keep doing that stuff anyway, i simply responded since i was talking about the mig35 while hes taking it as for the chinese tech tree.
to help you out, fake plane and wepons was about the mig35 and how the game give fake wepons. while bugs reports was about chinese buffs being refused.
I think there was a non-flyable mockup with similar camo, though I don’t have the IRL picture:
And I did mention specifically that it’s “what if” in the sense that service aircraft didn’t have AESA (which holds true). I however, never denied that demonstrators were tested or were mounted with AESA radar.
It’s the exact same airframe, but for the static demonstration tail and potentially wing was replaced.
On photo it has it’s old tail and potentially wing back and can take off into the air.
Airframe number 741 is also equipped with Zhuk-AE. It’s original classification was MiG-29M but it is used as MiG-35 technology demonstrator by RSK MiG
741 also features Zhuk-AE with full array of TRM installed, 154 only had a dish with reduced amount. Not sure of the 747 fate tbh, but it also might have Zhuk-AE installed since there was 2 radars produced
747 is also in hands of MiG and serves as MiG-35 tech demo. Radome is different from Zhuk-M equipped KR and MiG-35 but it’s also different from 741 so I dunno what’s inside
It also has a fancy Su-57 like HUD and a giant single piece MFD
Currently, the 37 aircraft in service use mechanical radars; an AESA radar was always a possibility but was never ordered, and the only Russian aircraft with an AESA radar is the Su-57.
I’m not against the MiG-35; it has AESA radars in the game. In my post, I even said I understood the decision to include it.
I only used the MiG-35 example to show how Gaijin employs selective realism and makes extremely strange and contradictory decisions regarding Chinese aircraft.
and this is a pattern that has been repeating itself patch after patch
China lost all its competitive aircraft that relied on the PL-12 after the PL-12 was nerfed.
Their Rank IX aircraft aren’t competitive and have been completely ruined by highly questionable decisions on Gaijin’s part.
Its most modern 4.5-generation indigenous fighter, the backbone of its air force, with 400 units in service, is simply extremely poorly represented in the game.
The MiG-35 is a good example of how a fighter jet can be well implemented in the game.
The J-16 and other fighters (from other nations) should receive this same level of attention in their implementation, especially if the aircraft sits at the end of the tech tree.
gaijijn copied the radar so they consider it the same, plus the distance between the j10 landing gear is smaller than the air intakes from the j11/j15/j16 so it has plenty space to fit them