Squadron Vehicles: F-117A Nighthawk and Stealth Technology!

Thanks to me!

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Hey i just pointed out double standards
yes i may have been i bit provocative, but someone needs to point it out somehow
Im fine with the F-117, in fact i always wanted it, however im just suprised that people only hate russian vehicles.

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Did I miss the cruise missile ? Only thing I saw is gbu 39/40 gliding bomb… Which is a 110kg bomb, hardly comparable to kh38 in explosive and speed.

Ls500 on j10 and jf17 are quite similar but far more explosive in those

It’s a gimmick vehicle. They made it available to all by being freely unlockable without spending a penny and without having to grind through the entire US air tree, and you’re complaining?

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Will start the Squadron grind as soon as I finish the japanese F-5 with the Fox-3s

something that drops two bombs and has no guns/missiles/counter measures and flys slow enough to drive miss daisy is op? ok…

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Some interesting bit about the F-117A during the First Gulf War:

  1. To prevent any Iraqi SAM system to even track the F-117s,the US launched a massive swarm of ADM-141 decoy missile in order to preemptively alert the radar sites and to better conduct SEAD operations before the F-117 struck their targets
  2. The F-117 departed from the US and did a 19hrs non-stop flight in complete radio silence (except the only times they needed refueling in mid-air) to reach Baghdad
  3. The F-117 was the only aircraft in the US Arsenal to had the IOC to carry and launch GBU-27 Paveway III Bunker-buster bomb. This limited availability of bunker-buster munitions prompted the US to develop the GBU-28 which is basically a reshaped 203-mm howitzer barrel filled with explosive and with fins in the back and a seeker in the front
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I also think in the current state of the game it may only be of limited use for tank plinking in ground battles.

What would be interested to see is if they are visible to e.g. airfield defense SAM’s, especially in Sim. But considering that those Rolands can snipe you perfectly well already now without radar on, I’d guess not even that would be a viable way to use the Nighthawk.

I’ve said so before: WT really needs to get away from the WW2 style ground targets and implement point targets. So far there’s not much that makes a LGB better suited to engage any ground target in WT that a dumb bomb can not do and do better.

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I think its cool that its coming into the the game, i just dont think its going to be all that great in current WT setting. Like the AC-130 gunship would be fun as all hell but i dont see it having a place to be effective. I could be wrong though and could be lots of fun to play. going to wait for the test server and give it a look.

Time to bunker-bust some Iraqi bunkers in the desert 😈

They should have really put this in over the MQ-1… just my thouhgts.

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I could imagine it to be something in Sim, but that would especially also need a completely new level of teamplay, away from all players being just competition for targets to really aid each other in various roles (in this case, really providing cover for those juicy, lumbering targets…).

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Please let me know when you find targetable bunkers in WT. Atm they’re more elusive than any F-117… ;-)

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yea i think that would fit more in a mission style play rather than a pvp setting.

The teaser of the F-117 had the real-life depiction of a First Gulf War land campaign,this means that we can probably expect a Kuwait/South Iraq map.

Pls Gaijoob i want my recreation of the First Gulf War

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We would need some new type of mission for this plane to be viable. Also does anybody know when the dev stream is?

should be in just a few hours

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I wondered about this.

Is there a known real life case where F-117’s were actually operating in daylight against tanks?

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Considering the amount of sorties and that the Iraqi SAM system was crippled in the late stages of the war, it’s entirely doable

Sadly we don’t have documents to prove it other than our assumptions because “muh confidential information” ,but i think that the Nighthawk struck some tank battalions under the Sun

It’d be really nice with a cutoff point somewhere (or slight overlap) where older bombers and planes has the current base bombing system but above say BR 10(?) they implement a new system of bunkers, hangars, MLRS sites, etc that each have different “health” and requiring specific ordinance to defeat the bunkers and equivalents.
It would make strikers and bombers way more interesting to play as well.

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