oh no I mean IRST, being able to lock a target from 20km out with it and them having no idea you launched an ASRAAM will be insane lol
F3.2 is basically the predecessor of F3R
RBE2 PESA instead of RBE2 AA (AESA), no meteors, but equipped with MICA IRs, EMs and a fair few Strike options, like SCALP (Storm Shadow), AASM (Hammer), Exocet or ASMP-A (funni nuke).
To sum it up, it goes :
F2
F3
F3.2
F3.3
F3.4+
F3-O4T
F3R
F4
F4.1
F4.2
F stands for France, and the number on the right clearly was made up by some people at Dassault, and you can tell they were having a bad day lmao
Then there’s C for “Chasse” M for “Marine”, and B for “Biplace”, but those designation are independant of the version, since all the versions above apply to each category. All in all : quite a happy mess
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Well, given how Su-27 bleeds all speed on mild maneuvers, Su-34 is heavier and pulls harder, without thermals and 2 more missiles, difficult to see where the fear could come from.
If it was some kind of multirole strike fighter with reall good power to weight and a decent thermal targeting pod, there would have been good reason for fear.
As it stands, the writing was on the wall and look at what we’ve got ingame. Another Pinata for SPAA.
Ah right. Yeah it will be.
oh fair enough I just assumed the italians and germans also had multirole trenche 1s
I am almost certain we won’t be getting this anytime soon. For good reason too.
I am really not looking forward to these kinds of weapons in the game anytime soon.
R-27ET is already pushing it a bit, and that gets oneflared by accident on a regular basis whilst having atrocious range.
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If you now compare 6x KH-38 on an aircraft that can run fox-3s and does have a good radar and are supsonic with adequate handling…To something like the tornado or harriers that make up the core of A2G for multiple nations and you can see where the fear comes from. Especially when the only nation that could really threaten the Su-25SM3 with SPAA was the soviets. Su-34 only makes that worse
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Typical
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that is not what I have seen lol, I’ve seen those things absolutely destroy lobbies because you can just use the thermals on the KH38MT as your pod
All Typhoons coming to the game should be called Tranche 1 Block 2 or Block 5
they probably are just under the nations name for it (the uk for example F2 or FGR4)
Sure, but it’s no F-16/F-15/JAS39 with thermal targeting pod and lgb/maverick. Those are difficult because they have the flight performance to do whatever they want, Su-34 has all that nice kit but is still just missile bait due to inferior flight performance.
I shot it down and played in it, not really as good as all that. Planes with actual targeting pods and flight performance are more dangerous for the reasons outlined above.
Why has War Thunder started lagging today, outta nowhere???
Thats what I call a…
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Kh-38s have a gen 3 thermal optic. So lack of thermal Tpod really isn’t an excuse and the Su-34 really isn’t a brick.
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yeah… thats why I have seen them kill half a lobby in 40 seconds and in 2 minutes they are back and doing it again, well outside the range of any western SPAA
I assume Tranche 1s coming in the next update are purely A2A. So the FGR4 designation will be for Tranche 2s i guess. Not sure what Italy and Germany call their Tranche 2s
maybe? the first FGR4s were just Trenche 1 BLK5s but FGR4 is just the term for the british multirole EFTs so can be anywhere from Trenche 1s to Trenche 3s
I concur. Im expecting FGR4 latter half of 2025, likely with Aim-120C5s and most of its A2G.
What IR AAMs it will have is anyones guess, but probably AIm-9M for now.