Makes sense, its not Russian.
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Nuclear Thunder SPAA making CAS seem like its not OP at all LOL
TLDR (because I tend to yap), it’s too soon for IIR missiles and Gaijin likes to add things across the board and not leave it to one nation only (F-14A being the exception for obvious reasons). Give it ~3 more updates (end of year at the latest, if not early '27) and they should be here, likely limited to current and/or future ~14.7+ aircraft.
(We like to incrementally increase the suffering by limiting which BR range has what technology/capability)
“Gaijin likes to add things across the board and not leave it to one nation only”
How are you coming to this conclusion?
Anyways, it’d be logical to leave out Eurofighters and Rafales until 5th gens arrive, that would 100% be heavily in their favor until 5th Gens arrive
When is the update dropping
I assume that’s intended:
If you think they should have it then you can make a historical report for it. You can report it here: Gaijin.net // Issues (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about)
A guide on how to report can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)
for historical issues they have some requirements for sources:
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Appreciate the feedback. Also, PLEASE don’t go through with that “man in the loop” nonsense for it will, without certainty, destroy top tier ground RB. It’s toxic enough without that mechanic.
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Nah, they’re still enjoying the money from D’assault currently
Pattern recognition
Why?
Golden eagles farm form bad players :=
By the way, I’m curious to know if they’re actually going to include IIR or if it’ll just stay as it is in the game at the moment
Wdym why?
The EFT and RFL are obviously better at dictating the terms of an engagement than things like the F-16CM/V, Superhornet, J10, Gripen. Missiles like the AIM-9X, PL-10, R-74M, are better used in WVR engagements. Thats still likely in the Eurocanards favor, and giving them things like the MICA IR and IRIS-T nullifies even that
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No one seems to get it right when it come about next-generation missiles, such as the AIM-9X, Iris-T and MICA-IR, these missiles can withstand enough G-forces and AoA to end any dogfight. The next generation of IR missiles will finally force players to use positioning, because dogfights are a death sentence.
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Yeah just look at dcs with the 9x there. Instant violation of the aircrafts structural integrity if a 9x is fired, 90% of the time.
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If the ECM from earlier on in the B-52 event was any indication, I think they’ll initially use the current implementation (IIRC it’s a merger of the two types of IRCCMs?) and work on it later.
Either we all eat, or nobody does.
Artificially holding back Eurofighters and Rafales (you can throw the Su-30SM2 in there too) after they’re already in-game makes about as much sense as telling everyone else they should have waited for equivalent aircraft before getting MRAAMs, IRCCM missiles, ESA radars or any other capability advantage.
If we accept the logic that Eurofighters and Rafales should be held back until 5th gens arrive because they’re currently better at dictating engagements (a highly subjective claim in itself…), then where does that stop? Do we tell the F-35, Su-57 and J-20 they can’t have their stealth characteristics until 6th generation aircraft arrive?
If new technology is ready to enter the game, it should enter the game. The solution isn’t to permanently handicap a handful of aircraft until everyone else catches up.
That means whe can get the AIM-260
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? Obviously lol
Just one… slight problem. We know next to nothing about it. The best we can hope for (for now) is AIM-120D-3 or AIM-174B for USA
I guess that would work along with the F-22
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Well, su57 is roughly as stealthy as a Rafale, they are both reduced cross section fighters. Not stealth. Well the russians claim the su57 is stealth…
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And even if it were stealth… it doesn’t matter the top tier in War Thunder is all about AESA radars on 100km x 100km maps they can detect any stealth aircraft as soon as it spawns . No aircraft is invisible they never have been they are just difficult to detect
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