Next Major Update - "Eagle's Shadow" Rumour Roundup & Discussion (Part 2)

Any J-20 variant before WS-15 integration will be completely DOA compared to the Raptor and Felon, since both have better TWRs.

I believe adding tbe J-20A first is the correct course of action, followed by the J-20S when a more advanced version is required

looking at the current WS-10´s ingame C/C2 will be no slouch, and J-20S is just kinda a dual seat for the most part

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Regular J-20 vs F-35 can make sense.

Basically nostalgia for me playing sub games on the ps2 when i was a kid. Could never remember the name of it tho, do remember playing the campaign alot.

Is there a source for it because I cant find anything of it being designated that other than it linking back to him mentioning it in that video.
(I don’t care about being wrong on this because i would genuinely love to learn more about South African projects like this. That is literally the only time Ive ever seen it referred to as that)

I do have to say that Gaijin already did more in terms of gameplay for subs than I expected with the whole sonar minigame thingy.

I mean china has quete a few options does it not? J35, J20… Im sure there is an f35 equivilant in there somwhere. Most likly theyll just give them a tiawanese f35.

I still see no problem with adding both for the US. Not to mention that the raptor is rather outdated at this point.
Its main advantage in the game(compared to the F-35) will be in its flight performance, since the lightnings are lather lackluster.

thats true but unless they take a wargaming approach and make ww2 subs unrealistically fast under water its gonna be awful to play them in anything that doesnt spawn you next to the enemy

The series 3 found on the J-16 isn’t used on J-20s to my knowledge, and I’m more concerned about TWR here as WS-15 is stated to have a large increase over the WS-10.

I ask for the J-20S because it’s tbe dedicated EW/Drone support variant and will likely fill some niche later into the war thunder life cycle

Taiwan has no F-35 and I think we wont see the J-35 for some time as its very very new with even better stealth than the J-20

J-35A will be the F-35A counterpart
Regular J-35 will be the F-35C counterpart

Ill have to ask but from what ive heard hes in talks with a load of SAF professors and historians so if anyone knows the correct name its going to be him.

yes but the WS-10C/Cs are uprated compared to all the other WS´s afaik they had to up the requirements for the WS-15 cause of em, so they definitely wont be bad

J-35A is far too new I am afraid.

that doesnt matter at all as we literally have a nonexistent plane rn

We’ll see, the J-15T was only unveiled in 2025 yet we got it

The J-35 Stealth would literally be comparable to the F-22

no lol

not how this works

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Huh, just assumed they would tbh. I dont think stealth is going to be a huge thing in wt even when the stealth jets arrive. Just look at the f117 and how sad its stealth is, biggest use case for it is going to be escalation hence why i think the f35 is coming first then the f22. F35 is going to have the much better radar and electronics while the f22 would have the speed for the long range shots.