F-117 could come as a premium, could come as an event vehicle, could be an SQV, could even come on the TT. Its impossible to know.
I’d guess event as said, because its common for event vehicles to be used as test beds, but not always.
That’s if the F-117 is ever added. 2x GBUs and no A2A makes it a very weak and difficult to place aircraft. The closest I can think is something like the Buc S1 which has no A2A at all, but reasonable A2G for its BR, nor have we gotten something like a Mosquitto bomber (no guns but same bomb load as the B-17)
It would be a really difficult aircraft to place. (though the split BRs helps greatly for that, because it could be like 9.3 in air and 10.3/10.7 in ground) but at which point, nothing has radar and thus no point in adding something with stealth
My guy, you’re about as fast as a harrier as far as I know, you have no gun, no missiles, just some bombs that aren’t really enough to bomb a base…
In Air RB it’s likely going to be placed around 9.0-10.0, and likely a LOT higher in ground RB due to its stealth advantage.
If its not THE stealth bomber then they need to fire whoever made that decision and all that went along with it. the F117 is what we all think of when someone says “stealth plane” right?
I mean it will probably be at a BR where its stealth capabilities don’t matter because it was slow, had a bad payload and is a famously crap flyer, but its too damn cool as the pin-up girl of stealth to not be the first
I’m gonna go against the grain of everyone else here who said F-117, and throw in Rafale.
The Rafale, while it is not a VLO (very low observability) aircraft like the F-117 or 5th gen fighters, it still has a very respectable low-observability signature. The Rafale will likely be the reason for introducing stealth mechanisms into the game for it and these mechanisms should be tested on the Rafale in order to properly be implemented on 5th gen fighters.
But the Rafale is not “true” stealth
Yes in its dev stealth was kept in mind but its not anywhere near the lvl of other pure stealth AC.
I mean if u want to u can add the Eurofigher aswell and i am pretty sure here are some others.
true the Rafale is a bit better than the EF but not by much.
the Rafales RCS is said to be about 0,5m²
wheres he EF is beween 0,5 and 1m²
and about the intakes yes they are boxy wich is not the best for stealth but its the same S duct that the Rafale uses
i mean here thats the radar cross section of it and no its not a secret doc
Spoiler
and about active stealth same applies for the EF it also has Radar Jammers or Cross Eye
Not correct. The actual rcs is understood to be about 0.01m^2 frontally. The question asked was basically, what aircraft would bring stealth mechanics into the game, the answer is Rafale.
The leading edge of the canards do show up for the Eurofighter and presumably this is for the best case scenario, head-on.
The point is that the air intakes is visible from the front if the enemy aircraft is at a lower alt compared to the Eurofighter looking directly up into it’s engines. This is not the same for the Rafale.
This would also be the case for the Rafale as both leading edges are Titanium.
Its not from a headon but from slightly below u can see the teststand in the pic.
i dont disagree with that as the Rafale is a doublle S duct and the EF only single S
For like TRUE stealth it would most likely be the F-117. Any other modern stealth fighter is probably (and hopefully) far off in the future as almost all capabilities they have aren’t implemented game mechanics yet so it would be basically pointless before then.
What i personally think is more likely to come first is the addition of Electronic Warfare and thus also Stealth by radar jamming and fake target generation. This would be easier to implement as its basically one or two mechanics and then just add it to the planes that have it internally and design the EW-pods for those planes that carried/carries them.
