The Hawk is added because it’s where the Indonesian techtree is, but Indonesia doesn’t operate the J-10CE. The J-10CE (and J-10 in general) is only operated by China and Pakistan. Both of those nations are placed together, so no other nation would get a J-10.
Indonesia was considering to buy J-10B, but right now it seems they are renegotiating F-15ID (F-15EX) instead. With Indonesia it’s very hard to tell what they are buying until it’s paid, signing a contract doesn’t mean anything just yet (see Mirage 2000 or Su-35).
So it’s too soon to assume such vehicles will be added when Indonesia might never have them.
The Hawk 209 is not a “copy paste”, its a different variant. Its different from the Hawk 200 and RDA prototypes. This is a unique variant of the aircraft that Britain did not use, but made for export for nations such as Indonesia (which is part of the Japanese tree).
This would explain why there are no photos of the RDA with a gunpod. As we already said, we welcome evidence of the RDA with a gunpod / guns for consideration.
I feel like “in the future” is a fake claim at this point as if we look the R class that was added a year ago this update and no counterpart has been added to the UK
I feel a export hawk could be added to the UK this update as a counterpart similarly to how the mosquitos were added to 2 nations recently
As we already mentioned, other more unique ships were of a higher priority to add to the British tree over the Revenge class, with Britain already having one of the larger selection of unique BBs in game already. It still remains possible that a Revenge class may appear in the future, but its not an immediate priority.
Britain had two of its own Hawk variants added first last major, with other content already planned to come this major.
I’m afraid its a little more complex than just that. Content for major updates is planned quite far in advance. There are existing plans already set for this major, which is hot on the heels of a previous major in which Britain already just received two Hawk 200 variants. There are also other factors to consider such as the current number of premiums Britain has or has had in an area of the tree, verses for example Japan.
More often than not, there can also be other differences to consider even between minor variants. Weaponry, cosmetic differences, avionics, systems etc etc. Its rarely as simply as expected being “just make a new skin and its done”. There is more to consider than just that.
With that said, if there is a wide demand for something, the its best to make a feedback topic when the update becomes available for testing when we are collecting feedback on it. We will naturally be looking at that time for feedback and suggestions on the update, and considerations for future updates.
Is there any perticular reason why the RDA must be the prototype version, and not just the production variant with that bulge removed to eliminate this issue?
Seems like the devs want to be able to add a gunpod but are dying on this hill of it needing to be the Hawk 200 RDA Prototype
Because then it would not be the Hawk 200 RDA British prototype. But an export variant from another nation. Which would not go in the research tree. There is no British production variant.
There are no plans to change the RDA into something it was not. Thats why its tabbed in a folder with the standard Hawk 200.
