Look at the year gaps between Russia and USA’s tech tree, Americas top tier is stuck in the 80’s while Russia is using stuff that was put into service 10-20 years ago. I’m not sure about other countries, but that is still outrageous, especially when most air spawns in ground br are right in locking range of the Pantsir ( Russian spaa from late 2010’s). Or how the F15E was put into service in the early 80’s while the SU-34 was put into service 10 years ago.
Service dates are meaningless.
RU’s stuff is generally more modern, because their ‘parity’ items were behind the ‘west’ after the USSR collapsed.
They’re not just going to add stuff based on dates, because then the US would just dominate top tier air RB, and the game would suck for the other 9 countries.
(Also, what you say about F-15’s being from the 80’s isn’t entirely accurate. They have features like the HMS, which I believe was added to them in the 2000’s).
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