The Indonesian Hawk 209 Returns at a Discount for the Hawk’s First Flight!

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The maiden flight of the Hawk strike aircraft, developed by Hawker Siddeley, took place on August 21st 1974. It was widely exported, with over 1,000 units produced in total. Many remain in service to this day, including with the Indonesian Air Force.

The Hawk 209 is available at a 30% discount for 6,734 Golden Eagles!

When: From August 21st (11:00 GMT) until August 24th (11:00 GMT).

Where: Japan > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

  • After the promotion ends, the Hawk 209 will be available at its full price of 9,620 Golden Eagles.

About this aircraft

  • The Hawk 209 is equipped with a radar warning receiver and countermeasures; its external armament options include the 30 mm ADEN Mk.4 cannon, a wide range of bombs (from 250 lb to 1,000 lb), AIM-9P-4 air-to-air missiles, AGM-65G air-to-ground missiles, Mighty Mouse rockets, and MBDA Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles — some of the best in the game!
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Peak

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Yes very peak

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More Hawks in game plz.

Preferably not so horridly overtiered in the future

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when 4x Skyflash RDA

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Hopefully Hawk 208 tech tree SOON™

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208 is identical to a 209 so dont get hopes up

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Is that even a thing?

(Hm, well , was RDA ever a thing? Can’t seem to find any reference to it…)

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RDA is the Hawk 200, (ZJ201, we have it in game)

There was a bug report for it to get an extra 2x Skyflash on its outer underwing pylons, instead of only the inner underwing pylons for a maximum of 4x Skyflash

(cross checking i’ve seen the report was denied as “Not Enough Info”)

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yes it was but was given the obligatory notenoughinfo

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/FB7rup56NTOK

Honestly WTs implementation of the prototype hawk 200s is pretty poor and heavily cherrypicked in what they do and dont believe because of “marketing lies” or just so they dont have to do it for the british one (the japan tree one also has significant issues but thats another kettle of fish)

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A CAS plane with no line up…good job…gooood job!

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will be decent for nuclear thunder with the current BR brackets tbf. all aspect missiles and two maverics (that will be shot down by a duster)

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it can be also used a a neat little fighter.

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Well that’s perfect, low effort addition that brings something new to the researchables

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fair. If they dont give it sidewinders it could be a very strong 8.0 (9.0GRB) plane as the hawk airframe doesnt stand much chance against even a vampire (which itself is horrendously overtiered for 8.0)

hopefully britain gets a 203 to fill that role too

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Is it recommended to get?

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I like mine a lot! = )

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When do we get a Finnish Hawk mk. 51 with the R-60 (The standard R-60, FAF never had the MK nor the R-13M1 IRL, yet you ruined the uniqueness of the Finnish MiG-21Bis with those missiles as another case of copypaste slop.)?

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Nah, Swiss Mk.66 with AIM-9P-4.

You can always put a Finnish camo on it, as we sold ours to you… ;-)

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Not as identical as the TT F-14D that’s being added!

Malaysian Hawks would have Harpoon instead of Sea Eagle at least. They also used CRV-7 for a while until switching to the FZ70 FFARs in 2012. Don’t know if they used Maverick on them in Malaysia like Indonesia do, but they do have Mavs for their F/A-18Ds at least
Refuelling probe is also more commonly fitted on Malaysia’s Hawks so it might look different.

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