Currently, yes. The Rafale’s radar is a placeholder however.
REAL and TRUE, verified by real japan air mains
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2030 is a bit early.
better up the BR ceiling to 14.3 and put the XF-2 there. It’ll be fine.
Didn’t the latest Mi-8 get an AESA?
Yeah and before that the ASRAD-R already had an AESA for a long time.
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if you use sensor view in a replay, you can see the missile go from trk to iog+dl and back to trk if they notch the missile but not you. heres an example with timestamp:
it absolutely does phone home and use the radar on the jet
Either something changed or that’s a bug. Maybe @k_stepanovich can answer once again if Fox 3 missiles can go back from TRK to IOG+DL instead of just IOG as their previous answer said it should not only be able to go to IOG.
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New Kfir event aircraft will get AESA yet another aircraft with AESA and not a single F-2 variant/prototype in the game what a joke.
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Rafale gets an AESA radar too bro…
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Yup 2 planes now with it…yet the aircraft that set that standard missing…
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Its that they don’t really care about Japan and just throw a low effort Sub-TT in our faces hoping that would shut us up.
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Really wish to riot. I mean, F-2A’s ONLY feature was radar. And now they want to add plane with more ARH missiles, better airframe, more air-to-ground payload AND AESA radar. What a joke…
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Peak Gaijin moment
I know that as Chinese main I cannot complain, since J-10A and Mirage 2000 was added in the last few updates, but J-10B is something comparable to EFT and Rafale and yet Gaijin mysteriously seems to have delayed it.
F-2A and J-10B would have made sense for this update as well.
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I mean, there’s also the whole thing about being just about the most agile “F-16” derivative, known for up to 12G FCS limit and some more fun stuff like Maneuver Enhancement and Decoupled Yaw like F-22/35 have.
Which would be a great entry into a dogfight niche at top tier if it had HMD to properly make use of it
Gaijin already made the mistake to basically skip this aspect of the F-2 in favor of arguing how advanced the radar would be, but then just decided to implement AESA in a way that it isn’t even as big of a change and implement ARH missiles in a way they barely even rely on datalink anyways. Now it is limited to being some niche aircraft probably just under top tier.
Just about the only good thing about the F-2 delay is that we might get an F-2A / J-10B/C teaser, and that is only in the unlikely case they won’t give the US another teaser feature, this time for their F-18…
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Imagine if the trailer they showed F-2A merging with J-10B like they did in Air Superiority trailer, which would be sick. Unfortunately I don’t expect that kind of treatment for vehicles of minor nations, lol.
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Yeah, as much as that would just be an amazing trailer, I am already expecting something along the lines of:
“China already had their teaser last year, nobody cares about F-2, USA is starving for a teaser”
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I was surprised that China even was the main focus of the Dance of Dragons update.
I would’ve expected J-10A to only get like 2 seconds of screentime.
I really wish Japan to get an update trailer focused on them, maybe the F-2A.
This is all wishful thinking though.
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Realistically (at the very least for air) China is gradually replacing Russia’s role from now on, having basically superior derivatives of Russian planes and their own more advanced aircraft especially entering 5th gen era.
It’s more surprising that Gaijin seems to think the exact opposite and makes their aircraft just worse copies of the Russian ones so far.
Yeah that would be really nice. And with either J-10B delayed to next update or possibly J-10C next update (depending on if J-10B is added now or not), that would make for a great F-15 / Su-27 “rivalry” dynamic in the teaser.
Or if they really have to they can always do an Apex Predators style dynamic featuring the F-18 as well
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I don’t blame Gaijin entirely for this.
It’s more of Gaijin selectively choosing to add the variants that don’t feature much improvement, so that they aren’t outright better for now. For example, J-11B would be unfair to add when Su-27SM was being added.
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I would say, early version with AAM-3/4 and without HMD won’t be that powerful. But for later version we must wait for advanced IR and ARH missiles. But with AAM-5 this plane is gonna be awesome in dogfight. Unfurtunately, dogfighting is not really common at these BRs. Even gripen is good basically for it’s controllability at high speeds. And I’m not sure that F-2 will have gripen style, rather than F-16 style controllability.
Also, they can rebalance ARH missiles by adding properly working datalink. With AESA radar and even AAM-4 this thing gonna crack random. With MICAs AESA radar is not that superior because of small range of these missiles.
There is no good things in these situation. Gaijin just fucked both us and logic by adding Typhoon and especially Rafale with AESA before F-2. Well, I still have some hope that we’re getting F.3 (and not F.3r) version, but my hope is rapidly fading.
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Yea we got screwed both ways. Instead of F-2 being one of the first Gen 4.5s, other nations get their Gen 4.5s and AESA.
My theory is that Gaijin was supposed to add it this year but they couldn’t get it in time thanks to last updates extension. Which explains why the update is kinda of weird, including the teaser. Even the J-10B and J-11B leaked were not added, only adding to the theory.
The real question is will we see F-2 in March along with Su-30SM, F/A-18C, J-10B, etc. Or will they save that for June which means we wait 6 months for no reason until maybe they add the F-2 with AAM-5 and next generation of IR missiles.
As someone whose favorite aircraft is the F-2 and pretty much the only thing I’m looking forward to and will put a bajillion battles into. Being edged like this is infuriating. At least with ARH we knew it would be March or June well in advance. All those listed aircraft have been in the leak lists except F-2 and coupled with Smin’s response, I feel like F-2 is nowhere close and that is extremely disappointing. I don’t want the aircraft because it might be competitive, I want it because it’s THE F-2, damnit.
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