i mean just look at the jump from december 2023 with the Su-27 and F-15A, to 2024 with the F3R Rafale and T2/3 Typhoon. Late model Rafale and Typhoon to F-22 is less of a jump than base Su-27 and F-15A to the same aircraft
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i like it am actually excited for this haha and the best part is that everybody will have one XD soo… no balance problem at all.
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so ready.
but personally. with the talk of delays in leaks, F-22 being december while F-35 is first update of 2026 might happen.
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what do you think chat, F-22 under what line?? F-15C line or F-16C line?
F-15C line without question. ill put 1000 GE on that for anyone who wants to bet on it
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I was talking about in-game.
i mean we could see the american F-35 being pushed back to next year and the rest reciving it for obvious reasons thats a posibility.
i was thinking the same, in my opinion does not make sense to be under the F-16C but sometimes gaijin do strange things and the only line that i dont have yet its the F-16C line i have all the rest XD
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dont think that would happen. they might just nerf the F-22 stealth as an interim solution
the F-35A probably going there since 1. its replacing the F-16’s lol, and 2. its a single seat (relatively) light fighter
nah gaijin will add a lot of fifth gen specially knowing that the F-35s are mostly copy and paste with just a few differences between each one.
I don’t see any reason they’d put F-22 before F-35…
F-22 is clearly more capable just from missile payload alone, never mind flight performance. That is coming later than F-35 if not at the same time.
I’m honestly just betting it all gets delayed.
I am not looking forward to the absolute sh*tstorm when people realise bug reporting using that calculated Su-57 RCS graph gets declined because it isn’t the literal RCS of the actual plane.
F-22 and other stealth aircraft are either going to be completely broken OP that it renders top tier unplayable for anyone without steatlh or they wont model the stealth and the US mains will throw a huge tantrum.
Either way, would just be best to not add stealth to top tier.
Not exactly like either US or USSR are suffering without
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I think it is very noticable and conspicuous that J-35 was not mentioned in the leak.
Yeah that’s the logical route
US fighters can be broadly categorized as high or low end, which up until now has been F-15 and F-16 respectively. High has twin engine, low has single engine. The F-22 and F-35 continue this tradition.
High and low here is in relation to each other. F-35 or F-16 is not low end haha
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the F-35 needs more advanced sensors modeled and relies on having top end missiles. the F-22 sensors are generally just better versions of what is already ingame. it also can comfortably use weaker missiles like the early C model AMRAAM’s and AIM-9M so there is no pressure to add like AIM-120C-7 or AIM-120D to aircraft
I do wonder how much people expect stealth to carry, with these current missiles it won’t make much of a difference because in the ranges you can use them you’ll be able to detect and lock stealth aircraft anyway
Yes, but Su-30SM has one of the best radars and the flight performance is awful. Look how that’s performing.
F-35 is more advanced, depending on who you ask, but for War Thunder you need speed, energy retention and high pull to do anything. F-22 is absolutely superior in those regards.
Plus Gaijin can frankenstein the F-22 into some 2026 modernisation or whatever that carries all the OP missiles or whatever, if they so choose.
I think Gaijin wouldn’t, they’d be foolish if they did, add a F-22 with weaker weapons at some lower BR. It’s still absurdly fast and carries decent quantities of weapons.
Yea, I fully expect no stealth modeling so that existing Gen 4s and Gen 4.5s will have equal footing against these Gen 5 planes
Reality is not fun