Sure, but with multipathing and current ARH gameplay, it’s not hard to close in the gap and once that is done it’s going to come down to who has more IR missiles and can get the shot off first.
Yea I’m just being practical. Air had to leapfrog because many nations invested in Gen 4.5s as they couldn’t spend as much money as the US and RU with many Gen 4s and their variants. Now that we’re finally here, top tier can have some kind of parity again and it’s not bad idea to slow down here.
Although on the other hand the few Gen 5s that do exist won’t tip the game in any direction considering they all rely on things that the game freely gives (situational awareness with markers in air RB).
It’s a pretty big jet. And it’s really, really fast. Only reason top speed is mach 2.2 is to protect stealth coating. Big speed + big weight = big energy on impact. Coupled with the fact that the plane would effectively disintegrate it could release fuel into the air which could ignite like a fuel air bomb. So even though it isn’t made for kamikaze I don’t think it would be half bad at it
Was talking about kamikaze capabilities but yeah. I think they’re just testing something secret, similar stuff happened with previous US black projects, though never on this scale
@Smin1080p_WT Is a structural change or update planed for Air Sim for next update or next year in general? The mode has seen hardly any change for a long time now and the gameplay is so shallow. Especially with most modern aircrafts added last two years.
the Superhind and Osa were leaked an update earlier already
AESAN didn’t happen
Eurofighter wasn’t delayed at all
F-22 nobody knows so far
F-18CH didn’t happen
F-5E CH didn’t happen
Cluster and SEAD didn’t come yet
Guidance still the same
JS Yubetsu didn’t come
Ground trees still united
Which is not the point. It is the last domestic aircraft that could’ve been a relevant top tier addition, now it’s all sidegrades to others like a Japanese F-35 alongside other F-35s.
That’s like adding the Rafale after the Eurofighter when it no longer is anything to write home about.
Yes it is, not only is the (X)F-2 the first AESA aircraft, but also armed with AIM-7s for BVR initially. And that while prototype J/APG-1 was similar in performance to Rafale’s AESA.
Even early F-2 with production J/APG-1 lack datalink, making AESA more of a novelty than what it is for Rafale, literally perfect to test and refine mechanics without affecting balance.
Sure, a late F-2 with J/APG-2 would most certainly be superior to Rafale, but that is skipping both the initial production variant and the prototype that would’ve made for great additions way before even the last update.
