Two months.
i’m wondering to how many more updates they will delay the F-2 for.
I sure hope it comes in march with the F-18, Gripen, J-10B etc… Otherwise Japan will be the only nation without a top tier plane.
I predict now MiG-29SMT izdeliye 9-19 lack R-73M
The ultimate fulcrum for soviet/russia tech tree
I suppose MiG-35S battle rating 14.7 or 15.0 minimum
But russian air force service ?
After MiG-29SMT (9-19) ?
MiG-29M2 armed with R-74M and R-77-1, right ?
It’s slightly lighter, but the engines are the same since they were also upgraded to 220E (equal to the 220s in the F-15C).
Not enough to be as good at F-15E, but enough to be slightly superior to the current F-15C.
Is that a British vehicle candidate?!
Laughs in British
I can easily see an F/A-18A limted to AIM-7Ms as a prem or squadron at like 13.0 for the US. I can also just as easily see the F-14D being one or the other as well.
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F-14D would be good as a squadron vehicle but I hope it doesn’t come as premium. We don’t need another of the best version of an aircraft locked as a premium. (F-4S) Also the best MiG-21 in the game is the a premium. (Bison)
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How is the F-4J worse than the F-4S? I thought they were the same.
F-4J doesn’t get the manoeuvring slats that the F-4S has got which makes it worse in turning performance.
It’s not a massive difference but it is enough to be noticeable and make the F-4S the better Phantom.
Also the F-4S gets a digital HUD which is a massive improvement over the F-4J in Sim battles
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Thanks for the answer, all my life I thought that they were completely identical.
An premium Hornet would sell so hard
Anything to get me a pre AMRAAM Hornet in game, but probs not on release, maybe in December like with the SU-33
Honestly a premium F/A-18A wouldn’t be that bad. Would be around 13.0 - 13.3 with Sparrows + 9M’s.
If like the past leak says and Gaijin are skipping the F/A-18A and going straight for the C then it could come as a premium.
I personally think it should have come as a squadron vehicle alongside the Su-33 which would have paired nicely, both naval aircraft, Fox 1 and 2 limited, and similar missile counts. Then in the future get the Su-30+F/A-18C together for the tech trees.
13.0 as it gets 8 missiles at most, either 6 AIM-9 + 2 AIM-7, or 2 AIM-9 + 4 AIM-7, so it’s objectively worse than the F-15A, more comparable to the F-16A for Belgium, both are 13.0
If the next update is naval fighter focused we could potentially see the Rafale M too, and here’s me wishing for the F-14D Super Tomcat but I really don’t know what’s gonna happen to it now
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It’s not such a powerful plane, just an improved MIG-29, so won’t be that high, 13.7 or 14.0 would be fine, even with R-77-1 since its flight performance is still much worse than things like Typhoon. so as MIG-29M/M2. though, R-73M or R-74 is another hard problem, don’t know how it will influence the game, so I ignore it in this situation.
if it is naval fighter focused then for Britain I hope for:
- SHars to finally be finished
- British ramped carrier maybe? Even if its just for test flight
- Sea-Vixen FAW1 with a gunpod for the TT
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Is there anything to actually indicate it being naval fighter focused beyond the Hornet & Su30 in that decal?
Maybe we could see the Nimrod that was passed to developers added in a naval focused update for Britain too given it’s job as a maritime patrol aircraft
it would be a laugh, but the only way it would be addable is with its 8x ASRAAM.
Whilst that would be hilarious, it might be a tad on the OP side