I will be honest I am not going to pretend I have any Idea on the capabilities of an F-35. I would imagine it is excellent and can fight in the A2A environment if needed.
The problem the F-35 has is it had to follow from the F-22 and had to meet so many requirements for all 3 branches of the US armed forces. The more F-35s sold and procured will bring the overall cost per unit down.
Similar to what Russia is doing with the Felon now they are offering it to reduce the cost per unit and cover some of those development costs while also pursuing other programmes the Su-75 and the unnamed 6th Gen
I don’t believe the US would accept an airframe that couldn’t
F-35 has had a long standing smear campaign and I’m not going to say who has been actively trying to smear it…But we all know
It actually does personify a lot looking at stats.
F8U2 was a great example of showing how it was slamming when it was left at 10.0 and the rest of vehicles moved up.
Aka most folks who were negative in every other plane would be 2.0KD with the F8U2
No but doing well in a variety of vehicles shows an understanding of the game
mechanics-
vehicle styles
nuance of what is statistically more at an advantage.
For example the BVM lacks in a lot of areas. Most who haven’t used it don’t believe that when they are told so.
Your stats also are abysmal mate, so generally when you talk about things, it means you lack the experience both in game, and with the aformentioned list to make your own tanks do well.
So when you mention imbalance and instantly jump to something like teh BVM it sounds more like parroting another persons opinion or generalised nonsense of russian bias.
Im gonna stop you right here, you’ve not used any other top tier MBT’s bar the CR2s which aren’t the best.
The M1A2 I can literally hold W and steam roll entire flanks.
CR2E and BN are balanced with the BVM, CR2s being my 2nd most used top tiers in game, Abrams being first.
Ngl, the BVM is one of the best tanks at toptier. The only thing that sets it back is its reverse speed and gun depression. Everything else is either average (reload, pen) or fantastic (armor, gen 3 thermals, fantastic HP/T and forward speed).
Biased in the way that yes the Leopard 2A7 should be incredible it is in the real world.
Yet in game it isn’t that much better than a T-80BVM.
They have the same quality of thermals (Gaijin takes an absolute liberty with Russian thermal quality)
Similar levels of protection and similar fire power.
We must remember that the T-80BVM is a modernised 70s T-80 design with additional ERA, changes to armour array and changes to the FCS system
Leopard 2A7 is a modernised 2A5 a 1995 design a lot changes in 20 years.
We must remember that the leopard 2A5 is a modernized Leopard 2A0 which was build in the late 70s and early 80s, with changes to armour array and changes to the FCS system
leopards beat it out, Abrams beat it out , arguably in other fields other tanks beat it, e.g type 10 beats it for mobility , reload, round etc
it’s an average tank its got good mobility and decent armour, that is it.
It is miles better than a BVM n I’ve not even got it yet.
How ? the BVM uses last I checked french bought thermals, same as the T90M.
the firepower of the russian tanks, aka reload and penetration are both underperforming?
You say that as if the 2a5 ISN’T based around the 2A4 mate… which is the same age.
false unless your mentioning T-80s, in which everything else has abysmal Reverse gears while only the T-80s are barely okay.
false again, pretty much all other nations except Japan have 100 more pen than Russian tanks…
false, all other nations reload by at least 0.5 secs and as fast as 3.1 secs faster than Soviet tanks.
false, massively over preforming ERA? Please show me where. Relict and Kontact - 5 actually under preform in KE protection by 8~% and 2.66~% respectively.
false, most do not feature coax HMG… in fact Russian 7.62s don’t break walls unlike German 7.92s.
false again. Great survivability if your never penned and people aim for the worst spots to hit. Otherwise your dead upon first pen.
true, but it took forever to get great cas / spaa. Nor does having multiple versions of a tank really matter. There’s so many abrams / leopards.
You’ve shown me you just regurgitate false hoods others have told you.
Those French thermals are outdated ones sold to Russia by Thales they were not the same quality that Thales supply the Leclerc with now.
There were some significant changes to the 2A4 to become the 2A5. The 2A4 was already superior to the T-80 and 72 models fielded by the Soviets. A fair point though
I got the BVM a few months ago, was sorely disappointed after getting it spaded and haven’t bothered with it for ages.
Rather use the VT4A1 or the Abrams over it.
was gonna say as well almost every top tier is packing gen 2 thermals for no other reason than balance.
I’m sorry but they were still generation two thermals that were not bad at all.
Ofc it’s not the same supplied to Thales now, however the leclerc S1 has the same quality of thermals as the SXXI which just shows how irrelevant that comment is in game.
most top tier all get the same thermal quality when it should be marginally different for them all.
There are significant changes to the BVM compared to the T80B it’s based off of?
Thermal upgrade, complete FCS overhaul, complete overhaul of the hull composites.
faster auto loader . better engine etc etc.
For russia yup they are T10M I love to roll around in man.