The YP-80 is the designation of the limited Shooting Star jet fighters that saw service in WW2 as reconnaissance vehicles. In particular, there were two of these planes that are depicted above flying over Italy in March of 1945.
The F-80A-5 is a premium aircraft, but the designation and fighter itself are postwar, while this is a non-anachronistic vehicle. It would essentually be a reskin of the existing F-80A-5, so implementation shouldn’t be too difficult for developers.
The YP-80 would be similar to the F-80A-5 in specification, but could be differentiated with an 8 x HVAR Rocket ordnance loadout.
Would you like to see the YP-80 added to the game?
- Tech Tree
- Event/Battle Pass
- Premium
- F-80A-5 Reskin and Rename
- No
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No. Jets are a mistake and we don’t need more jets at all.
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Pandora’s box has been opened, unfortunately.
Ideally, all jets would fit more of an interceptor class without payloads, and be used as a direct counter to CAS.
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I like them more if they removed the booms on them.
Well lets not open it up even more!
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Cool. And then they would become useless waste of slot… useless in the fact that why not just use other ones and waste of slot because they can’t effectively combat tanks.
Have you any idea what happens when someone takes plane slot with c20 or spitfire even in low BR? Wow you can only go after other planes… not like tanks are being spawned 24/7.
That is terrible… it is barely acceptable in low tier yet absolutely unacceptable in high tier where there are high power tanks always up and aircraft is primary counter.
If the enemy can supply tanks consistently with my fast resupply jet then that is equal… and this has happened before… which eventually they just build AA and is quite annoying… yet most players would rather complain they are too powerful instead of doing something about the issue.
I see nothing wrong with this.
Allies do not need any more aircraft until other nations are brought onto their level.
If that’s not right then neither is US getting tanks to combat tiger 2
How are they a mistake? Germany’s jets did see some service during the war. This game is no stranger to prototypes either
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The Soviets dont even a TT BR 4 Aircraft.
The Japanese need more attackers and Bombers really!
Axis needs maybe more bombers!
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He probably means because they introduced a universally large increase of powercreep for fighters at BR 5. Consider the power jump going from a Bf 109 K-4 to an Me 262, or a Ki 84 Ko to a Kikka.
Regardless, some representations of each major nation within a faction (if they aren’t being split) is still warranted.
No, thanks. There are plenty of other vehicles that could be added.
It’s pretty obvious that you just want to make the premium plane less unique by adding another variant of the same vehicle to the tech tree.
They werent a mistake but some of them are a little out of boujds in terms of time period I’d be OK with the Me262 staying but everything else is borderline stupid
The Me262 should’ve been premium, while the one with the long cannon event. But I’ll die on this hill that jets were a mistake being added
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They definitely jumped the gun on jets. There is still so much they can do with early and mid war; them rushing to add end of war content makes me feel to me like they are not only forgetting about the rest of the game, but also ending it.
No, there isn’t some hidden agenda to make the existing plane “less unique”.
The only other American jet option with comparable performance to the others is the XP-83, but it only had a single prototype built before the end of the war. Many people would prefer service vehicles over singular prototypes for tech tree options, it’s just that Gaijin pushed themselves into a corner with their choices.
I just try to suggest options that will appeal to the most people, while also being balanced and period-correct, based on research. I even offered a “F-80A-5 Reskin and Rename” option in the poll.
You mean the most P2W vehicle in the game ? 
If there is P2W squad in the game that’s the one its absolutely broken and got secret buffs all the time to a point when it became better then the Meteor … with a better payload then the meteor and you can have 2 jets the only faction that can have 2 distinct jets one boom and zoom and one turn fighter.
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No. YOU are forgetting that there is a whole BR section dedicated to the end of the war… and BRV is portraying if it continued basically.
I did some more digging, and it turns out I was wrong about what other potential American jet fighters for BR 5 could be added.
I have now made a suggestion for the US NAVY XFD-1 Phantom as well. I will change my vote to the F-80A-5 getting a reskin and rename.
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Please, for the love of god, ANYTHING but more jets 
Jets should have never been added in the first place
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Why? Jets were a development towards the end of WW2… which is what the BR they are present in is depicting
