Omega417

If I YEET an AIM-7 at them and they don't maneuver, I gets a kill. If they do maneuver, they are no longer able to target me and I can trash my first missile for a better solution with another 7 or a heater. Win-Win. In the Hornet, I almost always Yeet my first 120 just a few seconds outside of max range, knowing the range is going to get a lot closer in head-on engagements. Gets them turning and not targeting me.

Im just saying, even half that is still a standoff. If they dont maneuver they die, if they do maneuver they cant get a solution on me. Id rather waste 3 Fox 1s to get him into a poor state to kill with a heater than get in a turn fight just for the sake of using the gun.

If we are getting Es the wiki value for those is 27NMI, thats plenty of standoff distance for me.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that. But i also dont intend to follow Vietnam ROE and intend to launch AIM7s at max range, and if im out of those and heaters im going to open the range. I know my limitations, I suck in turn fights so i dont want to get in them.

But you don't need the gun to BFM, if you don't have sidewinders you shouldn't be getting into BFM anyway.

Is this all from that cult classic i hear about all the time? I think its Firefly?

You arent actually reading these comments.

But if they can justify it in their minds then its just. The people who can wait dont normally post about how they are happily waiting, they just post about the ordinance or liveries.

Everyone has different levels of patience. Dont apply your own standards to the internet, it wont work. Id be way way more impatient if I wasnt super busy at work and havent been able to fly in weeks.

To play advocate for both sides, they did say they didnt want to announce anything until they got closer but had to drop the announcement after all they hype around 2022 and beyond. And the initial date was "End of Year" 2022. They had an airtight reason for missing that and I'm not going to fault them for that. That being said, we are almost 6 months into '23, So I can understand the impatience.

What?

Hard dates are always hard to keep when they're set months out. I wasn't arguing for hard dates, I was arguing for quarterly status updates. Right now the only guaranteed source of news is the Friday news bulletin and its always a toss up on what information will be covered in that.

I think people are more frustrated when there is no clarity or time frame. A quarterly dev blog or update would go a log way to show what progress is being made. Or even just a list of "To-Dos" before release with occasional updates so people can get a sense that things are wrapping up and its getting close. But every seems to be posting "soon" and "Finish touches" for months on end. With no frame of reference to what "soon" or "finishing touches" actually mean the community is going to develop different expectations. The ones on the forums are the ones who are getting tired of waiting and came to find an answer, the ones who dont comment are the ones who are ok with waiting a few months longer.

If i remember my development correctly, the F-4E nose was developed from an RF-4C nose suite since they would have needed to lengthen the nose to house the gun and other mechanisms. so outside of a few other differences an unarmed F-4E would be a "decent" substitute for an RF-4C

I like the added AMRAAMs on the pylons

Its all about # of antennas, sensitivity, and filters.

I mean, it was designed and produced before other guidance schemes and before radar guided AAA and SAM threats were considered legitimate. It is an improvement over WW2 methods and could reduce the number of aircraft required to destroy a single target. But yeah its use at the end of its life cycle was not good.

That's not a lot of physical external change to make. I'd say if they can hand jam it at first to make a G then slowly correct it, like one item every other patch we would have a legit AI G in no time.

Sounds like we still need an answer....(Im trying to build some hype for who has gone fastest/highest)

Which dev do you guys think currently holds the speed and altitude record in our Phantom?

One of life's great mysteries

Ive got a model of "Showtime 100" on my desk at work. Its a cool plane with an awesome backstory.

I'm calling May 27th with an ad campaign starting the 1st of May

We could always ask HB to delay the Phantom a few years so they get released together. Any takers on that proposal?

I am here for the orange.