here fixing airfields and AA which cant be done by landing
That doesn’t mention anything about landing/not landing
but unless using a heli landing to help Broken AA isn’t possible
What the hell do you mean?
You can land near AA sites, they aren’t covered by trees all around.
C-5 is bigger than b-52 which is already hard to control currently planes like b-52 and tu95 are the closest weight and size you get of cargo planes so landing cargo planes on AA fields with little space wont end well
You do realize there are much smaller cargo planes, right?
like V-22 and CH-47 yes
Ch47 carrying the AA dropping off at AA fields = peak
Yeah but in general you’d need to add several hundred meters long strips next to all AA/depot… position for even just a C130 to land and take off. I just don’t really see planes having to land to drop cargo. Maybe helis tho, but then you’d have a balancing issue compared to cargo planes which would be faster, with more cargo, and not needing to land
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256x256 BVVD has said so that means space for bigger air ports maybe a full sized airport
They’ll probably have you land on airfields to help repair them after they take some damage, or perform airdrops onto destroyed airfields to repair the runway to then land and repair the rest of the airfield.
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We’ll have to see what they do to the maps and how they plan to implement cargo aircraft. Larger AA sites could have STOL strips next to them in the future.
Well, we don’t know what cargo aircraft they plan to add in general or how they are going to work. If they are just AI vehicles, there is very little that has to be done to implement them in a functional way.
But you’d still need to place strips next to every asset that can be reloaded. It’s not really a matter of map size, just of the sheer number of assets on the map. Also, for overall balance, having cargo planes landing every time would make them highly vulnerable to a low penetrating jet, especially with IIR missiles which probably will be added this year, which will become huge threats to those unarmed and landed planes
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They said there will be two maps, not that the current one will get expanded
I could see this happening, especially for the long range SAM sites and the EWR sites too.
But the shorter range SAM sites and maybe depots you’ll likely need to use helicopters or airdrops.
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Won’t ECM have an even greater benefit for Gen 5 than for 4.5, 4.5+
Why are people convinced ECM is a requirement to add before stealth comes to WT
each team should have an airport the size of Edwards airforce base with lots of health instead of 5 small airfields
ECM would be needed for next gen missiles, the planes themselves would be fine, as long as they are limited to the current missile tech we have
well both benefit from it but 4.5+ doesn’t have stealth so they would need it to stay competitive against the stealth
I thought the far back airfields in NE were the giant airfields?
Like what we saw in the April Fools run of NE.