Yeah but as they’ve said they’re going to skip the MLU1 completely and make a later one with the a2g so likely an MLU2 variant with all of the weapons and all of the variants having AMRAAMs I don’t see how this version is a good idea now nor in the future as this one can’t have any of the better weapons and the developers can just withhold any weapons for the sake of balance like the A-10A late for example.
And Finalnd didn’t own the most modern AMRAAMs until MLU2 anyway so this would still be the early unique pure a2a fighter. So if it was implemented as an MLU1 it would have more balancing range in the future and literally no change in BR compared to what we have now
Already said they are skipping MLU 1 in favor of MLU 2 so same vehicle but maybe 300kg less and with BOL and A2G restored. Ill need to check weight when it comes out but the Finnish Hornets lack the arrestor hook since they are locally produced iirc. The mount and frame for the hook is about 300-350kg
Gaijin is sadly only planning to add the MLU-2 upgrade what brings in CAS capability and not the MLU-1 what brings better A2A upgrades. Or at least that’s what smin said somewhere.
Yeah that’s what I said and at least for me and my group of friends that’s sad bc we would wan’t the mlu-1 over the legacy version (Legacy meaning pre mlu)
Oh they have the hook allright and all the FAF bases have arrestor gear. And there are even mobile arrestor kits for the road bases. Even though they are only used for emergencies. If they had removed the arrestor gear they would’ve had to add ballast in it’s place so why remove it as it’s useful.
Theres probably a list of which ones have it and don’t, i dont have any such list but it would be interesting since ive seen a few without them. Im curious what the percentage is of non equipped are. Must be fairly low
More like it’s done nothing since gaijin would never change their mind to begin with. Its nice to see how many people gaijin simply don’t care about. Just goes to show you need to have major nation syndrome to get whatever you want.
I don’t think they normally operate them without them as it’s part of standard emergency procedures to use them, and have been used in real emergencies. I can’t say that they’ve never flown them without the actual hook as you’ve seen pictures without them. I suspect that they’ve been just missing the hook, not their attachments (the heavy part).
Certainly you couldn’t fly them with everything removed without a ballast. It would severely affect manouverability as there’s a long moment arm to the center of gravity from the tail.
Eh, honestly who knows, i wouldn’t be suprised if some models had the hooks removed for testing things then just never reapplied. But without official documents its hard to say. One of the weird things i guess.
It was heavily advertised in the 1990’s that the F-18 has an added bonus of an arrestor hook for emergencies. And the arrestor gear exists and there are likely photos of them. I’ll try to find one.
That is infact not a separate road base but a strip of highway right next to the airbase (peace time civilian airport) to use for example if the runway is bombed.
Personally, I think it should be the community, with oversight and actual implementation considerations from the coders and such. The current model of them just adding things that they think their players will like isn’t really great and the whole suggestions category is a joke.
It should be a complementary arrangement. For example, I’d be more than happy to not receive new stuff for a few patches if it meant fixing what we currently have, padding out the tech trees and decompressing battles. It’s absurd to me that we have 14.0 for air (which could be decompressed further) but only 12.0 for ground which seriously needs increasing.
All I’m asking is that the community gets some say in it, contrary to popular belief (not implying you, but you know who) we’re not all just mindless wallets.