Ah I see it now, how interesting…
I suppose it was alike UShke with shrinking the wingspan… just not for IWBs.
(all Pakistani vehicles being squadron or prems)
I’m sorry I just can’t listen to the new youtube voice narration, it’s clearly AI especially towards the end of the latest video all I could hear was “errrrrr urrrrrrrrrr aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr”
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BVV_D said that 5th gen would come on the second half this year… And its soon, time flys
Well we know that ARM were planned for the first half of this year, which only leaves the next update.
As for 5th gen, I very much think that will be for the december update. The F-22 specifically was denied for this year, so hopefully that means they are giving stuff like the F-35s and J-35 a chance to shine, while adding the F-22/Su-57/J-20 later in 2027 somewhere.
I would agree if it wasn’t for the fact gaijin wont leave Russia out on having a 5th gen jet, I fully expect 5th gens to only come to the US, Russia and China first and then the F35 for everyone else later.
Hopefully gaijin will do what they did with the F/A-18E and F where they give every other nations top tier jets better IR and BVR missiles to compensate
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Yeah I thought something sounded off about it. Especially in the latest video where it says “cungformal” instead of conformal.
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Well they could always add that strange looking Su-75 (or a F-35 from a different nation, but I seriously hope they don’t do that).
Smin said/implied that both oxy’s comment on the F-22 and the comment from the CM disclosure are valid/not unfounded. So that means that the F-22 is denied for this year and 5th gens are still planned for the second half of this year. However without the F-22 I don’t think we’ll see the Su-57.
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my point, it might aswell not be
when was this confirmed???
“We’re happy to see the attention the game is getting and the enthusiasm for modern aviation, and today we want to talk a bit more about our plans regarding 4++ and 5th generation aircraft specifically.
The game already has the first iconic examples of 4+ and 4++ generation aircraft, but we plan to add a few more of these aircraft to different research trees before moving on to 5th generation aircraft. At the moment for example, not all nations have top fighters with the most modern electronically scanned array radars, and we would like to close this gap first. There are also several modern air warfare technologies that can enrich gameplay that have not yet been implemented in War Thunder.
This process will take several major updates, and the first 5th generation aircraft will not appear in the game before the second half of next year. We hope this news will not upset fans of these aircraft too much, especially as there are a lot of interesting aircraft ahead.”
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i have not seen the start of a single event match today every single game I have joined has been on the medium nukes wtf
Wasn’t that for last year?
iirc the translated sippets for the last Russian stream had something about 5th Gen stuff being played for the Q2 update.
Nah, Oxy said no F-22 this year. It was said 9th Jan 2026 iirc.
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sigh
Gotta love NLOS Nords/Bullpups being added back
so “fun”
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Fairly certain they said not in the first half of this year, not that it will definetly be coming this year.
second half of this year, so the update some were in agust, setember?
Where did they say that 5th gens were definetly coming second half of this year?
Im personally thinking maybe December though
