Should Hawk 200 RDA be put back to 11.0 in air RB?
Yes
No
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Reason: it is subsonic compared to the 11.3 JA37C which also has skyflash DF and has a gun, which the hawk 200 doesnt have. the JA37C is a supersonic with 1300kph on the deck capability while the hawk 200 maxes out at 1030 at 6 meters altitude
you clearly havent used this platform, because if you had you would know that at a launch speed of 600-800kmh like the Hawk 200 usually cruises at, makes the Skyflash a very easy missile to avoid by just pulling a little, in my experience this has happened half the time when firing it.
the SHAR frs1 is faster and has guns, meaning that if the missiles fail you have a backup, the hawk 200 cruising at 600-800kmh the majority of the time, does not have the ideal speed to fire sky flash missiles, this results in them being avoidable by just manoeuvring, not just by flying low, and as for the aim9Ls they can just be flared, since the majority of aircraft at even 10.0 have flares to counter them, and again no backup with guns if that happens.
Gaijin’s argument for this is that the aircraft we have are prototypes, meaning the underneath is slightly differently laid out, this means the gun pod “cant be fitted” I can sort of see where they are coming from, as from observation I can see the hawk 200s we have in game are slightly different looking to production ones, but I seriously do hope someone finds definitive proof that it could carry it, for now I guess we just have to suffer.
Edit: typo correction
I do wonder if it would be OTT to have a slightly lower GRB BR, make them distinctly GRB suitable maybe. Sure, improved radar, but you got the phantoms at 10.7 in GRB with 4 skyflash missiles.
Air RB it will be hard to balance fairly, GRB? Might just be a decent role for it.
i dont know about the hawk family…feel a little confused…
so irl is there 3 different hawks and there’s two of them being added into the game this version? and the third type is a cannoned RDA?
or… in fact RDA the prototype itself should have a cannon and production is just the same?