Gen 5 IIR missiles would be a harsh environment for anyone to play in if they don’t have an aircraft with MAWS. IIRC, it was said on a Russian dev-stream that they would like to add more aircrafts with MAWS to more nations before adding IIR missiles, otherwise it would just be another Typhoon/Rafale dominating everyone else situation. Su-35S for Russia, J-10C for China, not sure about the US but I know it will be painful for them if they’re getting deleted from 30-40km out from an IIR missile that they had no warning of (but historically accurate).
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Yes, there’s absolutely zero reason we wouldn’t see other Eurocanards that have AESA.
well nobody said sth about needing to add the “extreme” long range IIR missles at the start.
Replacements for the Aim 9M and R-73 range of missles would do it for now.
Lets face it, Rafale doesnt need IIR missles right now, considering their Mica is still the strongest short range missle right now
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and most of the options for nations would have atleast 15-20km of range on the low end
Tbf, the R-73 in game already has a stated 35km launch range, for some reason
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the 15-20km is effective range and not max range
and thats on the low end for the next gen missiles
Smin stated IIR missiles would come for all nations at the same time.
Asraam trough indian rafales.
Nobody says it needs to be the mica
Indian aircrafts are slated for UK, this is unfortunately out of the question. And they never equipped ASRAAM to my knowledge.
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ok so you can get the indian double rails for your aircraft but not the asraam?
Gajin doesnt care about who used what. if its integrated you are good to get them
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But again, no proof of Asraam being integrated or on what pylons and etc.
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bc the indians dont use the asraam on the rafale
they use it on the su30
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ehh i dont know anymore. to much of a mishmash country
maybe they integrated the ASRAAM on the rafale, but then there are no documents or pictures confirming it, so for the sake of this argument they didnt
What Indian double rails you speak of?
Typically being the keyword here. Last year’s was quite large and I think the amount of stuff added was one of the reason the December update was « late » (compared to usual schedule), as they needed to crunch more to get even more new models.
I think October would be on the of best update to introduce AESA radars to currently available planes (hopefully not through a completely new research for just a radar and new skin), as it would require less new models and give more time for devs to work on December update which is usually the hype update of the year with the June one
It was only really the DX12/Ray Tracing that caused it to be late.
Im personally guessing ARM maybe this update. SEAD would be about the right size
Following Smin messages for the previous major updates, I’m not sure IIR missiles for planes are coming this year. I would personally put my bets on June 2026 at the earliest, maybe after 5th gen aircraft’s even.
it wasnt really the ammount of content but rather gaijin having issues with the ray tracing implementation
the planes added (besides the F-117) werent really that unique and more or less only variations of already existing airframes or with slightly different 3D models that are building of already existing stuff