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PlasmaKrab said:
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Shadowcougar said:
It would be treated like a Harrier I would think.
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That is the same principle of course, but are there already on-map VTOL Harriers in the game?
The point is, I don't know how the thing would behave when attacking.
A VTOL plane hovering and shuffling while firing rockets and missiles at a target wouldn't seem plausible, except in a Schwarzenegger movie...
Once taken off, no matter how, it should behave just like another attack plane.
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There is no support in the game for such a beast. The only directly player controlled air units are helos, basically.
The hovering and nose-dip saluting is something you really see at air shows (i recall a harrier at leuchars doing that sort of thing, plus VTOL), but really only valid with a clean conditionplane (e.g. to relocate from a bombed out strip to a new one).
The SHARS which used "Sid's strip" (AKA HMS Sheathbill, RAF Port San Carlos) in the Falklands may have landed vertically, but the strip was a few 100 metres of sheeting for a short take off.
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/mileston...ry/1982_2.html
http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/mov1.html
(search for "sheathbill" on that page - where it states the strip was 850 foot of planking)
Cheers
Andy