I don’t know about J-10B, very very little information on it exists even in China, we don’t even know the type of radar it uses (PESA or AESA) and there is more info on both J-10C and even J-16 (J-16 radar is designated Type 1493D apparently). Gaijin may wait to add J-10C instead.
J-11B will not only have radar and missile upgrade, but it is also 700 kilograms lighter in empty weight and later batches have more powerful engines, which may finally bring decent flight performance for the Flanker platform.
Yeah… Im on the fence whether F-15C needs the AESA upgrade. But knowing Gaijin/the US Mains. They’ll add something like the F-2 with AESA then throw a massive tantrum and get the AESA radar for most of their top tier aircraft before the dev server has even ended
At least for the US folks the APG-63(V)2 went into service at a similar timeframe even though the F-2 takes the crown for the first new production aircraft with AESA radar.
Given the F-15E complaints, it seems only natural and Gaijin themselves stated the F-2 would arrive when other nations come in with ESA radars too.
The F-15C with AESA would be good much later down the line when things like the Typhoon T3/4 and maybe even fifth gen fighters come. Right now, however, America has more than enough and quite a few things between now and then, like the F-16E bl 60.
Indeed, the F-2, which is a 4++ generation aircraft, will appear in the game along with comparable aircraft from other nations
Later they did say the F-2 will come in one of their hotline Q&As but wasn’t added at the time due to the radar advantage. So once that’s narrowed down, no reason not to.
Developer’s response:
LJDAM has been tested on both the assta (basic version) of the WTD61 regiment and on the 3.0 and later 3.1 as the main armament system.
Because with this in mind it should speak for LJDAM on the WTD61 Tornado but not the ASSTA1
why not leave f15e where it is with what it has now, then give F-15C an/apg 63v2 or 3 (v2 added a lot of weight while v3 brings that weight back down to about what it was before, and is more advanced) and put it at same BR as EFT and rafale?
yes, pretty much. a true current F-15C can be added a little later down the line.
i mean the APG-70 was the radar of the F-15E for most of its service life, they only put the APG-82(V)1 in them pretty recently, and it would be completely unbalanced if it had the 82v1
They didn’t explicitly say that it’d come with other AESA carriers, so there’s still the possibility that it could come with aircraft with later PD radars, especially considering that only the latest Typhoons have AESA radars.
Yea, it’s tricky because the later aircraft that do have AESA are very capable compared to the F-2, especially in terms of armament. So if Gaijin waits too long, F-2 is DoA which just seems unfitting for an iconic aircraft.
The early XF-2A with a PD radar really should have been added in Air Superiority or Alpha Strike. Adding it now would be like adding the Su-33. It would be severely underperforming, since it can’t use Fox-3s. The F-2A I reckon should be added in the December update or in one of the first two updates of next year.
PESA radar, which is a back up solution if AESA not progress well. But AESA development is quickly and nicely down so J-10B only produced a few. They should be very similar except the radar