Yeah no one will be left on the side, there will be f-35 for like 75% of the tech tree in the game lol
A & B even
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5th gen fighters before Hungary low tier air is crazy
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There we go then, some hope for Japan afterall. I don’t remember hearing about them getting F-35’s, when did this happen?
yeah, the UK will probably one the weaker end due to only having Bs but eh it shouldn’t be that much of a meaningful difference
Low vis Japanese roundel looks so silly lol
It’s just a light gray circle
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Order was 2011, first delivery 2016
yeah was thinking the exact same
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to bad that wasnt a Su-57
That’s completely irrelevant as fixing exposed panels doesn’t make a aircraft any magically better in a substantial way, the exposed panels were only one of the main issues Chinese citizens had with the T-50-7 (the T-50-4 wasn’t the one on display). Additionally, many of the issues those said prototypes have still are concurrent on the SU-57 which doesn’t make its case any better.
SU-57 exposed sensor (IRST?)
F-35 EOTS, not exposed
J-20 sensor (FLIR?), not exposed as well
it is like comparing the YF-16 to the F-16 or
The US does actually know how to make aircraft and improve them over their original prototypes, apparently Russia can’t learn from their mistakes and continue to do this over and over again - don’t compare apples to literal poop.
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Really? Literally the first time I’m hearing about this. I genuinely don’t know how I missed that.
I mean people have been saying every nation will get F-35 except for China and Russia right?
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those sensors are still exposed, with the only difference that the housing has a different shape
And what part of aircraft design significantly affects stealth?
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Whilst you’re right about them being “technically exposed”, looking from a RCS standpoint they aren’t, the entire point of those covers is to minimise radar cross-section, aka stealth optimized. Russia didn’t even try and said “f*ck it” lmao.
And even still we could theoretically see one of the DMU designes
F-35A with AIM-9X must be with the new stealthy variant
Yea Japan will be fine since F-35 but I’ll be playing the F-2 till the heat death of the universe lol. Looking forward to F-2 vs Gen 5 though. Actually does sound like fun imo