They should do something for april fools
I want to operate MFS-3 Kiryu in War Thunder.
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Takao-class, indeed.
There should be a proper mech event, with things like Mechagodzilla and a Gundam.
That would be my favorite april fools event ever.
DMM’s work takes a lot of time, so let’s look at it with a long-term perspective. (The Yamato-class implementation plan, for instance, dates back to comments from 2021.) Hopefully, this is some kind of foreshadowing for a future Patlabor collaboration project. 【特報】陸・空に続く海の新プロジェクト「海軍軍備補充計画」立案！ - War Thunder （ウォーサンダー）- DMM GAMES
JM is great
Russia and China have no actual full flight hypersonic missiles, R37 is allegedly only hypersonic for the first stage of its flight while it can’t even track in that stage and AIM174 was just made for killing at extreme ranges, AWACS and such.
A hypersonic missile that could sustain full hypersonic speed right to its target was concepted by US in the 2000 and made public some years ago, with 2 models. The alleged hypersonic missiles that Russia has even if they are remotely reliable, make no use because they have no capable enough jet and much less radar to pair the alleged hypersonic missiles.
Having the ability to be hypersonic while not being able to track is basically useless against advanced targets that can easily defend, so R37 is mainly an Anti-AWACS missile but R37 has not even been verified in the slightest, while AIM120 and AIM9s proved that they can reliably hit targets over the advertised ranges.
It is widely believed that Russia in fact doesn’t even have a missile that can reliably hit targets at 70 kms, with each jet or new piece of american tech that comes to light, everyone else including europe in just a couple of years release a copy paste.
J20 to F22/F35, J35 to F35, SU57 to F22, TAI TF to F22, SU75 to F35 and so on, all of these are created in response to what US does, why would russia and china ever feel the need give a response if they have such a more advanced military?
Missiles need to be reliable, since no matter what their abilities may be it is useless if it can’t reliably hit and we all know how reliable Russian and Chinese tech are as a whole.
However… the AS.34 anti-ship missile, which can only attack ships, was implemented. So, there should still be a possibility for the ASM-1 to be implemented alongside cockpit corrections for the F-1 fighter and the addition of a ground mode for its radar.
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I’ll take a more specific example.
Every nation does that, but not how you think.
They design equipment to counter existing threats, replace existing equipment and be at least slightly better than their predictions of enemy future equipment.
The key part is the delay between the start of a project and the conclusion.
F-15 is a reaction against MiG-25, but this type of thing is a rare exception. This took a few years, these were simpler planes even.
F-22 begins design in the 1980’s to try to replace F-15, beat MiG-29 and Su-27. This is the more common way.
Su-57 is sort of the same. It is a reboot of the Soviet program from the 1980’s, so the same time as F-22 is being designed. 1.44 and Su-47 are the results of that process, but those designs essentially failed due to collapse of the Soviet Union. Su-57 is just the modernisation and reshuffling of the existing legwork and some updating. It’s not a pure knee-jerk reaction to F-22.
These types of programs simply take too long and are too secretive for this type of ping-pong you are implying.
It is very weird and anachronistic.
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i wonder, is that the best atomic breath reveal ever?
pacific rim would be much better suited imo.
gipsy danger meta?
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Its said to be comparable to PESA, seems to have beaten the Rafale’s PESA in pure range according to the Swiss evaluation but exhibited worse target acquisition at comparable ranges as well as worse ECM resistance, but I believe once it acquired a lock it was stronger.
To say its as good as AESA is probably wrong. Maybe a small AESA array it can beat in certain was. But obviously the radars are fundamentally working on different principles so anything E-Scan is probably going to have better acquisition and ECM resistance, but absolute range is supposedly more tied to power and interleaving than to the method of scanning.
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me : looks at the last 600-800’ish new message
“YUP … wee have gone complitely insane”
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fighting Gaizilla?
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I tried to catch up on it all, but it seems like a good 50% of those comments were Rafale fans saying Typhoon looked like a bucktoothed, bee stung dachshund, and Typhoon fans saying Rafale looked like a squirrel with nuts in its cheeks.
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Tldr the eurofighter mafia took over
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Both sides left and said, “you should see the other guy.”
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but are they wrong tho?
Afaik Italy also uses AIM-9L/I and smokeless version AIM-9L/I-1, instead of AIM-9M on their jets, but not in the game for whatever reason.
This is from ASA-M declassified manual for example.
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No comment. But if nothing else, it’s nice to see UK/GER/ITA mains fight side by side in the R&R for once.
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