To be fair, who made anyone authority over what planes are considered part of whichever generation?
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Eagle’s mother
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that’s what I’m saying they make a f22 with dorrito wings and it gets 6th gen instantly with no tech backing it
Is there anything confirming this?
To be fair, if the Navy 6th gen is going to be Gen 5.5 because it’s likely not supercruise, then by your own criteria the B21 isn’t 6th gen since afaik it isn’t going to have supercruise either.
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All of us also anointed him as the sole authority over aircraft generation.
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bombers don’t need supercruise they need range a fighter needs both why do we call J50 6th gen ? because it has a “stealthy” design with no tail and dorrito wings with j20 body? yea sounds great
It’s a consensus thing, but I assume you get what I mean
“B-b-but Northrop called it a 6th gen aircraft!”
so if 2 thirds of earth population thinks 3+3 is 7 you will trust that because of consensus?
If they can explain why that is with reasonable logic then sure
If they can’t then it’s just them being stupid
In this world you need to be able to prove that what you say is true using real evidence
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you guys don’t understand that the F/A-XX will actually just have same weapons as what F18E has right now like the new aim260 and aim424 if generations are determined by weapons that means f18E is 6th gen? a generation “needs” tech and Propulsion imrpovments which F/A-XX is seeming it will lack propulsion
then prove 6th gen even exist :)
not by weapons alone
That would allow something like the MiG-29 to be 5th or 6th gen once you give it Meteor and/or IRIS-T
which isn’t the case
Prove they don’t :)
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so you cant I see you tried to deflect it because you cant
mig29 cant have any of those so its irrelevant use something else
your showing J36 or j50 with F22 inspired engines totally original and 6th gen what’s so triggering about calling it 5.5++ gen
Who said it can’t?
We have MiG-29s carrying modern weaponry
iirc there are even pylons capable of letting them utilize western munitions on the more modern variants
Do we count MiG-35 as a MiG-29?
It technically is still a MiG-29
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let me ask you can a Russian jet have NATO weapons let me answer no.