Major Update "Leviathans" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

Aye, the more 40CT cannon armed things the better

F-35 strength is it’s sensors.

No way I think, cause that will be at least three patches worth of stuff alone, there are about 5 aircrafts per nation and new IR and ARH missiles and new radars and new AG munitions, all need to come.

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do any tanks in game even have a CTA40?

I dont now why Gaijin are reluctant to add the CT-40

Not one :(

I do wonder how the F-35 is gonna perform flight wise in WT, it should have a positive TWR in normal stealth loadouts with 20 minute fuel, i wonder how they’ll model agility, if its gonna feel heavy like the f15 it’s done.

Unfortunately no

Yeah, but I doubt 1, they are going to be all implemented in game, 2, superior to latter 4.5 gens. The stealth is where it is good, and flight performance wise IDK cause it looks pretty funky.

Idk, maybe it’s too recent and info is sparse.

Or the parent vehicle is too recent/secretive

sad don

this is a travesty

2S38, Lynx and PUMA are in game

In addition to this new plane to Switzerland, will there be a pack that will include others? A bundle?

Yea…

It’s the only reason I could come up with, I’m not saying those are good reasons however

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Team must be focussing on other priorities

I wouldnt call the 40-CT warrior “too recent” when we have what gaijin is calling the challenger 3

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I don’t think it’s as bad as people make it out to be. F-35 agility can’t hold a candle to F-22 or Su-57, but that’s a very high bar.

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SACLOS works by sending guidance instructions straight to the missile, which have no own seeker. So it’s not like SARH.

DL is actually more like SARH, but with lower update frequency (which can be arbitrarily high I guess). In the end here it’s the missile which guided itself, SACLOS it’s the launch platform, like the bullpup for instance but automatic.

F-X was also originally a 5th gen project, before it shifted to a 6th gen development and eventually merged with GCAP. From that time we still have quite a lot of progress towards this aircraft like radar, weapons bays, engines, TVC and a fuselage section (among other things) having been made as well as a flying demonstrator.

X-2/ATD-X demonstrator.

While not a combat aircraft it does still make Japan one of only a few nations that flew a domestic stealth aircraft.
It’s not so much a prototype as it was a research aircraft for the project though, which is why it doesn’t resemble any of the armed designs (save for one wind tunnel model that slapped a weapons bay inside it). It also uses the cockpit section from the Kawasaki T-4

F-X 26DMU

The latest publicly known design for the 5th gen F-X program.

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More images and some built components

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26DMU internal setup. In this it still shows the wing root mounted secondary (SRM) weapons bays that were later moved to the side of the hull more akin to the configuration seen on an F-22 for example.

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26DMU built hull section and structure. This also shows the space for the main (MRM) and secondary (SRM) weapons bays.

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Prototyped radar and nose section. The radar was also fitted to ADTW F-2 501 for testing


Main (MRM) weapons bay with capacity for 6 JNAAM missiles (across 2 bays)

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XF9-1 engine and XVN3-1 TVC

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Woe, 6 unbreakable coins be upon yee.

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