I wouldn’t say that, the F-22 was based on 1980’s cold war requirements and was designed to ensure air dominance in a period of time where the world climate was quite uncertain. We wanted to maintain an advantage over our enemies for quite some time and the F-22 was a great investment in that regard.
Better to have the bigger stick as they say, and it was just lucky that we got it during a time when world issues didn’t really rise up to anything super serious. No super powers got into major conflicts or threatened each other with nuclear war, etc. There is also the case of the B-2 stealth bomber. No one else in the world has a nuclear bomber fleet that can fly right through enemy airspace unimpeded and drop a nuke, even today. So yeah, I think there is a great need for fully stealth aircraft. If France couldn’t justify that but had the means… that would be a very interesting conversation indeed.
Oh you mean F-22 replica that has no reliable information?
They claim that their stealth fighter is better than F-22/35 while at the same time they never even produced 3th gen fighters.
Turkey always makes cool prototypes that ends failure. Their ALTAY tank is one of the best example in that case, despite their claim they couldnt even start serial production after 12 years.
Safe to say their words are not something that should be taken seriously.
Rafale is already matured product while KAAN is nothing but fancy prototype.
Considering how many times Turkey failed to start serial production on prototype designs while making absurd claims i have zero trust in this case as well.
assuming it enters service in the 2030s, it won’t matter anyway
Rafale has already been a moderate export success, and most importantly, a 30 year older aircraft
If, and that’s a big if, the KAAN enters service, its equivalent will be NGF.
As for “Turkey”, i would like to remind you that it is being in part developped by BAE, which is not turkish.
They also have to develop their own engine, which is no small feat, so we’ll see how that goes
As for the “stealth tech” side of things, the Rafale basically had it all, except for the bay, and a few areas of the airframe, which were not designed with stealth in mind. Neuron however made its first flight 12 years ago and was designed as a stealth drone from the get go.
then again, it could be a case of camera sensitivity
the color of the airflow going out of the engines is of the same brightness as the AC on your picture, while the engine exhaust is far hotter than whatever comes out from behind the canopy
Man I know the IRST can be annoying at times, but I love it in Sim. It’s so nice to be able to lock TWS > switch IRST for approaching sneakily > switch to PD again at close range and launch a MICA. If I could launch a MICA from the IRST that would be even more funny.
This is a small clip of me pranking an EF2000 earlier. Sorry for the low res, imgur compresses video a lot, but I’m starting to find this plane really fun in Sim. A lot more than the EF2000 for now (still waiting for a radar fix tbh)
So this bug report about the IRST camera not tracking the target and displaying it on the MFD screen was closed by a mod who says it is working as it should but yet it doesn’t track them properly.
@Smin1080p_WT, @Gunjob is it possible to get the report reopened and passed onto the devs to get it actually working? The same bug is also present on the Kurnass 2000 which the report has also been marked as fixed and yet isn’t fixed. There seems to be loads of bug reports that are marked as fixed and actually aren’t. And now with the bug reporting moderators being hidden we can’t see if it’s just a problem with just 1 mod that keeps doing this or if its an issue with several
