Doubt it will be leaked.
Considering how long they let us wait and had their subtle teases in QnA and F-16AJ devblog, and now the complete radio silence, it will most likely be the surprise teaser featured aircraft akin to J-10A for Dance of the dragons.
Maybe alongside J-10B, for no other reason than that it’d be cool to see an established “rivalry” dynamic in a teaser like F-15/Su-27.
XF-2 hopefully replace F-16AJ, F-2B pointless since its just a worse performing A, Super Kai doesnt exist.
F-15 JSI hasnt even been made yet irl anyways
just more powerful and better range right?
Yeah, better range, stronger tracking, and better radar modes, also an IRST which I forgot about
Ya SK was a throwaway but JSI should be a thing eventually and same with their Gen 6 aircraft
Gen 6 is decade/decades away for japan, or anyone else tbh
navy NGAD may fly towards the end of 2020s but definietly not in service until 2030s
Gen 6 Tech Demonstrator flew for the USAF in 2020 tbh
We have to accept reality that Gaijin will add paper things eventually because they want to make money
USAF is a different beast, and tech demonstrator could be EAP type stuff
That’s right, guess we’ll have to see what they reveal then
J-10A was leaked prior to update as usual though
also 6th gen mightve been a prototype/test B-21 possibly?
For over a year now, we’ve had pretty consistent leaks for updates well in advance, also.
Technically a 6th Gen test bed flew in 2016 for Japan, it’s just like with all 6th Gen a very long ways off actually coming to fruition
Su-30SM isn’t going to China unless it’s as the Su-30MKM (which people who don’t want anything ASEAN to go to China will be really butt-hurt about), so maybe Su-30MK2? I don’t know Chinese flankers well enough to know if it can work with the PL-12’s though. It seems the PL-12 is a J-10, J-11B, JF-17 (and beyond) missile.
J-11B, F-2, and Su-30SM should come in their own patch together. Su-30MKK and Su-30M/M2 would be better paired separately, as neither have canards or TVC, nor radar beyond the N001VEP.
No imported Flankers can use the PL-12, only indigenous ones from the J-11B onward.
I’m using MKK and MK2 interchangeably as I don’t know the difference between the two or how advanced the MK2 is, but it would make sense for the Chinese SU-30 to come at the same time as the Russian one, though like I said I would hope it’s part of the attacker line for China, so I’m hoping for J-11B in March and then a SU-30MKK/MK2 with the SU-30SM and F/A-18C in June for a navy fighter focused patch.
Just to clarify I’m not expecting the Chinese SU-30 to be a true top tier 14.0/14.3 aircraft necessarily, I just think it makes sense to come in the same patch to bolster China’s CAS
Sorry, su-30MKK, not SM
Absolutely acknowledging the butt hurt,
do you know, that Bangladesh is IRL lobbying for Rafale acquisition? If the nation gets it, then China is cleared to get it as well, in WT terms? … now tell me … do you think China needs ASEAN or can be satisfied with its current pseudo/official-subtrees?
It’s enough, I’d say.
I don’t think the USA/Russia/China, in principle, needs backup, especially in aviation. At most, tank cars, some kind of Korea, and I think it would be better to create a branch of the two Koreas. The branch would be super cool and interesting.