Basically, what are your guys thoughts on planes like the E-C2 hawkeye, E-3 Sentry, and Beriev A-50.
Planes that could basically see an enemy when they get into certain distance too the aircraft using their rotodomes.
If these planes were to come to war thunder, where/what would you like to see from them?
Would you want them to be player controlled? A.I.? Would they use the normal spotting system or perhaps something different?
They would be useless ingame because the maps are to small
With how it is currently they will just instantly be shot down by a fox3 after the match starts
Seconding this, and adding on that as it stands, there isn’t yet a place for purely support aircraft - everything has some sort of arms package.
it would be cool, yes, but there’d need to be quite a few in-between changes to make it fit properly (among which would be making bigger maps / modes, which would be a reverse course from Gaijin’s current route.)
I mean it would be fine if Awacs would be Ai controlled as they are supposed to fly in cerciles for the whole match, which probably no player would want to do
if we had bigger sim maps (something like 320kmx320km) then it would be a cool addition if it circled in the backlines
bigger maps and multi vehicle control mechanics may make them interesting, if maps were 300x300 and you could switch from your aircraft to the awacs or have a dedicated awacs squad mate you could get amazing intel providing you manage to position yourself well and communicate well with the team.
you could also paint targets for your allies to shoot missiles at without using their DL channels (huge help for the J-11B and Su-27SM and others with few DL channels)
I can see them having a place with these mechanics, large maps and a flight control mode that is more RTS style than WT (think changing altitude with a slider and changing the aircraft’s trajectory on a map with way-points)
This could also benefit the MiG-31 if it ever comes as it is able to take over missiles fired by allied crafts by DL, essentially guiding it’s own R-33 an an ally’s R-27ER from outside the range of enemy radars and missiles
