I’m okay with the IR MICA. The radar variant is already a death sentence. In fact- it might be better because flares might actually do something when all the tricks used to evade radar missiles dont work against the MICA.
Okaaay… Good luck with evading rain of ASRAAM/IRIS-T/MICA while you need to get a lot closer to them for AIM-9X :|
I somehow managed to understand why US mains wants to get AIM-9X that badly, but it will not going to be a magical solution to current problem.
Things will get even worse, mate.
The tech gap will be wider, and you will be craving more.
Alright theeen… I will go back to my Tonka and be ready to frag F-15E with ASRAAM when that time has come. :|
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spectral countermeasures and its BOL if/when it gets it should help. IIR missiles are good but tbh i dont think they are all they are said to be, otherwise why not just make long range IIR missiles that DL their way to target instead of ARH missiles.
those tonkas will also have to deal with F-22’s
Good luck spotting the F-22S/f-35s and evading the onslought of Aim-120s coming your way with datalink from AWACS… But alas “balance”
TBH I would be fine with artificial game balance, if it’s actually balanced. Top tier is largely fake anyways. Just give everyone the same capabilities.
wheres the fun in that?
give the russians their full force r-73+hmd combo that was made to beat American fighters, and give the US the F-22 made to beat the Russian air force into a pulp :P
A valid question 2 years ago.
In year the year of our lord, 2025- a nullity. The people asked for copy paste, and they got copy paste.
You do know the USSR went bankrupt and collapsed right? From 1991 until about 2012 there was basically no Russian military development, that’s why there is a 20 year gap in military tech, all the stuff coming out around 2012 was things that where being developed in 1991 but had to be mothballed due to their economic collapse and they only started getting the money to restart the projects in the 2010s.
That is why Russia has 2012 tech at the same level as late 80’s, early 90s NATO tech.
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they catching up fast tho
i find it especially funny how some people shit on American equipment then proceed to beg for US jets and tanks and act like putting US jets in the US is an affront to humanity
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The Su-30 is a modification of the Su-27 from 1977. It is not a 2012 development.
yeah but we have yet to see Russian/Chinese jets perform against their actual modern American counterparts (not some antiquated F-16’s vs. Su-35, btw an F-16 apparently shot one down or something)
currently Israeli modified export American aircraft (such as the F-16I and F-15I) id consider to be rougly on par with or worse than US versions are curbstomping certain air defences equipped with stuff like the S-300 and modern domestic SAM’s
F-22 vs Mig-29/31, Su27/30
historical matchmaking
not even i mean like F-15 advanced/strike eagle vs like an Su-30 or 35 or MiG-29xyz/MiG-35
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certainly, I’m just pointing out that their 2010s era stuff is basically what they where working on in the 1990s but had to shelve due to their financial situation. The R-77 is a good example, they started work on that in the 1980s, but it never entered service in Russia (at least in any significant numbers) until the R-77-1 in something like 2015.
Bruh. The 9X should NOT come to planes just yet. At most it will end up on a helicopter until they release the new IR AAMs for everyone.
People generally do not have the cognitive capacity (mainly Americans) that several Russian military equipment that we see are plans that were often seen since before 1991 and that after that the country collapsed and had a huge economic crisis and only for that reason from 2010 onwards we saw the emergence of new Russian equipment, and after recovering we see that since 2015 2017 and mainly now the Russian Federation has been modernizing rapidly.
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AH-1Z my beloved
I still pray they add the 9X to it last minute. That might actually revive it…
But we are deviating from the subject. No 9X on planes just yet.
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