Dumbbell radar since AN/APG-85 is still on paper, debatable, debatable, the multi-directional radar and DIRCM on the felon seem more interesting. Not sure what you mean by that. The only thing, defining its weapon integration is how limited its load is.
Yeah, the flight performance is crippling. Wonder if the chinese managed to fix that in their copy.
gaijin will still accept real world photo with new drop tanks and IRST pod probably
J-35 uses more powerful twin engines and is projected to be mach 2 or nearly capable yes
this just gives ASQ-239 and ALR-94 targeting data. only the main array can sort of hold up against APG-77 or APG-81
dont get it wrong id love to see the f22 at its full capacity. but with what ive seen in the past and even with this update (f15ex not getting EPAWSS) i find it highly uncertain that gaijin will go to lengths to add systems that are shrouded in way greater secrecy.
it can fire almost any modern AAM in the entire NATO fleet, no other 5th gen can boast that much choice so far
Dude the dev server hasn’t even been out for a full working day yet… Calm down
Engines produced 147kN of static thrust with afterburner (107kN without) during testing, so quite a bit less than the F-22. Since it is a smaller aircraft weight would naturally be lower too, but this is sadly one of the few things that would need to be estimated, with the only thing known being a stated “11.6% lower weight than conventional designs of a similar size”.
Using the F-22 as a basis, that would be an estimate 16,475kg empty weight (per the suggestion).
Sensors are quite good, with the mechanically steered AESA radar, IRST, integrated EW equipment and MAWS. Countermeasures may be lacking though, with only two dispensers on the aircraft.
Armament is probably the main limiting factor of it though. While internal AAM capacity is decent with six JNAAM (or four AAM-4/4B) missiles in the main bays and two side bays for one AAM-5/5B each, the only confirmed external loadout would be four ASM-3s. Meanwhile the only air to ground armament that is confirmed is internally carried Mk.82 bombs, which fit two in each of the main weapons bays.
Armament chart that has all confirmed loadouts. There is also renders with shoulder CFTs, though these are rather simple and there’s otherwise no mention of them.
We got the Yak-141, which is similarly not necessary, but is an interesting and important aircraft. Not that there even needs to be much justification anymore if they allow the F-15IA as though
The 26DMU (or F-X, 26DMU is technically just the name of the design mockup that went on to be the basis for the finalized 5th gen F-X design, hence “Digital MockUp”) was partly built, including components like part of the fuselage, the main weapons bays, engines, TVC and more, there was a flying demonstrator aircraft for it in the Mitsubishi X-2 and it’s an important milestone project making Japan the fourth nation in the world do fly a domestic 5th generation aircraft. That’s something that even today only 5 nations have achieved.
5th gen is also making top tier in many techtrees rather stale in the first place. There’s unique aircraft for USA, USSR, China, but aside from those it’s F-35A over and over, with some F-35B sprinkled in for flavor. Even if it isn’t needed for pure balance, this does help make top tier more interesting, even if just going for the US with the better rounded F-22 + one more F-35 variant or China with the J-20 and J-35 variants will probably stay the most popular options by far, especially when they also potentially receive their own unfinished 5th gens (F-23 and such, there’s probably more I don’t know about).
So will be the other 5th gens. So will be the 4th gens.
What’s your point?
There are many other systems that gaijin hasnt added despite them being proven to be in opperationn, i was just using the latest one. Another example could be the irst pod on the super hornets. The funny thing with that is you can actually see it when hovering over the british super hornet in game despite it not being implemented.
thats a game engine limitation not a secrecy issue
Not sure if I’d consider the J-35 an F-35 copy, the closest they are is in name.
Except that’s clearly linked to an engine issue with sensors not being able to be added by hardpoints…
iirc aren’t the new f22 drop tanks also supposed to have a similar feature?
no lol
fuck no
oh whops my bad ig i messed up low observability with irst in my head
choice between bad and worse.
So far no integration with Meteor (currently Nato’s only answer for R-37M and PL-15) since the US is stalling it on purpose
Completely unrelated to the discussion at hand but does anyone know if they have fixed the issue with the dual rack 120D and Sidewinder on the F-15GE? It’s still broken in live for me idk if I need to remake my loadouts or something lol
It was intentionally removed.
