I don’t think the Jaguar, or any other nuke planes for top tier ground RB are suitable nuke planes for 12.7 Ground RB. First off, poor flight performance, and pretty slow. Second off, you don’t even get countermeasures. You’re basically guaranteed to get shot down when you get a nuke if an enemy plane is in the sky, unless they’re not very good or for some reason don’t target you. I think at the bare minimum you should at least get countermeasures but that’s just me. Anyways, lmk if you agree and I hope they update it so you have a fighting chance when nuking because its a pretty big achievement, especially in top tier.
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New Nuke carriers is planned to be added into the future, and there are few threads discussing this same subject.
I hope so because for a while i feel like the nukes have just been super stressful for the reasons listed
At higher tiers, above 10.3 I don’t even bother going for a Nuke, I recommend you the same because the rewards are always the same.
it’s just an extra bit of fun. last time i got one though it was going to save the game and help us win but as soon as i spawned in, i had 5 jets coming after me and i evaded some but they turned around a chased me down. i ultimately died to a missile because the jets have zero countermeasures which is ridiculous.
I doesn’t seems to be any joyful by the event you described. I mean, how is this fun? Take a Nuke carrier, fly normally and be intercepted by five jets as you said.
its joyful when its a clutch moment like, your team is about to lose but you fly a nuke plane in and save the game. Just the big problem is that all the odds are against you. After fighting hard all game and finally getting the nuke, the battle has really just begun because as soon as your wheels come off the ground, the siren sounds off and everyone hunts you in far superior jets the can wipe you out with ease. It just completely defeats the purpose of getting a nuke.
Whats needed is for nuke planes to be more of a spectacle as well as better. An Avro Vulcan would be a great replacement for the canberra as the nuke carrier, at top tier maybe a B2 or F35 with a nuclear payload would be good.
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yes i agree but Gaijin seems to want the nuke planes to be planes from the tech trees so i couldn’t see that happening but it def would be very cool to see a Vulcan. My point is there needs to be something better than a 10.3 BR jet as the nuke plane when its going against 14.0 fighter jets.
Tbh a strike eagle would probably be faster than both, making it pretty well suited for low alt nuking, which I why I’d have that over a B-2
the strike eagle would be a phenomenal nuke plane but i highly doubt they would do that
F35 will be added there isnt really anything else left and its a crime that we havent got a vulcan bomber in game yet, its a beautiful and legendary bomber and easily in my top three most beloved aircraft with concorde and the spitfire.
The F35 from about 11.0 would counteract the powercreep pretty good too
Maybe strike eagle for US, rafale for France, and I think tornadoes were cleared for nukes but idk about typhoons
typhoon is cleared to use B61 nukes
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its a grey area with typhoon because politics but the snail can just use the F35 as that is fully capable of glassing any target it likes and is fully cleared to
Would need to have it’s radar and sensors disabled then, or maybe just have it exclusively carry the nuke
the typhoon would be amazing. The nuke plane needs to be able to compete with the jets its going to be matched against am i right?
Idk, I guess for eft rafale and f15e sure, but an F-35 CANNOT be allowed to fire AAM if it’s used as a nuke carrier soon
I mean the B29 isnt really able to do much against a meteor or sabre but at least it has a chance