Cannons still have a place in the battlefield but not for A2A anymore i feel. As for CAS the cannon will always have devastating effect on infantry after you run out of ordnance.
Neither at the moment. The only vehicles of that nationality are there due to the US origins of said vehicles. Don’t know about Philippines however.
It is possible we try and integrate the ASRAAM internally again later down the line once we have some Block 4 aircraft, though it seems that the standard loadouts for UK Block 4 aircraft will be
2 x ASRAAM on the wings
2-4 x Meteor in the internal bay
8 x Spear 3 for ground attack capability also internally mounted
I know they aren’t subtrees, the discussion was about the definition of subtrees and there was a claim of the US housing 4 other nations. The Philippines vehicle is a premium P-26, so same logic as the Greek Apache and the Iranian Tomcat.
The American P-26 is the Philippines aircraft in the US TT.
Something that saddens me about the 5th Gen American fighters is that they can only carry 2 Sidewinders; and, in F-35’s case, they must be external, messing up the stealth…
I mean, AIM-120C-5 (if Gaijin implemented it instead of having 5th Gen jets still with 120B) is probably so good that it would make IRs extremely situational, but still, hahah.
(I am talking about War Thunder only, obviously, not real life).
Such a shame this lack of compatibility will hurt Lockheed in the long run. Bet if things kicked off in Taiwan or Russia Lockheed would miraculously release the source code…
Hope to see Japan, the UK and Italy Gen 6 one day.
Given that the Philipines is a close US ally, and primarily operate American weapons anyways, wouldnt be surprised if they went to the US or more practically the nation which designed the vehicles.
I think also the number of fox 3 missiles internally is limited on non block 4 models. Also for nations who only have the B variant its even worse its heavier and no internal gun.
We still don’t have Brimstone, Meteor functionality or SPEAR despite being assured it would be completed by 2025 now it’s extended to 2027-2030.
Lockheed are at it and if Britain has any balls they would haul them over the coals for it.
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The internal gun on the A model isn’t much of an addition. It only holds 180 for a GAU.
TBF if given the choice, I imagine most people are going to run max weapons on all 5th gens anyways, killing the stealth entirely, I’ve seen the J-20 with what looked like 8 externally mounted missiles, I think the F-22 can carry 4 external AMRAAMs, and I’m sure the SU-57 has a few external hardpoints as well, so stealth is likely going to be a small factor anyways in War Thunder.
I do love the F-35 though, far and away my favorite 5th gen, you just can’t beat that multirole charm
Yeah gen 5 era is gonna be very weird not sure how they will balance it when youll have F-22s/j-20s/su-57s running around. F-35a stealth is nice and all but tbh its limited in air to air weapons load so far.
Weapon integration is a joint venture MBDA has to work with lockheed as much as vice-versa for weapons capabilities. Raytheon had to do a lot of work aswell to get their weapons capable with the 35.
Lockheed knew Britain would want to arm the F-35 with Meteor. As would other European partners not having Meteor functionality is a purely financial one. The UK have had to buy Aim120C/D for the F-35 when they have stockpiles of Meteors. As will other F-35 partners Lockheeds reluctance to release source code has lead many partners to become frustrated and why we are seeing GCAP programmes to not have the restrictions imposed by the US.
Limiting payload options via a source code is a con.
Same as they do currently throw them all to the same BR. I mean look at the current 13.7 vehicles, most have between 8-6 Fox 3’s yet 3 have only 4. So why would the snail think any differently here?
You would hope the Gen 4.5 get superior ECM, But seeing what Gaijin have done with top tier tank battles.
likely give Gen 5 the best Radars the best missiles the best ECM and the best of everything and still expect Gen 4.5 to compete. I forsee a miserable experience for anyone not in an F-22 or Su-57
J-20 is great but it’s a bus
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It’s simple, stealth will be a gimmick just like on the F-117 and not be modeled in anyway that matters. Especially since our engagement ranges are so close anyway.
On the opposite end, there’s also ECM to make long range missile shots pointless anyway, thereby making stealth more of a sneaking up on people kind of thing as opposed to a weapon range jousting kind of thing.
You can’t just throw missiles into a weapons bay and then program them to work. The missiles do need to be adjusted to clear the bay before ignition. The AMRAAM had the luxury of the F-22 to get a lot of the issues out of the way for intergration.
I am not aware of the meteor being loaded into an internal bay. Prior 35.