It was about F-15EX being a hard requirement for Typhoon to get AESA (assuming in the context of ARB)
But Rafale is fine with AESA and Gripen E is no issue at all to be added
Why does the US tree even need the F-15EX if they already got one AESA radar plane with the F-15C GE the last update? Does the F-15EX have a MAW to set it apart except its ground armament?
Kinda what im asking.
Typhoon getting AESA is being treated like it would make it suddenly super OP
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Gripen E will just be the F15E for sweden. Why people assume its EFT level is beyond me lol
Basic research would tell anyone that much, it shouldn’t be the same BR as the EFT or Rafale if we get new BR ceilings.
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So your argument is that the F-15C going to F-15GE did nothing
But going from Typhoon with CAPTOR-M to Typhoon with CAPTOR-E would suddenly break the game?
I still dont understand this argument?
What next? Typhoon wont be allowed IRIS-T / ASRAAM when everyone else gets equivalents? Because “Reasons”
Gripen E gets MMW Brimstone 3s but god forbid the Typhoon gets anything other than SAL Brimstone 1s?
Rafale F4 with METEOR, but Anything more than C5s is too OP for the Typhoon?
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Gonna be real with you, the EFT has leagues better flight performance, speed, systems, and only loses on the radar. So yes its a minimal buff for a .7 increase essentially imo, its a late addition
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I sitll dont understand the arguement, the Typhoon is already artificially nerfed in pretty much every singel respect. Why does it need to be fighting F-22s and co just to get AESA? Something its direct equivalent has had for 12 months?
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Its gonna be fighting F22’s just like the Finnish F-18C which is the worst 14.0 lol, thats just compression at its finest but to ignore every other advantage the EFT has over the GE is silly
Where did I say that?
The F-15C GE is mediocre because it’s a 13.7 plane that is only 14.3 for a radar that is barely functional only with todays update.
The EFT has the F-15C GE beat in every way besides radar, so yeah a AESA EFT would be unbalanced at the same BR as the F-15C GE. Hell it would be unbalanced at the same BR as almost all the planes I meantioned before except for the Rafale.
Sorry that this doesn’t suit the Britain suffers agenda, but the EFT is the last plane at top tier to need a buff currently.
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Then I guess no Gripen E and delete the Rafale.
Would be unfair on the F-15C GE that others get AESA
We know, Still trying to get hte correct ammo in the gun,. But alas, that would be too OP.
Or our HUD unsquished
or UV coating
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Oh god here we go
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Gripen E will likely not even be close to the AESA EFT lmao.
But I guess Britain does truely suffer.
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AESA + Gimball.
Its about as close as you can get.
Yeah, we know. Its against the TOS to get anything at the same time as anyone else. Well hopefully we’ll get the HUD fixed around the time of the 6th gens
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I mean Britain will get the AESA EFT at the same time as everyone else except France (for some reason) also gets a somewhat close counterpart to it.
I guess it’s only balance when your nation gets to be on top.
Idk you just got the hawks all to yourself so isnt that not true? Also its not a britain specific issue lol, even sweden and italy have more times where they lacked a top tier fighter than britain lol
and the soviets, and japan, and the US, and by the sounds of it Sweden and China and maybe Israel (if you dont count the Kfir C10)
If we have to wait another year for AESA, we had better get AMK
And which of these nations have AESA EFT counterparts?
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Which are basically DOA unfortunately. Niche and cool, but hardly a gotcha
There only real saving grace was GRB, but they are substantially weaker than their direct equivalents in terms of CAS and A2A.
Su-34/Su-30SM, F-2, F-15C GE. All have ESA?
I dont really get why exclusively the Typhoon is being balanced via artifically nerfed M-Scan.
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Ah so it’s fine that these nations will have way worse aircraft because they have a similar radar??
Ah there is the nation main Morvran_ I used to know. Like I said: