No, I’m not. You are saying there was no intent to arm EAP, only a hypothetical future plane. This is incorrect. Provisions were made to arm the EAP airframe itself, as it was built and existed.
Please explain how that is different from an intent to arm a future SU-47 then. The existing airframe was never armed, it was only (allegedly) planned for a hypothetical future that never materialised.
Why would I justify an argument I never made?
Go speak to someone that is making that argument.
The issue is there are no documents with intent to arm EAP, only documents to arm a later “EAP” military intended aircraft, similar to F-20A and AIM-120s.
Su-47 has the government contract order.
You imply that there is a difference in the intent to arm some hypothetical EAP and the alleged government contract for the SU-47 right here which warrants the SU-47 being a valid addition and the EAP not being one.
I made no such implication.
All I stated was Su-47 was a government program and it should be compared to other government programs.
I’m not going to get any Su-47, and I didn’t vote on the suggestion to begin with.
Guys, neither the Su-47 or EAP have anything to do with this topic. Please take it to a more appropriate place or PM if you want to carry this on. Its been going back and forth all day.
Small steps, but it’s good to see that it is slowly being done.
I don’t even care about those radars being extremely niche, as long as they do their job properly.
Off the top of my head the PV-2D, the Shackleton, the naval Lancaster and the M.B.175T still lack any kind of radar functionality ingame.
I guess that’s true, I just wish the rangefinding radars would do something useful and not just serve as a way to annoy others by triggering their RWRs
Something that is kind of related that would be neat to see are radar guided turrets, like the one on the B-66 or the AGLTs on certain British bombers.