If AESA becomes the standard at top tier (which I would not be surprised about) then CAPTOR-E equipped Typhoons will be needed sooner rather than later.
I also suspect we are not far off Aim-120C5s entering the arsenal, at which point I would assume they would just be straight upgraded with those at the moment.
If translated from moderator to human language. Smin says that the first Typhoon will be crap, like the same MiG-29 (GDR) without the R-73, but the next ones will be better, like the MiG-29G
Mmmkay?
Exactly what I mean, they have added aircraft which set a standard too high for the natural progression of technology, instead of PESA J-10B we now need AESA J-10C, etc
Not really, certainly not until mica is fixed. The aesa, even though tracks really well, takes tons of time to refresh and establish new tracks. EW is completely missing which is HUGE part of Rafale.
It aint really better in current meta than F-15E/I. If they fix radar bug with scan pattern, Typhoon will be better too but its held back by bug affecting every radar and EF/Flankers are affected the most.
I would go as far as every F-15C is on par/better due to spamraam capabilities and good radar and J-10 even with ist current radar aint no slouch either, both BVR and BFM. Who suffers hard is russia and sweden.
isnt rafale F3R from 2013 or 2014 aswell? they really went too far with this update
This whole issue started with the F-15E, it has caused a rift between what the natural progression of the game is, and the warped version we are in currently, after the Fox-3 patch (which saw the heavier fighters already more dominant like F-15C) and a slight step in the right direction with the J-10, which made the meta more balanced but only for a small portion of the playerbase.
Then they jumped to an aircraft with monumental amounts of thrust, amazing radar, amazing BVR performance, best CAS ability in game and overall the best multirole we have ever seen, being the best CAS and best Fighter rolled up into one, and only accessible to 2 trees. Now gaijin’s solution was to provide the nation who would play it the most with a variant which was downgraded to prevent the situation that we got in game (completely one sided dominance) and give Israel a variant with limited CAS ability in favour of the good engines, however the -229 forums incident meant that top tier ARB was dominanted by what was essentially a typhoon, forcing gaijin to rush this update with little care for the balance of the game overall, instead of adding 4.5 gens they should’ve simply nerfed the F-15E and focused on another section of their supposed agenda.
HMS was added during covid iirc
Captor M so good it’s tracking satellites
it was added with the F-4J and then Mig-29 AFAIK
are you talking about on the rafale or in game?
2018
rafale
wasnt that when testing started?
kinda ridiculous imho
Mirage 2000D RMV is from 2021
the F3R is the one that also can carry Meteor, unlike the EFs we have ingame
Nope, introduced 2018. F.4 is from last year (which we are more or less getting now).
And to think that the french mains would riot if we got a typhoon from this decade
Well, if you notice, i mentioned radar being screwed by bug that affects all radars but given typhoons most useful 60*11 scan which takes whopping ±8 seconds to refresh first bar, its most affected and it sucks. If they fix that bug. Top bar will be refreshed each ±3,5 seconds.
theyd freak out if US got the F-15EX or QA, or even a 2005 spec F-22
even an upgraded F-15E, or 1990 YF-22 or YF-23 would make them quite unhappy