It also had some of the best control in a dogfight in the world for a long time. Still having few aircraft designed for dogfighting capable of relibily defeating it
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The FA.2 even went against Rafales in close combat and it was apparently a very “fruity” fight as Paul Trembling stated.
The fact that the Shars where engaged in prolong fighting with a plane as insane as the Rafale instead of straight up being curb stomped I think says enough.
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Yes, they look the same yet like 70% of all parts where redesigned, and from the intakes forward it was a completely different aircraft with different (better) flying qualities.
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You made a mistake. I think you swapped Rafale with Shar by accident
Lol not quite, the Harriers where very capable but by the time the 2000s came around they where in need of further improvements already.
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Im very disappointed the devs have not addressed the Sea Harriers gunsight and EEGS this update.
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This just felt super clean. Over the new Falklands map too.
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In my humble opinion, EEGS should be implemented on all aircraft that have at least a radio sight. If the radio sight is not capable of only measuring distance and does not affect the gyro sight, then why was it installed on the aircraft at all?
Agreed, hunters, sabres and all that lot would have had a very primitive lead indicator.
However the Radar tracking present on later EEGS gunsights where much more informative to the ballistics computer and with a simple input of approximate wingspan, very accurate aiming data can be feed to the HUD.
Early planes did not have a HUD of this type.
Hello, are there any plans to fix the Harriers? Or any of their avionics this major?
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Very nicely done
Thank you woulda been even cooler with the real VIFF.
Smin, “No. There is no plan to buff anything regarding the Harriers and they are British so they must be nerfed every update”
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Pretty much all they did this dev was remove the gunsight from the hud
At least they made sure that the Badger isn’t viable
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Tbh I don’t really like it that much anyways.
No real loss for me. They need to fix the Scimi and harrier as those 2 vehicles where actually made to compliment each other.
I was looking forward to it but seeing it has a poor round, bad optics and bad traverse. I’m just gonna spend my time on the Harriers but we do still need a good autocannon light tank/IFV like the Rooikat 35/ZT3
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Yeah the Scimitar EM 235 would fill that need.
Passive armour additions BGTI thermals and a LRF.
Is that the Mk.2?
I would like the Scimitar Mk.2 though. It has things like APFSDS with high pen, good thermals and is still ratty but more like a guinea pig than a rat
Nope the scimi 2 is different, slightly less stealthy and less combat focused.
The Scimi mk2 was a sultan hull with a scimi turret to give better ied protection.
The LEP or Scimitar Environmental Mitigation 235 was done much before the Scimi 2 and was the first scimis to get the Cummings engine and all the new kit.