You can see through the cockpit but vehicles dont appear for some reason :D
Radar while a fast scanning AESA, is a fixed plate system, which feels pretty antiquated by systems like ECRS will also be a bit of a let down.
Missile fit is a firm 6 missiles right now. 2x ASRAAM and 4x Meteor, I’m not sure how well that will do with the WT meta where spam has a quality of its own.
Its just gunna be our top tier CAS aircraft I think. All i plan to use it for
I mean they seem to be able to do it for pretty much everything else other than the Typhoons.
I’m just wondering if they will be able to make the gunsight work with those aircraft. (Again unlike the Typhoon.)
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Makes no sense. For example, rafale, SU30, J10C got their UV tint on Day 1. Eurofighter bug report still standing for over a year now.
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Even in CAS compared to a 4.5 Generation aircraft its a meagre load. 8x SPEAR while stealth, if you give up your only advantage which is RCS you can add 4xPW4 to that. Typhoon blows it out of the water for A2G capabilities.
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In terms of sustained CAS, yeah, but for SEAD ,making use of that stealth… it might be worthwhile.
Especially if SEAD mechanics are added properly to Air Sim and the stealth is actually half decent… It might be kinda fun gameplay. Otherwise yeah, Typhoon is just better.
If you’re delivering 8xSPEAR 3 in game stealthily you’re still doing it from stand off range anyway at which point the weapon is targetable by any platform. And at its max range of around 140km delivery with Typhoon or F-35 is a meaningless distinction in game other than overall capacity where a Typhoon could saturate a GBAD system with 18 launches an F-35 has a meagre 8.
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Cuz f35 is stealth slop
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I was thinking that we’d still be limited to at most 20ish km firing range but dealing with SAMs with equal or greater range than that. Where being able to use the stealth to enter and fire without having to alternative tactics like lofting PW4s for example would come into their own. Combine with just getting to the target, with the tiny map sizes and all the AESA, conventional stealth tactics no longer work.
But it is very very niche
Though this Aussie F-35A is dropping 69 flares in this video, so maybe the bins have double stacked flares?
Which would be ~96CM’s which isn’t as dog shit.
Unless its two bins per dispenser for 4x24 for 96x
Yeah that makes sense;
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I am not sure that I would be confident of 4 Meteor. We’ve never seen 4 Meteor mounted to the aircraft, nor have we ever seen Meteor on the door bay. I’ve seen some speculation that due to Meteor being bulkier and the F-35B bay not being long, they can’t stagger them as planned on the A, which is how they should fit on the A.
Yes its speculation, but we’ve only ever seen Meteor in 1 position, and we’ve only ever seen it mounted as a 4 AAM loadout when paired with AMRAAM and not with 4 Meteors.
Officially the ‘goal’ is still 4, but that’s only a goal.
Would be the final nail in the coffin if there’s any truth to that.
Perhaps we can mitigate that through Britecloud?
Would be launched from the same 96x shot bay, sure per shot BC is more effective but still not a huge quantity. I’d like to see BOL on the SRAAM pylons.
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VLO BOL to complement the external only VLO pylons might be a worthwhile investment, but as of right now only the US and Israel have the modifications rights to make that call.
I can’t help but think the whole aircraft needed to be a touch bigger, with an F-15 baseline rather than an F-16 baseline.
This would realistically be the only real use the F-35 would have. Which would be a tad funny
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I meant true representative meteors (not mockups but rather duds), and confirmation the bay can be closed.
Wouldn’t be the first time mockups existed but were deemed impractical (eurofighter cft’s).
It’s reassuring, but I’ll believe it when i see it.
I do wonder if the meteor would work with sidekick.