Why Even Add the F18E in this state?

The aircraft is missing Most of its Air to Ground weapons has No Bol pods, No towed decoys nothing to set it apart from the much faster 14.3 aircraft in either CAS or Air to Air at this point unless its a F15E with and AESA or an F22 theres no point in looking forward to new aircraft since it seems the devs have no idea how to implement them.

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this is the dev server, not everything is complete yet.

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Iv heard that statement like 50 times and then theres next to no change before launch, maybe theres a bug fix or 2 but balance changes are rare from dev to launch

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Towed decoys aren’t a feature of War Thunder at this point.
It’s likely one of the things they’re working on, and I hope it comes with ECW.

F-22 would be OP.

F-18C Block 25 would be better for 14.3.

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Well then thats kinda the point tho, without the feature why even add the plane to the game, it has No new weapons, no unique setup of features an F15E with AESA would at least be Competitive.

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For the same reason the Mig-21SMT is added.
Cause it’s a neat plane, even if some features dozens of aircraft will use aren’t in the game yet.

Because they can always be added later. this is a live game and things get updated 5 times a year. Just because its not here now doesn’t mean it wont come at a later date.

And no JAGM-F(…

USA will use AGM-65 until 2141 y.e.

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That was said with:

AIM-120C-5 performance (it got worse)
F-15C GE extra pylons (they’re not getting added)

Just stop with that argument atp, this is exactly the place to complain about the devserver client and what’s in there.

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at least u have fnf armament lol

AGM-65 are morally outdated

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They should’ve upgraded the current F-15E w/AESA and call it a day, but I guess its easier to cheese the playerbase later on with another same exact F-15E, just like the upcoming EFTs treatment

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again tell that the eurofighters

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No stop it, this BS has been thrown out countless times now when stuff is missing from NATO and more specifically US vehicles on dev.

There is nothing more final than the first US weapons loadout on dev.

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Eurofighter have Brimstone. Brimstone = JAGM-F.

u genius are aware the brimstones are limited to laser guiding right?

Ye, but F-18E have it ×18.

are you serious lol
they wont do anything on the F18E, if the jagm F is laser only you will be shot out of the sky instantly

No. I’am throwing SPAA by my JAGM on ground-licking flight. It’s verified strategy.

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jesus you want worse missles, you have no idea what you are actualy talking about