It entorely different story. F-20 lost to F-16, nobody wanted it either and has only 3 prototypes. T-10M family is much larger, soviet union planned to buy them but they were too broke to do it and many part from T-10Ms were use in other Sukhoi aircraft.
I would love too see it as a premium vehicle. I would hate the idea of it being a Event vehicle. And i don’t see it being part of the research tree. Su-30sm and Su-30sm2 already have that cover. And we still have the Su-35s as the king of the Research Tree. The problems i have its how long will take gaijin to add the Su-35s, it introduction date was around the same year as in game RAFALE. And how gaijin will add the Su-30sm. Specially in terms of what engine they will use. SM2 its being tested with Al-41 engine (SU-35s engine). Russia also just announce on Zhuhai the 177s engine that can be use on plane with the old Al-31 engines. Both engine has about the same performance… If gaijin decide to ignore both engine. And don’t have plan to add the Su-35s like in the Second update of the years. Su-30sm will be a little underpower on engine. And that in where the Su-37 would be better in the Research Tree. It engine its comparable in power with Al-41 or 177s. But lets be clear if gaijin don’t add the Su-35s fast i don’t see them do it with the Su-37.
I don’t mind the Su-30sm with “bad” engine. But gaijin is making Russia Tree look like a small tree. That don’t have good toys… The whole “Russian jets are underperforming in top tier” problem its gaijin fault for adding BAD models. And delaying the good ones. Ill said it again The Su-35s its contemporary to the RAFALE in game…
And for people crying because it would be behind a paywall. Just farm two event vehicles and sell them.
Man i have read that even SM has being produce/actualize with Al-41F. But on flanker thread. Someone has posted a video that the SM2 test with the al-41 are still ongoing. And the plane its still being produce with Al-31fp. Because their are rushing it to the front with more ground attack capability. Maybe in the Future they actualize them with the 177s engine. But right now there has being 0 noise about it done.
I think that the Su-37 should become an event vehicle, and this aircraft should not only be paid for, but given a free but hard-earned opportunity for everyone.
Haven’t read a post this stupid in a while. Because Russian top tier sucks right now you want to fix it by adding a rank 8 premium and is paywalled behind 80GJN or whatever it is. Am I getting this right?
Gaijin will not add rank 8 premiums. They fear the backlash from the community from people buying themelves into top tier. However, they just put them in rank 7 at the same or lower br instead. This is the perfect solution to the problem as you might expect, and there are therefore almost fr no wallet warriors at top tier at all.