Sensors help, but good CAS is more about the pilots and communications with the JTACs than anything else. The handling of the Harrier allowed it to do things even the F-35 likely wouldnt try. (and I cant iamgien the cost of maintaining an F-35 after flying through dust storms) Weaponary is much the same as on the F-35B in RAF service, at least currently. But for things like Troops in contact, the Harrier could provide rocket attacks. Not something I see many F-35s doing.
Like I said, Yes, F-35 could probably do somethings just as well. But it isnt and shouldnt be automatically considered the best at everything just because .
In Some things like SEAD, its world class (soon to be perfected by the Spear-3 :P ). Stealth and a good radar make it good at BVR combat, but I do wonder how long till stealth becomes largely nullified (i.e if everyone has stealth and counter-stealth tech, does it really do much?) and stealth comes with major costs in terms of loadout, witrh it carrying a lot less missiles than the Typhoon for example.
if the CAPTOR-E can largely mitigate the stealth advantage of an F-35 for example (iirc, its counter stealth was a key feature) then is a Typhoon firing off 6-8 Meteors better than an F-35 firing off 4x Aim-120Ds?
looking forward though, it could be 4-6 meteors on the F-35
and stealth is always going to be more survivable than non-stealth even with anti stealth tech since all that does is reduce the advantage given by stealth, not eliminate it
So, what will be new battleship next major update?
My expectation is
Great Britain(who has still at least three available modelling right now in War Thunder PC and Mobile)
Japan
Italy(as these two nations didn’t get anyting at Feburary to March?)
Thats if gaijin lets them have meteors, remember the Gripens dont get all their weapons even if they can use them. Gaijin will add what they want but you know its the US we’re talking about so actually its very likely you guys just need to scream and cry and you’ll get meteors.
we are talking about RAF ones specifically. though US ones could get meteors since they are probably going to be tested on those first after all, and with lack of official info on AIM-260 might be necessary for long range option
Tested doesn’t nean anything again Gripen example but counterpoint being the US cries and gaijin gives them whatever they want because they weren’t meta for 1 patch.
Now it wouldn’t be surprising if Meteor was worse than Aim 260’s because they cant make their favorite air nation.
GRB has Revenge class, KGV, Vanguard as modelling, so yeah maybe one of them.
Anyway, as Gaijin implies they will give iconical battleship this year, I think now GRB will face lack of penetration while boast best of survivability, which is contradictory to most other nations.
Swedish air Tax means Meteor wont have any fuel and just sits on our pylons. Ultimate way to finally kill off sweden air like they’ve been doing for years
Bonus note, ASRAAM is gonna be bootleg SRAAM with Aim 9B seeker lol
Tbf wouldn’t suprise me. We already have US players claiming swedish bias since the Worst 14.0 is apparently better than the US F/A-18C but america mains try not to get the worst winrates challenge is literally impossible for most of the base bombing parasite fighters i see at top tier.
Where is this happening? I must laugh at these people…
The only “Swedish Bias” in this game is the amount of heavily armored Leopard 2s they have at top tier. Meanwhile Germany only has one of their MANY possible variants. (cough 2A6EX, PSO-VT, TVM-MAX, 2A7+, etc.)
Oh i agree with the leos its insane as for the F-18 look no further than the subreddit and youtube. Also a very common spot to find parasite players who only know base bombing and have top tier jets…
Is it the same trend as Spanish Hornet? There isn’t any sign of Brazilian, Spanish or Turkish stuff coming to Italian TT, unless it has some relations to Italy like Turkish T-129 (Mangusta derivative) and F-104S TAF (export F-104S), Spanish VRCC (Centauro export variant), AMX A-1 (Brazilian variant of AMX joint venture).
So far only vehicles directly unrelated to Italy are coming to its TT from 2 nations: Hungary and Romania.
Brazilian Gripen E for USA claim I don’t understand either.
Brazilian Gripen E is joke referring to when the Gripen first came out and there was a post to give the US a Brazilian Gripen, same deal with Italy prior to Hungary. It was more so me poking fun at the US players though
Main problem with this, why would casual FPS players join WT infantry. For example BF is easy to get into, why would a person who enjoys modern FPS settings play WT, where they have to grind for weeks or even months through ww2/cold war filler to get to the modern infantry they want to play.