“dismantling Iran’s air force and air defense system”
Off topic, but I must have missed a chapter i think ?
Israel used F-35Is in it’s most recent adventures when striking Iran. Anecdotally, they went in first to cause all kinds of havoc in the air defence network, allowing the heavier stuff like F-15Is to do the striking.
Ha this one
Not like Iranian air defense is brand new either though
S300 is what, late 1990s system ? And it was the newest they had.
That’s a quarter of a century ago
Excepted that Hovering boost your fuel consumption and you’re overheating in about 9-10min.
Also the F-35 can enter Hovering mode at 33.000lbs, while it’s empty weight is 29.000lbs.
With such information, the F-35 would certainly keep itself on a move, and wouldn’t be blinding in it’s environment.
Even if it did hover “in a corner” → IRST and Long-Range Thermal Cameras, would easily pick the massive amount of heat staggering at one place.
And Finally,… F-35’s Coating is not a 100% absorbing radar wave, at some point, it’s still visible by Radars, as it also easily decay.
So please let me think that your F-35 isn’t going to be downed as hard as you think it is.
I said ‘HOOVERING’ - as in vacuum cleaner HOOVERING. Not hovering. E.g. it sucks up information using it’s various sensors.
It might do that quite some way away from the fighting. Nothing is invisible of course - but to find something you have to know it’s there in the first place and look in the right place, in the right way, at the right time. That’s the uncertainty where 5th Gen Stealth has it’s fun.
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If it was F-35’s with AIM-120D-3’s it would’ve gone very differently
PLAF Providing DL for J-10s and PL-15E with nearby EAWACs aircraft.
The missing energy symbology ingame makes me so sad, would be great to have in the HMD in sim
A lot of the missing bits from the HUD/HMD are honestly bummers to be missing, another great one being the missile avoidance cues
The only break down of the energy management stuff is in the manuals which we are not allowed to use, can’t add it if we can’t say what each carrot etc does.
I thought I saw something for the energy management cues somewhere that wasnt the manuals, but you might be right. Im pretty much dead sure I’ve seen the missile avoidance cues shown publicly though 🤔
Edit: this is what I was referring to for the missile evasion symbology, though the original source of the image and explanation linked on the webpage appears to have been removed.
Oh we have a report for the escape symbology already.
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Oh sweet, I didnt know! I hope it gets actionned sometime soon :)
Of all the bug reports on the EFT, this is the one I hope they fix the most though: Community Bug Reporting System
Since it makes the HUD unusable in VR 😭
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Not much I can do on that front, we just gotta wait for the fix.
Edit; I did nudge it as its now relevant to 2.49
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Having UK voice cues would also be fanstastic!
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I would like to point out that even in the absence of exact info, we have things like the “airbrake on” warning for NATO jets that straight up doesn’t exist on most of them, so I don’t think the VWS is that bound to reality.
Isnt it just the F-16s VWS C&Ped onto the rest of them?
Genuinely elite ball knowledge 😆
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Well we know Typhoon has a posh English woman for the voice cues
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“Oh I do say, evade that missile on your 6 O’clock my dear, it’d be an awful shame not to deploy chaff and flares too”
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