both are fast high altitude interceptors with only a few Medium range AAMs
Only from the perspective of time!! ::)
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OMG this will be the fastest plane in War Thunder. Yes!
I forgot to look this up.
Glad I did, cause this would be neat.
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I honestly think that this should be added to the game, but only as an AI aircraft. It could make an appearance as an AI controlled reconnaisance aircraft for EC maps.
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+1 for Dreams Come True. It technically could be added, but it wouldn’t be practical, so it would best fit either as the prize, or as a squadron vehicle.
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Considering how heavy the aircraft is, that’s a funny meme.
Only at 60,000 feet. The lawn mowing fights that happen in WT would make it less than useless. Plus most of it information is still completely classified, so can guarentee it wouldnt even be able to come close to its IRL speed.
I’ve determined a preliminary BR for this aircraft: ~10.7
Pulse doppler radar, 3 SARH missiles with IR terminal phase.
I really want this for March 2025 after the Mig-31 in December.
It’d be a perfect speed creep of the fastest jets of War Thunder.
F-111F, F-15E, Mig-31, YF-12.
You could put the XB-70 in between the Mig-31 and YF-12 for ~10.7 as well as a mach-3 conventional supersonic bomber and add YF-12 for June 2025.
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Until you realize it’s not even remotely close to
The planes listed Just goas Very fast at high altitude
Max airspeed is below 900kmh
While it is Pulse doppler it’s the First one
So Very early pulse doppler like the F4j and f14a/b
So probably its front aspect only and can get ground clutter in some situations
And it’s tws mode can only Track a single Target
And has only 3 missiles which are the predecessor of the aim54
Your determined br seams resonable
Maybe even a tick lower at 10.3
But it could also go all the way up to 11.0 if it really manages to stay save from missiles and other aircraft by just zooming across the map at extreme altitudes 24km+
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The AIM 47 it had are also Nuclear tipped with a 0.25KT warhead
the Sh-3 seaking could carry a nuclear depth charge too
The W42 nuclear option for the AIM-47 was cancelled early in the missile development stage. The plannned operational fit was 100lb HE only.
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I could be wrong here and if I am I apologise, but the radar unit in the nose of the YF-12A’s was directly used for aircraft like the F-14 (or atleast I think it may have been a model that eventually lead directly to the F-14’s).