Let’s boldly imagine a premium of 100 US dollars for the F-22A
Probably not the F-22A as a premium. It has to be either YF-22 or YF-23 as a premium OR event.
Let’s not speculate about its future arrival in one of the upcoming patches. It’s not really meaningful or productive to discuss in this thread.
yes, I think its an MLU program
and I think ive heard something about better engines so might get even more insane thrust
There is a few upgrades. Like giving it HMD and just overall upgrades for its sensors and equipment.
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yeah, the IRDS upgrades will also be pretty nice
ive heard of sustaining the engines and software improves to squeeze out more thrust, but not upgrades like PW-220 to 229
Aim260 too
Definately not his december, seeing we still dont have su35, f15ex, f16 block 70 and grippen e, mig31 yet. I believe this year will fill late 4.5 gens. Next year its gonna be advanced missiles like meteor r37m and aim174b and cold war jets like mig25 and f106. Next year december we could see early variants of f22.
My best guess is that this December we won’t see shit, unfortunately. Probably better ir missiles on aircraft at best. We are pretty far from the F-15EX. Su-35 maybe not so much but idk
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Oh yes. This game has advanced so far it’s crazy.
Can’t wait for these bad boy to beat it
It can’t, if you are talking about WVR and BVR is questionable too. By the way i know gaijin tho, you might be right lmao :))
No it doesnt and if it’s added it will need to be artificially nerfed balanced.
Either no HMD and limited payload options.
F-22 correctly modelled takes over the game. Can’t lock it unless your are within 15-20km and insane flight performance…We are nowhere near this.
We dont even have ECM/EW to help the Gen 4+ counter it.
Do we play the same Typhoon?
Typhoon barely beats an F-15 in game in BVR and the F-22 is more capable in every metric. If Gaijin return the fm to what it should be then we have a chance.
Su-35S and F-15EX are all but guaranteed
Perchance the F-15 has a better acceleration and top speed, giving the missiles more energy. The F-22 shouldn’t be that far off either AND it has stealth so yeah. Nothing will come near it in BVR. Gaijin will probably put it in the game without HMD tho, as the first blocks did not have it but the F-35 will probably arrive in the same update as the 22 so i imagine that we will receive a later block of the F-22 to able to cope with the F-35, Su-57 and J-20
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Not in acceleration and any top speed limitations would be to preserve the RAM coating on the F-22.
And exchange pilots have commented on the insane thrust Typhoon has, it is faster and accelerates faster than an F-15
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what BR will this be
Now, we should have decompression to 15.0 at least. So at like 16.3 there will be the 4.5 gens and then at probably 17.3 or 17.7 or maybe even 18.0 we need to have the 5th gen
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This is simply speculation without knowing RCS of f22.
I would see it’s frontal RCS near 0.01m2 wrt to multiple rcs simulations on it online, in game. That would put it around 70 - 100km lock range frontally against modern radar systems.
It will not get hmd for earlier versions, but for the most modern versions it can get the scorpion hmd.
The main thing that puts f22 back are it’s aim120d missiles, which would lag a lot against meteors, pl15, r37m, aim174b and pl17.
While it can get aim260 in future irl, we really don’t know much on it, I would not be seeing it anytime soon in game.
Other thing which limits f22 are it’s aging sensors in comparision to, probably every 5th gen at this point, especially against f35
For wvr, it might be the best, su57 could beat f22 in wvr regards tho.