I think it would be just F-35’s and what Russia have as their comparison, Oxy said along with Smin that the F-22 isn’t coming this year. Saying that I hope this last update means that everyone should get fully caught up before 5th gen comes
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I was actually pretty convinced that 5th gens would come this year, but that submarine teaser got me kinda doubtful about that
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already in game
Jokes aside, heavily disagree. The F-35 is an outstanding multirole aircraft, and having 5th gen’s is no joke. However, the E/EX is a 4.5 gen and rather than stealth has improved payload delivery capabilities. It isn’t quite needed, as aircraft like the VIPERs and the Lightning IIs will be more than sufficient for strike capabilities of the HAF for many years. If better payload delivery platform ever come to be truly desired than they can be purchased as well, but the F-35 was the better choice for the HAF for the time being. I’m sure even better payload delivery platforms will become available in the coming years/decades as well.
Is there an F-16V in the US Aviation Tree? Not according to the wiki. And for Russia there currently is the Mig-35 but no S Version.
the US does not even operate “F-16V” irl
it used to be S in the dev server until they renamed it because the S version has a mechanical radar and less fox3 irl
I’ve also seen references calling it the Su-27KI, I think in 1998 it was just an evolution of the Flanker and maybe the Su-30 family at the time wasn’t planned to always be exclusively two-seaters, so it was more marketable to call it the Su-30 as it was also seen as an evolution of the Flanker.
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The F-16CM PoBIT is basically just the F-16Cs upgraded to a Block 70 standard, which makes it functionally identical to the F-16V. The US doesn’t operate newly-made F-16Vs and instead they’re exported. And it seems like they might skip it altogether in favour of the proposed F-16G- which serves as a more advanced Block 70.
^Not to mention the F-16V in-game is referred to as a F-16V Block 20, because it doesn’t have all the upgrades of the Block 70/72 and are upgraded from F-16AM Block 20s (that China also has in game at 13.3).
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Hoping and coping the USAF buys the F-16G and puts MRML or triple-racks from the F-21 proposal onto it. The F110-GE-132 would also be nice, however unlikely.
But, even if they don’t, it’ll be an opportunity for Gaijin to give us a modern F-16 with both an AESA and a GE-129 engine. Not to mention the LM proposal mentions IRST iirc, which should help with HOBS firing from track memory.
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Just a few for now is my guess.
Sometimes I wonder why this feels like such a weird coincidence. The Polish and Indonesian flags look so similar (you literally just have to flip one upside down lol).
I mean, the funny part is that both countries have a pretty diverse lineup of military vehicles. So if you want a diverse ground vehicle lineup, Poland is your answer. But if you’re looking for a diverse aircraft lineup, just flip the flag and boom, you get Indonesia 💀.
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Soooo…probably Oct 30th for the trailer is my guess???
What do you folks think, Battlepass news on Monday or Tuesday?
29th*
Trailer is almost always on a Thursday for Friday dev stream
(Hopefully it comes next week, though)
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We have yet to have devblogs, and your talking trailers. I bet, after the BP is updated, and the next event starts, it’ll be devblogs if not, soon after BP updates.
F-15XE devbleg today, I know it
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Cough
Ill take leopards over another russian piece of trash via the indian subtree any day
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if someone brings a lower BR vehicle up and actually uses it to win instead of to get a capture for a CAS spawn then they are usually a better player for the team than 40% of the lobby.
SPAA shouldnt have AP rounds. next question
Did you even read what I said? I don’t care what they do but if I kill them it shouldn’t be 40 SP.
Has nothing to do with spaa please read what I said
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they are in worse vehicles. less SP for killing them makes sense
did you or did you not die to a BTR ZD in the clip?