Wouldn’t say no to the Sabre Dog, even if it would be borderline unplayable garbage.
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I wouldn’t mind the T-1 honestly I’ve been spreading its word since before the thai sub tree was added, and now with the R2Y2’s gone well we need something around that area
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It’s possible, but I also think it doesn’t really benefit Gaijin to actively mess with their players like that because at the end of the day, they want them to spend money on the game, not turn them away.
I just feel like if they wanted to keep hopes down they wouldn’t say anything, but we shall see of course.
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alright gang, let’s see how gaijin manages to mess up the next japan addition!
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watch the F-2 not have any guided A2G apart from maybe a sniper pod and jdams on the tippy top tier model
I really want the T-1, especially if they skip on the AIM-9Bs and it stays as a ~6.0 jet.
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honestly I expect it
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they did say “a jet for japan” and not “a Japanese jet” so It could also be thai.
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It’s true yea.
I do hope that they only mentioned a Japanese jet because it’s what we’re all thinking about (you know the one that everyone spammed in the RU dev stream, showing huge demand?).
Otherwise feels like they wouldn’t mention anything for Japan and we’ll find out in the dev server as usual.
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It could be Indonesian Rafale or Malaysian Hornet for lol
Malaysia also has some Su-30s!
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F-2A was also approved
the F-2A has a pretty solid kit however knowing gaijin and how much they gimped japan already
It’ll make sense if F-2A is missing a portion/large portion of its kit
It would be amazing if they implemented the GCS-1 750 and 500’s (been in the game since 2021 lmao), and give it to the respected craft that operated it (T-2, F-1, F-4EJ ADTW, F-4EJ Kai, F-15MJ and F-2A)
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This is my biggest fear. F-2 can be really unique with new control modes, a chance at AESA and missile datalink overhauls, finally a chance to fix AAM-3 and AAM-4 and the perfect time to introduce GCS-1s, ASM-2/2B/3 and maybe even XGCS-2, but it can also be very underwhelming with none of that or sub-par implementations.
There’s no guarantee for HMD since it was only planned and never made, there’s only the 4 + 4 loadout used with 6 + 4 being theoretical and unproven, ASMs take up an MRM station each unless they allow them on inner pylons (if they add them at all) and so on…
And all of that with so many delays that we need at least some of the new features, big reworks and theoretical loadouts only for it to not be sidelined by the top tiers from two updates back. Gaijin really set themselves up for failure…
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This is my biggest fear and its not just for the F-2, but all future actual AESA aircraft.
We already have AESA aircraft in game and gaijin treats them exactly like the far inferior russian PESA radars.
If the F-2 does not have the actual functionality of a proper AESA radar there is a little to no chance that gaijin ever implements it’s benefits correctly.
The F-2 in a sense is the last chance of NATO AESA superiority being modeled in WT.
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iirc Stepanovich already confirmed that PESA / AESA are corrently lacking features that will be introduced overtime.
Its possible that the difference between PESA and AESA becomes a little bigger in the future, but who knows.
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with our luck, it might end up being a F-1 Late or something else Japan doesn’t really need
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F-2A would be very nice to have as everyone now virtually has a new top tier jet with a cool new feature, while japan got a copy paste that adds virtually nothing.
F-1 Late would be nice too though
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Watch them pull a Finnish F-18 and make it 14.0 w/o HMD (MLU-1 could’ve easily been the version and been identical to F/A-18 Late)
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Knowing gaijin, they will do this to japan, I’d hate to admit it but i wouldnt be surprised if this was the case
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I think it’d be a difficult aircraft to balance honestly. AIM-9Ls but no flares, put it too high and it’d be smacked around by 9Ls and other similar missiles, put it too low and it’d dog on subsonic / flareless aircraft
iirc it had Chaff pods, but only chaff pods? you’d probably just have to run Zunis as BTEC Flares
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