Very likely that they will avoid adding 5th gen stuff for a long time, they have to drip feed now or they won’t be able to harvest hype money from newer planes anymore
F-22 seems pretty perfect for December. Other gen 5 might be dripfed though
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Yeah personally I think we might see the F-16E at some point this year. Would be a pretty good addition and upgrade over the C and there would still be room for the Block 70/72 later as well.
Honestly other than the B/D/EX or maybe even the Silent Eagle or the STOL/MTD if it was ever armed I don’t think there’s a need for loads of F-15’s with varying levels of differences. It would simply be too cluttered even with foldering. And frankly there’s not really a need for that many anyway.
Is that with the J-7 premium ?
Airframe bigger F/A-18A/B & F/A-18C/D
Gajin would add F/A-18E early (Block I) before F/A-18E (late) (Block II) ?
Yeah there are quite a few sub-variants, I would love to get the F-14D Super Tomcat but I don’t think it still counts as top tier sadly.
And is the F-16E/V/70/72 in service in the USAF? I don’t think it is but I was never able to find a definitive answer.
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Nah they better take their time or they’ll run out of new fighters. Let them fill the gaps, there’s plenty fighters missing before gen 5… f2a, superhornet, f14d, mig35, su35… I think we gotta be careful and not open the gen 5 chapter too early
Be patient, the raptor will come soon enough
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Can’t wait to see these beauties…
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What about later C and E? As well as F-15SA
Why would we get the F-15SA if we can get the nearly identical F-15EX? It’s not like the SA would be anywhere other than the US tech tree, so better put the actual USAF variant
Pretty sure the Block 70/72 is. V is the export version of the 70/72 but is near identical to it. I’m not too sure about the E as like the V it’s an export version, the block 60. Could still come to the US seeing as they built them even if they sell them on. Would be a good step between the C and the block 70/72 if it was to come.
Woah, Japanese aircraft? Does Gaijin add those anymore? I thought they only removed them.
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Oh okay, thanks for the clarification.
I honestly have some doubts about this one… on one hand they completely skipped every block of the F-16 from the Block 10 F-16A to the Block 50 F-16C, but on the other, the F-35A is gonna take longer to drop than the F-22, so they might add something to the F-16 line that didn’t receive anything since 2023.
Yeah most likely before a F-35 in that line we will get an upgraded F-16, personally I think it’s more likely going to be the Block 70 or 72 but the E would also be possible instead but ultimately either would fill that gap nicely in the future.
true. i would love to see the f-14D in the game since i love that design
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Did you hear about the Polish sound technician? Well, there was a Czech one, too.
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I would really like to see some new spaa with all the new top tier jets being added. Have to balance out those 10+ km guided things.
There are quite a few major differences between the 2
Thanks gaijin for reworking jungle map! It looks much worse than before!
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No, 70/72 is the F-16V.
USAF uses F-16C PoBIT which is C BLK 50 up to 70/72 standard, but with even better ECM suite