Let’s be extra clear. There is nothing wrong with only having two* nuke carriers. For the longest time we only had the Canberra and IL28, but this time is different.
It’s not that there is only two nuke planes, it’s that pretty much every nation gets some form of F16, even the nations that are on the eastern block. (granted that’s pretty much just china)
The only nation that gets anything other than an F16 like is the USSR.
Why they thought it was a smart Idea to give china a Taiwanese F16 instead of idk, a mig29, or the JH7 they just added. I have no clue.
The copy/paste F-16s is a bit of a downer. I’m all for more unique carriers even if the performance isn’t on equal footing.
This is a team-based game so surely someone should assist the nuke carrier with air defence, ground based and otherwise?
One of these days I’d get to control the V Bombers…
I think the key word is session Battle Rating. IIRC battles can take place up to 1.0 BR above the highest vehicle BR in that mode. Basically something like this:
Session BR
Vehicle BR range
12.7
11.7 - 12.7
13.0
12.0 - 12.7
13.3
12.3 - 12.7
13.7
12.7
Obviously “Vehicle BR range” in the context of ground RB refers to the highest BR vehicle in each player’s line-up. So in a 12.7 session BR game some players will have an 11.7 line up and others a 12.7 one; while in a 13.3 BR game everyone will have either 12.3 or 12.7 line-ups, and in a 13.7 game everyone will have a 12.7 lineup.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 9 of the Japan’s constitution reads:
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese
people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a
means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea and air forces, as
well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not
be recognized.
That’s the key point, in 1954 Japan recognized that they were basically helpless if the cold war went hot, thus the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) were created, furthermore in 2014 Shinzo Abe (God bless his soul) extended this self-defense policy to Japan’s allies in the pacific under certain situations.
Japan still renouces the right to make war, but it has acknowledged the right to defend their country and people if war ever came to them.
Yes, because having a defense force is an ENTIRLY different thing to having a military. Same as how having a ban on nuclear weapons is a totally different thing to having a nuclear deterant.
Which is my point, having a ban on nuclear weapons is only a thing until they decide they want them, Japan is also a threshold nuclear state, from what I have heard it would take them less than a month to enrich their civilian uranium stockpiles up to weapons grade levels and produce a warhead and they have delivery vehicles already.
No it’s still banned, they just keep expanding the definition of “self defense”.
So… about 7000kg.
From the limited research I’ve done on Chinese aircraft, their fighters tend not to have nuclear weapons incorporated.
J-10A for example doesn’t according to sources so far, and judging by the mass of that nuclear weapon… I don’t think it could fit anyway.
China seems to prioritize making their strike aircraft nuclear capable, but who knows… maybe there’s a source I’m missing somewhere.
