Stealth doesn’t mean invisible, it means hard to detect.
If for example the Pantsir could only see it at 5 KM, or when it opens the bomb bay to deploy a weapon, that would be relatively balanced.
Reduce the range and effectiveness of detection/lock/tracking and/or buff the effectiveness of its countermeasures and you’ve got a pretty good balance.
Separate air and ground BRs, that’s it.
~8.3 for air RB, 10.x for ground RB.
I’m mostly worried about its power as a zomber and the consequent sim rewards nerf.
I love how they paint it to be an accident instead of an intentional trap 🤣
Thats not level of 10.x for GRB
More like 9.7, it lacks of CMs, RWR, Fkight perfomance
Qnd only 2 hardpoints
I would say 10.7 at a minimum. Needs to face threats like ADATS, Pantsir, and 2S6, not Stormer AD’s and other sub par units.
It would basically be similar to Ar 234 B-2 in air rb, no guns or missiles and a below average payload which might not even be able to take out a base completely in one run
Leaving a bunch of targets for the F111 to clean up would be historically accurate 🤣
Sad thing is I don’t think it can even reach the bases before they are all taken out by F-111 and Tornados. This thing’s max speed is only around 1000 km/h. If they don’t give it an air spawn it is hopeless in air rb
A-6E.
Countermeasures doesn’t matter in ground RB except against other aircraft.
2S6 is inferior to both of those, and no it doesn’t.
Genuinely makes no sense why they even added this thing.
DoA.
8.3 AIR BRUH NO WAY
im gonna cry dude if they put it at 8.3 imagine trying to both find and shoot down an f-117 in an f3d or an f-86k or a javelin dude
Countermeasures were never proven nor disproven (classified) so I wouldn’t be surprised if they give it CMs just because
Generic sidenote I know people want stealth fighters but oh my god that would be MISERABLE to play against
Would’ve taken a TT A6 Intruder over this
In an air battle the plane will be at least useless, you will have two 2000lb bombs at most so not even enough to destroy a base, you are subsonic, you cannot defend yourself, you turn like a brick and your acceleration is non-existent (the plane has between 0.3 and 0.4 weight/power ratio)
indeed he will find himself at a surprising BR for such a modern plane but he will still not be able to do anything
I’m aware it sucks for A2A, I’m pointing out the absurdity of it being at 8.3
Finding F-117 is easy in air RB, you just go to a friendly base.
I think they’ll implement the stealth kinda like how it’s really hard to lock a heli using IR missiles, or they make it like how Radar goes janky when a locked plane goes behind an obstruction, but just always that kind of janky.
still lockable, just hard or janky.
it’s basically an A-4E Early without any guns or missiles
unfortunately it will be the only Br where it will perhaps be playable, I can’t see it higher and lower it would make even less sense