The leaks implied that 4/4.5 Gen planes will get next gen missiles to compensate, but that still leaves the earlier 4/4.5 gen planes completely useless.
Theres a very high chance a base EFT will be facing an F-35, and that’s very bad.
Yeah. And even then, if its ARH missiles like Meteor, the stealth means that any possible advantage might be gone.
Im just hoping that for the F-22, Su-57 and J-20, the stealth does bugger all, and for the F-35 it doesnt do much
It depends on what other fixes/features they add to Gen 4.5 planes.
Fuck it we ball
Consider How much they’ve done for the F-14A “Early” over the years.
Best you can hope for is that they don’t break too much and forget about said airframes.
Actually the F-22A early versions would have aim-9m and aim-120b, the 9x and 120c/d were only integrated afterwards
the last time they added a star jet in a truly early service airframe configuration was the F-14A
True, and that’s a bummer
I mean, what is left for F-14A in terms of open reports?
ALR-23 IRSTS / AXX-1 TCS & sensor Missile guidance support
AIM-9L
AIM-95
VTAS III HMS
AoA functionality(alternate wing sweep program(s))
Reverting erroneous changes to flaps and slats deployment regimes
AIM-54 “Bank to Turn”
AIM-54 Loft
Fuel COG
add LANTIRN TGP & LGBs
etc.
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Do you have link to the reports for these:
AIM-54 loft
AIM-54 bank to turn
AIM-9L
AIM-95
VTAS III HMS
Quite interesting. There is a chance that Captor-E would be able to detect it around that range but no confirmed report about it actually doing it
5th gen are not gonna be added this year