Yea, I’d say remove BOL from planes that already have ample CMs at their tier and use BOL as more of a tool to balance (like how A-10s get 9Ls).
I just don’t think Gaijin like to add good planes with insane flight models at a lower BR by intentionally restricting them, it usually doesn’t happen very often.
It makes sense with F-2A which is a competitive dogfighter to some of the best planes, but F-22A would blow most of them out of the water as I understand it.
Basically F-22 flight performance is too strong for them to do the under-BR thing.
Yeah. Or like with the Harrier T10. Just limit the amount they have.
no, all 3 US F-15 should have them to balance out advantages of other nation F-15 and other planes
F-15A is probably the perfect example.
Gaijin likes to tax planes to higher BR if they have good flight performance.
Like they’d never take F-15 with the strongest engines and give it the worst possible AIM-7 and AIM-9 just to put it at 11.3 or something.
They always do the opposite.
But they rarely change a plane much once it is added, with the ARH patch being a notable exception.
AIM-9M was the hot new thing, it was added to F-15A.
F-2A without HMD is stripped of good equipment, which also allows the flight performance to shine.
F-22A doesn’t need any help for the flight performance to shine and if they didn’t add early Eurofighter and Rafale without HMD I can’t see them doing it to F-22.
thats completely inaccurate though.
the F-22 only got HMD operationally a couple months ago and it was tested only a couple years back. no HMD F-22 is accurate
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Their literal golden rule is Armament/Ammunition is a balance factor. Being able to use it doesn’t mean it automatically gets it.
If there’s nothing stopping, say, F-15A from running with AIM-9B and AIM-7D they might consider that legitimate. They only tend not to do something if it is impossible, like how F-22A (probably but idk) cannot use AIM-7 of any kind.
My point here was AIM-9M is added to F-15A partially because new shiney weapon goes on new shiney plane and also it keeps the BR higher.
didnt know they shot HMD’s at enemy aircraft. and they still go for the accurate loadout for the most part for the F-15’s and similar aircraft
My understanding is, the F-22 without thrust vectoring is comparable to existing aircraft like the F-16C, but with it, will be more maneuverable at the cost of speed. So I’d imagine it’s going to be a lighter Su-30SM. Not really a threat to any dogfighter. I mean, IIRC, people were talking about how eurocanards beat the F-22 in training dogfights so it’s not some super weapon.
The stealth part is the more interesting aspect because if it can get launches off before someone can launch back, already at an advantage in BVR. The caveat being, will they model it at all for it to matter. Otherwise the F-22 seems pretty benign.
Actually I already see something like the Su-57, if modeled with that DIRCM I saw mentioned earlier, being a bit of a pain to deal with
It suprecruises at Mach 1.7.
It will be the fastest plane added to date, probably outspeeding the F-111 on the deck.
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doubt it, the F-111 was made to haul ass on the deck
Maybe at altitude, except most players won’t go past 5km lol
I assume KF-51 will be on the Hungarian (Italian) tree?
Basically from TWR alone it is not going to be anywhere near this. It is pretty much guaranteed to be at least on par with the Eurocanards, which happen to be the best dogfighters in the game.
still insanely fast. according to test pilot the F-22 at mach 2 feels like riding in a luxury car
So, being american, its fine in straight lines, but doesnt understand what a corner is?
:P
German Typhoons beat F-22s in WVR dogfights and that was without AMK.
Though the Typhoon is underperforming a lot at the moment in game
an F-22 without TVC, on full combat load, is still able to beat a slick F-16 in ideal dogfight config at very high altitude and fries it at lower alt and/or lower speed
Sure, but need to factor in the WT conversion factor where things are nerfed to not break the game engine and/or balance.
AFAIK it’s only comparable with TVC which is not a good thing. It’s like saying the Su-30 is comparable to eurocanards with AoA limiter off. That being said, while the eurocanards are the best, even planes like the Gripen and now F-2 can actually dogfight them to the point that pilot skill plays the greater factor. So I’m not worried about the F-22 reaching anything new meta wise without stealth (which is also why I feel like stealth won’t be modeled so they can fit it in the December update, all the hype with zero downsides)