Next Major Update - Rumor Roundup & Discussion

While I agree that they should be added at some point, these are different cases.

There was no intention to arm the EAP or Su-47, the YF-23 would only have received weapons for testing, had it won the competition and the F-15MTD was a research aircraft.

The MiG 1.44 is a bit of a weird case as they may have intended to integrate weapons for testing, but as far as I know, they never got around to doing that before the project was cancelled in favour of the PAK FA project (Su-57).

The EAP was always meant to demonstrate tech that would go on to be used in the EF Typhoon, the Su-47 was mostly experimental and there was no intention to adopt that design and the F-15MTD (later F-15 ACTIVE) was used as a research vehicle to help with the development of technologies used in the AFT programme (F-22).

The YF-23 could qualify for a Yak 141 treatment.
Equip it based on a “what if we ended up with the F-23 instead of the F-22” scenario.

The MiG 1.44 could be treated similarly.

Meanwhile the planes in the game that lacked guns IRL really just did lack guns and nothing else, they were ready for adoption and just needed to get the go-ahead for production.

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Still has nothing to do with being a “4+” gen even if it was added with its non existent armaments. Pretty sure there is no evidence it was ever even ment to have anything else

Was armed.

mockup aim120s btw

They could have just done an African TT

This idea of making a TT that doesn’t work without getting x unrelated subtrees is just silly

EAP when?

China, Israël and Sweden got added, but i digress

Mocks aren’t a issue since it was a prototype for a program. Go have a issue with it having cms

It wasn’t a unarmed tech demo like EAP su47 or f15K STOL

China doesn’t even have a proper sub tree??

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afaik 4x aint even confirmed only 2x

They didn’t add any of them with the intention to give them 20 subtrees because otherwise they couldn’t stand on their own

Taiwan, cough cough

i has pakistan :)

Spoiler

literally what they say even though pakistan is only prems

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google what taiwan is called, and end of discussion

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And Bangladesh to right?

Ah, I’ve only heard of the hulls and turrets being made but never that they were fitted. My bad ^^

lol

lmao even

Idk i think that one isnt confirmed

I see armament here, even though just mockups, this proves that there was an Intention to arm it at some point. (Coping)

iirc Republic of China is counted as an operator nation, not as a subtree

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