While I’m well aware that the loadouts of these aircraft are work in progress, and I’m aware that missiles are often given to planes for balancing reasons, I have to point out that the new Swiss hornets have a lot of stuff they shouldn’t, for example
Aim9L’s
Aim9M’s
Any and all air to ground ordinance
yes lets just remove everything from it and have a really bad overtiered plane…
however Gaijin sometimes gives planes Weapons that it can carry and use but is not in service for that Nation one example is the Aim-9J on the German F-4F Early/Late it was only tested with it once in the US but never bought by Germany
The Swiss hornets had the ability to carry air to ground ordinance physically removed, I wouldn’t bring it up otherwise, also it would still be better than the Finnish one.
again can u proof that?
he can’t because it is not true. i post some source in the R&R thread a while ago
All of my info comes from the Swiss hornet thread.
Also you replied to both of my post in the same way, are you just here to play devils advocate?
Swiss Hornets had A/G capabilities, but never used nor the hardpoints were ever there. Fact is, and its documented, as part of the Upg25 even GPS guided ammunition was added to the electronics.
The ground targeting radar was purely decoration in terms of offensive use.
not realy, i am asking for your sources. If you claim stuff you need to be able to back it up yourself as well.
Until a few hours ago i believed the chinese spaa is lacking ahead as well, until it had been pointed out to me the programmer is missing
With regards to the A/A loadout, i already had filed a bug report.
We received AIM120B as part of the BP92 and were used for the 1997 F/A-18. Thats documented by swiss government.
Gaijin response was to me. Yes, correct, but it was able to carry sidewinders like the aim-9l anyway instead of the AIM-9P5(IRCCM) and as such it will be left as it is. We did not use AIM7P either, but our Hornet would have been able to use them.
Due to this GJ will leave the loadout as is. It was done on purpose.
So it’s a fictional but technically possible loadout.
I guess they just don’t like Finland
Yes, the early Hornet should have AIM-9P-5, as should Mirage IIIS and Swiss F-5E…
Shouldn’t both hornets have p-5’s, I thought they went straight from p-5’s to x’s.
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As long as a weapon is technically compatible with the aircraft (that is, the functionality was not removed), then its open to consideration.
Its not required for the weapon to have been purchased by that given nation. There are many examples of aircraft across multiple nations with this.
After the addition of the Finnish hornet it seemed strange that the Swiss hornet that should have had an identical loadout was given air to ground weapons.
Also there are cases of planes being given things they definitely couldn’t carry (Italian f16 and its aim7’s) so I guess I should have expected this.
The first Finnish Hornet was an F-18 with no capacity for guided A2G. The second version added this update is the MLU 2 that does have this capacity as an F/A-18:
I’m aware of that, but I was under the impression that the Swiss hornet also had no capacity for guided air to ground weapons.
Also planes that initially didn’t have air to ground weapons but later had the ability added have also been denied them in the past (like the f16a block 20 mlu, sorry that all of my examples are f16’s)
Currently at least, as F/A-18s, all evidence suggests the capacity was not removed.
These would be handled on a case by case basis. As mentioned above, the technical compatibility is the baseline to allow something to be considered. Its not an automatic given that it will be accepted as such.
Ok, but then it should have the AIM-9P-5 instead of the 9L/9M, as that was what Switzerland used before the AIM-9X was purchased. Note that this all aspect variant of the 9P was used on the Swiss F-5E and Mirage IIIS as well, in the variants/upgrades of those aircraft modelled in WT.
Technically by the standards he mentioned, just because it never used them doesn’t mean it can’t get them.
Hope he doesn’t mind me quoting him on that.
Finnland removed all capabilities. Switzerland left them in. In the beginning 1997 I could follow the idea of equiping them maybe later. Leaves at least an option open. In 2011 with Upgrade 2025 to spend additional millions just for the GNSS capabilities update, was not worth it.
I mean, the Upgrade21 with the ATFLIR I at least could designate laser targets and transmit them over the datalink. Could be a good option in combined arms. But to give an ability to drop laser or GPS guided bombs, really, what for.
Upgrade25 gave APG73 radar, new super hornet cockpit, cms, ecm, +++ which was a good investment IMHO. But A/G, really, what for.
