Is the F/A-18C any good for ground RB cause I’m looking to buy It to be able to have access to a top tier jet with AGMS because I don’t have any Top tier Jet besides the Tornado WTD61 (without AGMS and just conventional drop bombs)
First off you should change Swedish to Swiss :)
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It’s average. Not the best FM and its A2A loadout is rather heavily outclassed, so may struggle to defend itself but does have 4x AGM-65Gs which are a fairly typical AGM, though also not that great for top tier. Does also have a mix of GBUs as well.
No idea what quality the TPod is though, but probably Gen 2?
Didnt even clock that :D
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but like Is it worth buying if you dont grind planes and dont have access to a top tier jet
That I cant really answer. Maybe?
I can just look at its loadout and general performance and make a guess
Being Germany, you wont have to deal with IRIS-T SLMs, so might do fine, but next major hopefully others will catch up and then it will be outclassed
so im assuming thats a yes??? 🤷♂️
Ngl i thought i was losing it when i read swedish then clicked and it changed to swiss
Swiss, Swedish, whats the difference :P
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you werent losing it my dumbass overthinked swiss and sweden together 😭
Tbf its 12.7 yeah? Its definitely one of the best vehicles rn and could easily go to 13.0 for air rb, id say its a decent purchase but there is definitely a learning curve to understand what youre strengths/weaknesses are
Ngl I only bought the swiss f18 cause I dont know how to drop laser guided bombs correctly and needed a fire and forget missile cant lie
I think OP is looking purely at GRB CAS.
So how it will fair against things like the Pantsir and the SPAAs hopefully coming next major. (Let alone the OP Swiss EldE 98 :P)
Also how it will fair when facing Rafales, Su-30s and Typhoons with only 9Ls and 7Ps
Tbf GBU’s are great but you lack the amount for Top tier. The Finnish MLU 2 is the worst at a max of 4 bombs making it entirely worthless so you did get something decent. Id say FnF is pretty solid though especially if you get in early game since not too many people first pull spaa.
can you use guided bombs kinda like fire and forget missiles dropping multiple at one time on different targets cause I need to learn how to do it
Elde is so OP that its shear presence alone makes enemies fly and target everyone but the Elde sitting in spawn whose out of ammo after firing all his missiles at mig 21 2km away
Depends on the bomb.
If it has GNSS, then you can, but if the target moves, then it will miss.
Otherwise you can use the laser and the bomb will track the marked target, but all bombs in flight (that can see the laser) will go for the lased target
Most bombs has Laser+GNSS, so you can drop the bomb onto the target and if it moves, then you can switch to the laser
You can, you need to have a keybind for toggling your laser, the problem is you just dont have enough to stop any spaa from shooting you down before you can get close enough because you’re super slow
what if it was the EBGU-24B on the swiss f18 in germanys tech tree
Looking at the F-18C. Only the EGBU-24s have, well, IOG, which works similar to GNSS but not quite as good, so the F-18 doesnt really have that option