ICE is fun because it has an amazing missile kit, very good radar/RWR with okayish flight performance at 13.0 which makes it pretty much op in 12.0-13.0 bracket.
Actually compare to Tornado F3 late and AV8B+ it has much better flight performance.
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Actually it is missing 20, it could steal the bomb racks or maverick racks from the AV8B NA and put BOL 9Ls on their
in normal use 4x BOL is the max and 6 AAMs at best. wouldnt be natural to be any further, from what i remember from a conversation with gunjob on this it isnt technicaly feasable at all to hijack the remaining hardpoint but i may be misremembering
Sounds about right logically. I doubt in combat a strike Harrier would ever need to carry 6 or 8 AIM-9s on a mission, F15s and Sea Harriers would likely do that job in Cold War gone hot situation
Last time the RAF used the harrier 2 they werent even using A2A missiles as it was Afghanistan. the 25mm aden gunpods were worthless as they never worked so were almost never fitted
Realistically (at least british ones) could run 6 ASRAAM missiles, 4x BOL rails, 2x aden 25mm gunpods, sniper targeting pod and two guided bombs at once. However its going to be stupidly heavy while doing that.
Hopefully we get that with GR9a at a 14.7 rank 9 (still will be hammered by the F-15 from 12.7 tho lol)
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So the T-pod can actually go on the centre belly pylon. Always see the t-pod to the side with Harrier’s
yes. but i think this was only done with sniper. no clue for TIALD or lightning
would make the T10 and GR7 much fairer for their BR
Only American Harriers did the TGP go center line
Gr7 and Gr9 it is always where the guns go
Photo above it sniper on the gun position
meh within gaijins own rules we could get away with it. Would like to have another gun to do no damage with if they ever added worthwhile CAS ordinance that needs a pod
No
AV-8Bs and GR7 and GR9 are quite different
I would rather have my center line terma pod anyway
were getting radar on falcon when it wasnt ever fitted. gaijins done weirder
more countermeasures that arent gimped like BOL would be perfect
It was fitted that is why we are getting it
because gaijin is stupid + illusion of balance
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E.g. Kh 38 and Brimstone
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And the latest Sabres see Magic 1s… Gaijin make it make sense
When I fly my Mirage 3C I wanna see neither subsonic flareless gunfighters, nor kinetically near-undefeatable ir missiles on planes faster than me
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