idk lol
US won’t give Taiwan eagles for the foreseeable future, and Chinas most advanced western aircraft should stay F-16 (later variants in ROCAF service like F-16V as well), no need for 15 or 18
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It is possible at some point that ROC get F-35s, they’ve shown interest and been rejected as it’s seen as a risk of them falling into PRC hands but in the future it is still possible
The X-2 was a 5th gen testbed for F-X before it was decided to cancel the 5th gen aircraft in favor of working on 6th gen in time and buying F-35 to bridge the gap.
But that being said, Japans 5th gen project was quite a bit further along than some other stuff we see in game, so that could be something in the future.
Assuming others get similar treatment this might be nice to stop the endless flood of F-35 vs F-35 battles.
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That thing looks like F-22 at home and I’m all for it lol
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Ripping of the F-15 and F-22 at once, outright fake, absolutely not
That is going to be fun, I believe everyone, but China and Russia will get one with current subtrees and such, also if China do get Singapore, then they’d possibly get one though I don’t think it’s likely it is certainly possible
Hoping those USAF F-22 upgrades go well to deal with war thunder F-35 spam lol. I think US will get block 4 first irl and ingamd
I mean all stealth fighters look roughly the same, that is a part of the stealth
Maybe a Myanmar Su-30SME? It’s still an ASEAN country, but one heavily aligned with China in a way that such an addition would be more than reasonable.
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Nah they’re straight up copying the F-22 form factor in hopes of stealth, trust me
(I actually think some countries with 5th gen fighter program do this but maybe not Japan)
Uh, it’s more real than a few aircraft we have in the game lol.
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The only question I don’t know is if it falls under test bed like EAP or if it was fully planned to be combat operational with technology already designed just waiting to be fitted.
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Isn’t that the most advanced one?
I can only see that coming to the game if they can create some sort of parity, there’s no way they top off the air trees and just leave the US as the objectively best nation, the top end has to be balanced
The X-2 was purely testbed no? The actual fighter never hit prototype stage
It was just a tech demonstrator unfortunately
I mean other country might get block 4 but few years after US (irl) and I don’t want to have to wait that long for my US block 4
AFAIK yes, but someone with more info might be able to chime in if otherwise
There is definitely espionage involved in some way but stealth is a relatively known science, even if they develop 100% from the ground up it’s going to look similar, even then you have the J-20 which is pretty unique looking
I think this might actually be very interesting to see.
Gaijin seems to want Korea as subtrees rather than a nation, so having both with China could combine both Koreas still. The “western” subtree of South Korea would also sort of make sense when you have a direct east/west split from both China and Korea
Also the most pressing issue with the Chinese tree seems to be top tier ground, which no other options do quite as well (not even ASEAN, where the top MBT selection is still limited to two Leopards worse than existing ones).
We aren’t allowed to get political, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they got F-15EX’s in the next few years.
There’s always Pakistani F-16’s too, although they and Taiwan have basically the same F-16’s as far as I can tell.