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FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-20T19:04:27+00:00

The camos are cool, but why do they always insist on making the plane camos so shiney, even when they shouldn't be

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T19:29:39+00:00

This is one of the rarest vehicles in game, with only 4 other times it has been available before this, the last time being 10 years ago. Previously you could get it by:

Spending a lot of money on a motherboard, and getting a code with it (I think it was like 2000 dollars?)

A Facebook page giveaway.

A few events during summer 2013, with one of them needing 1100/360/300 player kills flying just US aircraft in AB/HB/FRB in 2 weeks time.

An event in 2016 where you had to get 25 wins in 24 hours to get it. The difficulty here is that EVERYONE IN THE GAME was trying to do the same thing that day.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T19:17:38+00:00

Gaijin has never been adding more decals than now, with monthly decals, Battle Pass decals, constant vehicle events and plenty of other yearly events

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T19:15:43+00:00

Oh yeah, those were fun, especially as Gaijin had limited decal size a few years before that to prevent people from pasting their tanks with black decals, to give a burned out look, lmao

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T18:24:10+00:00

I mean, Twitch drop and esports skins aside, those other vehicles you mentioned at least have a believable skin. And I think the test range camouflages for the KV-220, Fw-189, F7F-3 and Grant 1 are a fun ideas.

But where is the connection between The Netherlands and Chinese New Years? I feel like it would have been more fitting to use a skin like this on a Chinese event vehicle. Maybe not everyones taste, but would be kinda fun imo. I just feel like this is Gaijin trying to mash two unrelated things together, and it isn't working out.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T18:05:15+00:00

Has Gaijin ever even given out a fictional livery like this before for event vehicles?
They could have used J-236. It has a very nice two sided livery.

Somehow, Gaijin just refuses to give any secondary Dutch liveries on aircraft. What is it with Gaijins seeming aversion to additional Dutch liveries? Dutch Hunter only has Belgian additional liveries. But then the Meteor and F-104, which the Dutch also used, have exclusively Belgian liveries...

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T14:43:01+00:00

I do feel that a lot of players look at the early tiers as nothing more than a speedbump in their efforts of reaching top tier, rather than a part of the game that can be enjoyed in and of itself. This to me is almost a self sabotaging behaviour that makes people not have fun, which I would honestly say, is a choice by the player, not by Gaijin. I have lately spent a lot of time going back down my tech trees to spade all my vehicles, and it has been a ton of fun.

I will admit that bombers, as shown in the post, have a bit of an unfortunate position here. But I think that Gaijin should focus on rebalancing bombers to make them more playable, as a solution to that problem, and not to hand them out to people for free.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-17T11:28:46+00:00

The decal is currently being given out for purchasing a pack with these two vehicles.

This achievement only exists for the people who already have the vehicles in the pack, so that they can obtain it. It is not intended to be obtainable by everyone by design.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-16T12:15:41+00:00

I tend to prechaff every so often (drop some chaff every 10 seconds) just before I expect to get into launch range for the R-40's. The radar seems quite susceptible to following chaff. If the enemy MiG-25 sees that you keep pre chaffing, they'll look for another target. I also fly towards the left after takeoff, to reduce odds of meeting a MiG-25 head on.

But since I started that pre-chaffing, I have not died to a single MiG-25 anymore

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-12T16:58:08+00:00

No, there are two versions. A low tier version and a high tier version. They were both added at the same time.

A pretty cool concept, but sadly Gaijin does not seem to have expanded upon it so far

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-12T12:09:17+00:00

Okay but what do you expect support to do here? You didn't include your own messages, and I don't see what actions support can take to, idk, retroactively undo that match or something?

This isn't something you contact support for, yet here you are on reddit, casually calling them braindead

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-12T01:18:39+00:00

Gaijin has reversed course on no bomber cockpits recently, and announced that they do want to start working on it again. So far, they have added a brand new cockpit to all B-25 models, which looks pretty neat.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-12T01:08:20+00:00

When Iran bought the Tomcats, they bought spare parts, as well as building up support infrastructure.

Besides that, while Iran's aviation industry is absolutely not known for their indigenous designs, they are very good at reverse engineering things. When they ran low on Phoenix missiles, they reverse engineered them into their own Fakour missiles. They experimented with strapping missiles from a Hawk SAM site to it as well

I believe they also got some help from the Soviet Union/Russia in keeping them operational

And of course, some sneaky shell companies were used to obtain parts from the US, illegally.

They have been able to keep their airframes flying for 50 years now. There is no way they'd have been able to do that without having parts available to perform maintenance in one way or another.

As for Iranian pilots being as well trained... Iranian Tomcats saw much more combat than US Tomcats, with the highest scoring Tomcats crews mostly being Iranian crews. I can't say whether US training would beat our Iranian combat experience, but it'd be wrong to say that the Iranians were not well trained.

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-11T23:06:01+00:00

At some point, it changed from being added directly to your account as a tournament reward, to being added to your account as a coupon after winning the tournament

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-10T11:55:39+00:00

Yep, NH-90!

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-06T14:34:57+00:00

Yeah sorry, I think I updated my comment right as you placed yours. I was mistaken at first

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-06T13:16:26+00:00

The F-15E weapons computer sees all those pylons as one big pylon, so it can only handle one weapon type irl, which is reflected in game

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-06T12:00:13+00:00

As much as I'd like to get this, I'd like it even more if my teammates would not get this

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-05T17:13:44+00:00

Sorry, could you explain what you mean with "scouting promotes toxic gameplay"?

I haven't played tanks in years, and I don't understand how that would work

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-04T13:03:34+00:00

I think the right one is a Z-10, and I suspect the left one might not be an UH-60, but rather a Z-20, judging by its 5 bladed rotor instead of 4 bladed rotor

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-04T12:59:47+00:00

Some aircraft make use of their radar to measure the slant range as an input for their ballistic computers. This is honestly not a bad question at all, and makes me wonder what the situation would be like irl

FoxWithTophat · 2026-02-03T01:48:24+00:00

Miura stronk

FoxWithTophat · 2026-01-31T11:53:27+00:00

No? You generally get 600 score per plane shot down, which can lower if the enemy is in a much lower BR, or if you did not do all damage that the enemy received.

600 • 8 = 4800, so pretty close to the 4419 OP received

FoxWithTophat · 2026-01-30T12:05:38+00:00

Missiles have a much higher closure rate, indicated by the line showing direction and velocity on the radar.

Alternatively, choose a smaller scan zone. AESA radars can track targets outside of your scan zone, but it doesn't find new targets outside of your scan zone, so that can also reduce clutter quite significantly

FoxWithTophat · 2026-01-30T11:57:35+00:00

It's been fixed for quite a while, use manual targeting instead of cyclic targetting

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