Both wouldn’t be bad, large caliber is without a doubt better in WT, and 72 is not a ridiculously low number either, but having more drops is always nice imo, even if less effective.
Effect of stealth could make small more effective
You mean like there’s more of a chance that the missile seeker stays on chaff instead of re-locking on the jet?
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Yeah, it would make small cm more effective
Can the F-22 get any form of BOL for that matter?
Nope, even if it could it would all be external
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Ah that makes sense
Most useful thing it can get without risking stealth is the twin irst pods
Twin pods maybe allow for quicker and more accurate passive ranging
To cover both side no ?
Yes it will be twice faster in front compared to the sides. But I just wish it can be used as Top
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Yeah, at least F-22 is able to go very high so it’s not as big of a problem
Mach 1.82 supercruise
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Just wait for them to not give it that and claim it’s a “clear marketing lie” like they did for the eurofighter lmao
using the f-117 as an example, most aesa/pesa planes can detect it without problems at 30km+ ranges, the su-30sm2 has the longest range radar in game and can detect the f-117 at 100km+
the performance of fox 3 seekers vs the f-117 is terrible on the other hand, they can only get locks at 5km in a headon, anything above that and they stay on iog + dl or only iog if you don’t have datalink, when on iog only you can easily get out of the fov of the seeker and not even have to notch it, notching will also be much easier in the occasion that the missile actually locks you.
i don’t know exactly how much stealthier the f-22 is compared to the f-117 but cutting down all these ranges in half isn’t an unrealistic scenario (i think)
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depending on the estimate you can see F-22 from 30-55km away frontally with irbis-e, but that is in the focused power mode used to squeeze out the 400km against 3m^2 target
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yes, which is significantly more than most other 5th gens
eg su57 with ~40 iirc
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huge
now confirmed to supercruse faster than rafale top speed
also confirms top speed is at least 2.25 vs 2+ in some earlier sources
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i wonder if itll get rafale speed treatment since most sources agree it wasnt thrust or airframe limited
I don’t know how many countermeasures the F-35 has, but the J-35 has roughly the same number as the Raptor(х3 dispencer), and I’ve already spoken about the J-20
The Su-57 will compensate for this with the presence of a DIRCM
There are also patents for new countermeasure modules that increase the number of its countermeasures
there is NG variants (more range basically)