k GE for something that is overall worse than an equivalent BR premium destroyer that would cost about 250-500 GE.
They really need to do something with coastal high tier
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Ye, and the best part is that what you just described is pretty much exactly what we had before coastal/bluewater split. Like when we had karl something, premium german DD as THE grinder and alike. Cruisers and above were a mistake.
“But being able to start with big ships will attract more people/make more people happy/…”
Well, those people are currently playin like 2v2 + 28 bots. Are you sure it would have been worse otherwise…?
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Fortifications, mg points, AI vessels.
My perfect coastal mode would be something like a harbour assault for certain amount of players, something like a dungeon-equivalent from MMORPGs with bosses in a form of big ships and some unique rewards, unlimited respawns, but hard enough enemies and leaderboard with fastest games. Example of the map would be Valletta port. Though it’s maybe too much of my weird imagination 😆
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