They’ve said no Gen 5 aircraft until at least summer next year. So I think we are safe this december.
But I do wonder what the BIG thing will be. For air, its either going to be Gen 5 IRs and/or ECM
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If they remove the stealth capability of the F-35 it would be a jet which would be a worse F-16 currently lol
Much less payload, less maneuvarbility, worse endurance…
That’s exactly why I think they might do it.
So the F-35 being a much worse F-16 in nearly every aspect except for the AESA radar and MAW is on the table…
I want IR meta back, it was so much fun…
Much worse is a stretch, I haven’t seen F-16 taking off vertically after all…
They’re just different aircraft, but I do, personally, dislike f-35 quite a bit, it looks cool though
The power-to-weigt ratio of the F-35 is worse than that of the F-16 at both minimum and maximum weight. Additionally they sacrificed maneuvarability for stealth at the F-35. Its weight to wing-surface ratio is also much worse than that of the F-16 meaning it will lose much more speed in turns as the wing-load is much higher per square meter.
So what uses does it have in War Thunder? You can’t turn fight, you have a really small payload (without external payload), its acceleration and climb is worse than that of the F-16. Radar and MAWs are the only advantages it would have ingame over the F-16 besides the EOTS integrated targeting pod.
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If you’re stuck with the F-35 then you just have to accept you have the worst 5th gen for War Thunder tbh.
I vehemently hate it in real life, and it’ll be the same in war thunder.
EFT tiers are gonna be good eating for us.
Hopefully 5th gens only fight other 5th gens.
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I think the F-35 gets overhyped.
The way Americans talk about it, you’d think it could end world hunger, find the cure to cancer and write poetry.
But in reality, its only exceptional at SEAD and just has bells and whistles that give it an edge in A2A but those arent necessarily unique. Its a bit, Meh, at everything else
The only thing that would really intrigue me when they get added is the look through cockpit stuff in SB, everything else. Im kinda not that fussed about.
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Don’t know how you expect to conduct SEAD with no standoff munitions whatsoever.
Spear-3 and Spear-EW if/when they are added.
Its the only role that I think the F-35 does actually beat out something like the EFT and purely because its stealth.
But in every other role, something else is just better
2035 integration date :)
Yeah… Hopefully, if its a capability actually needed before then. They’ll just do what they did to fit Aim-9Ls onto the SHars and make it happen, Americans be damned or it will force the Americans to actually do the intergration instead of postponing it constantly for made up nonsense reasons
I will not be satisfied till we have Eurofighter 2 electric boogaloo.
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I bet on Gen 5 IRs. That’s is the only thing that can expalin why the Tornado SLE is sitting at 12.3 with 2 missiles. If not that Gaijin lack of reality in their own game, but right, they know they game right?
Tornado Gr4 has been at 12.3 with 2x IR missile for an entire year.
I wouldnt read into it like that and I really dont want Tornado GR4 with ASRAAM or Tornado SLE with IRIS-T at 13.7 ish for the sake of it. Uptiering ground attackers to give them better A2A has never worked out well for the ground attackers.
ECM would be a far far better buff for them.
I think the better hint might be the F-16I which seems wierdly underpowered for 14.0 but would be a good fit for P4s or P5s
A bit of topic but;
Praying for Jas39NG (I’m hoping for NG instead of E as a stop gap before more modern missiles like IRIS-T and Meteor come on the E) with ECM and Datalink.
Spoiler
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Yeah. Its one of the only actual new aircraft needed this major.
Would be a good fit alongside a Typhoon with similar AESA (Gimballed) and the much needed stopgap between aircraft with Gen 5s and those without
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I’ve been saying this for ages, and they could always use the prototype PS-05/A AESA as a bit of an upgrade too
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Well not delibered yet either way.
I am still npt quite happy with aesa efts either since we dont realy have mk1s yet