They have been testing it for a little while now, I don’t think it’s hit IOC yet like the AIM-174 but it’s pretty close.
And they do still add tested weapons or compatible weapons, otherwise Swiss premium hornet wouldn’t have 7P
Meteor and PL-15 probably won’t be added for some time too so it’ll be fine
Yeah, the earlier HOBS improvements on other AMRAAM should help in this area. It’ll have better speed once it hits at 20km or less probably, which I like
I cant wait for meteor to be added only for it to be mid af, missing half its features and overhyped like AIM-54 and then see everybody on the forums complaining about it.
It will then get some fixes in 2 years that make it better but it will still be mid overall.
I’ve gotten multiple kills with the C5 with 60km launches. Usually US F-15Es that are AFK, but a few against aircraft definetly trying to defend. Abusing the terrible state of BOL by targeting Typhoons and Gripens works quite well and J-10s also seem to die quite often
Though. I will agree.Id gladly take HOBS over range at the moment
What speed and altitude usually?
This was a double kill I got. So you can have a look yourself, but usually quite high
Russia has R-77M and R-77ME tho
Improoved range of up to 160km on regular R-77M
From a quick search the R-77M is still in development for the SU-57 and there’s nothing known about it. So not a contender. It’s even less likely compared to the AIM-260
Its very strange to often ask for more communication from us and developers, and yet, when an offical answer comes directly from the developers, its thrown out.
We appreciate plans have changed in the past, but we can only provide the information we have at the time, which comes from the devs directly.
As a general rule, that is entirely correct. When something however exceeds the point of being potentially a damaging claim to say something is planned for X update or part of the year, which also lead to people making outlandish claims of “The devs are not fixing bugs because they are already rushing stealth/5th gen for Christmas 2025!”, we feel the need to step in at this point. As its both entirely untrue and incorrect, leading to many others being mislead.
Once again, as we have said before, you are entirely free to not trust statements. We can only provide the current up to date information directly from the offical source, the dev team.
I will leave our previous statement in reference here from the devs:
With all due respect, it wouldn’t be the first time.e you guys say one thing and do the complete opposite.
But alas I really hope the 5th hen stuff you say is true. I really don’t want to see it in game before some major changes occur
Plans change from time to time and we have never denied that. Its the simple and practical reality of game development. If and when they do, we always provide our reasoning and detailed explanations of why that is and what changed if we have said something previously that differed.
surely people dont think the game is ready for fifth gen right?
Remember when people said the game wasn’t ready for the F-16, now look
It’s been getting more and more ready with each passing update
Yeah ready to be milked to high heaven lol
We really need total and complete overhauls of multiple core aspects of the game first
Imo. We have a very long way to go yet.
just thinking about fifth gen fighters scares the shi out of me, like I’m look at you br compression (and other things)
Everything you said is stuff that the game would benefit from regardless of stealth. I mean stuff like TVC, stealth itself, AESA, AIM-120C and R77-1, recently LDIRCM, things that are required for stuff like F-35, F-22, Su-57, etc
Perhaps. But I think the priority should be to get gen 4 vs gen 4 into a decent and healthy state (heck Gen 3 vs gen 3 isnt all that great either) before trying to have Gen 5 vs Gen 4 gameplay which is just going to be a nightmare of balancing issues and bugs
Yeah I wouldn’t mind a couple more advanced F-15’s and F-16’s. US is stuck in cold war airframes right now