no
it has worse TWR than the leagacy hornet, while being heavier than it
it is safe to say that it will be worse in a dogfight
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it’s not related to CMs, but compared to average dev blog time, it’s around next week
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They are never going to fix agm65 drag.
Nah it’ll be worse, the only thing it has on the Hornet is more payload and better avionics for block 2 and 3 (block 1 has the same avionics as F/A-18C). If anything it’d be a decent strike fighter.
about as good as the F5 if you uptier it to 13.0
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Then what would be the best us dogfighter at top tier?
F22 raptor
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I mean yeah, but 4th gen and 4.5
F-15EX probably
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if they were to add an F-22 that could approximate the EFT in the first few turns, but Thrust vectoring will severely hinder it’s sustained everything
it also can’t go supersonic without damage to the Stealth coating so that’s another disadvantage
they don’t have any
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still doesn’t compare to the Eurofighter
Then gaijin should give USA F22 raptor to compete with Eurofighter :p
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id be OK with an early one with a Hard speed limit of Mach 0.99, without HMD and with only AiM-9M and AiM-120C5
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I don’t think the US will get a plane truely on par with the EFT, which isn’t a bad thing as the gap isn’t massive.
The EFT is just a really good and super easy to use all rounder.
The F-22A wouldn’t be as op as you think, stealth wouldn’t be that powerful at close range, amraams aren’t really good right now, and anyway an early one would in fact get the weapons you mentioned
There’s no reason to limit its speed
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well, they’ll just have to deal with the situation for once
Gulf nation EFT 🙂
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Speed limit because damage to the aircraft happens above that
this is always how Gaijin decides the speed limit
unless they add stealth paint damage mechanic similar to the Type VII’s Pressure damage from the lasr submarine event where at some point it couldn’t dive anymore except it just lowers rhe Stealth of the F-22
there are several yes