Think you are confusing F8A with F7A.
It's F8A that you will be able to buy in PU after getting to certain level in SQ42
Here is a link to video that I posted some time ago:
https://testsquadron.com/threads/mother-of-god-is-it-happening.17331/post-333246
Both F7A and F8A will be restricted to UUE Navy, but it has been said that few will be available in PU, most likely by hijacking them off UEE.
I am still hoping that emergence of F8 means that SQ42 is around the corner (if we should trust CR that F8 will be available only when SQ42 comes out).
No when it come to A version it was suppose to be the F7A Hornet the F8 it was the F8C version, but as that is not in any official statement and things seem to change a lot.
And I don't trust the Video any further than you can throw the computer you watch it on, tho I hope he's not mouthing off and saying shit out of the hat.
Which is often he do so that video doesn't confirm anything more than what we know we get a badge to buy one if we finish SQ42 but not which version.. just lose talk.
So it is just a video clip as many of them are as they change or he him self got things mixed up, a official statement is written in text with the story behind why and how...
As I said it is not more than a we hope, we wish this is the plan how we want it and if they can't they change it.
That's why I said no video clip that does not hold up as official statement!...
Do I hope it is like this and that, sure I do but my hope does not make it so...
The one thing we do know is F8A is built as a successor to the F7A and that should be recently, so not that long ago and SQ42 start way off just after the last war.
There was no F8 version at all back then but might come later in the SQ42 story.
The truth is there is a lot of guessing and theory crafting but not much official part from some lose comments.
We think we know, we get one version, or both, or this and that... who knows... guessing how it is, does not make it so.
And I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on a official written story that tell it like,.. this is how it'll be... !
CHEERS!