Too Early.
Only after all the 4th gen aircraft have been added. I don’t think Gaijin is quite ready to be modeling stealth, and there are plenty more 4th generation aircraft to add.
cries in no HMD
does this picture show stealthy weapons carriers mounted on the wings?
what are these for?
AMRAAMs?
Gonna leave it here:
Either Infrared search and track or electronic warfare system in pods with stealth shape.
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sadly thats a smooth back. F-22 pilots have long complained about HMD.
this one is just a helmet
EDIT: clarification i meant an HMD that can make use of the HOBS 9X capability
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Unfortunately, that helmet was only tested for the evaluations and didn’t pass without the official results. Not only that, they also complained about the legacy helmets being too heavy and straining on their necks.
There is a new lightweight next-gen helmet in development and tested by the F-22 Pilots. Still, the new helmet does not come with the JHMCS configuration, and there are no plans to include the JHMCS attachments in the new helmet. Here are recent images with the F-22 pilots and possible helmet configurations:
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yeah they were testing something for the 22 but i have a hunch theyre gonna say muh duh budget and retire the old flagship
They already approved the budget for the Raptor upgrades, and they can’t retire it until NGAD begins proliferation. Same reason F-15Cs are still a thing
Well, i heard something on the contrary…
The US is nearly on the verge of retiring the raptor and will focus its stealth fleet on the 35 and the new stealth bomber (i forgot the name).
Upon its retirement, the UK is going to purchase the 22 and refurbish it (far fetched as it seems they wont be getting any more than 40 airframes of which there are 32 max which are flight worthy)
Lmao, where did you read that? Eurasian times? Russia today?
no a UK source
Spoiler
Are those public or spicy docs? Or did you make them up? They have the restricted on them but I feel like that would be harder to acquire lol. They don’t look too official.
Those are from the 90s/early 2000s, while britain was looking for options outside of the ever-delayed Eurofighter program, and before the F-22 was banned from export by congress if i recall correctly. It has nothing to do with any current plans.
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They are official, but they are decades old
Yeah I was looking at the fact it mentions the soviets. Interesting plan tho. Thanks for sharing
well now theyre public lol but no. theyre no longer restricted. (national archives)
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fair
A wonderful aircraft, but far too soon. Give it a year or 3, and gaijin will also need to add other equivalent aircraft to other nations when it does come.
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