They operate the fighter.
It is an evolution of the SU30MKK/MK2.
The Su-35 doesn’t have AL51 engines; these will be fitted to the brand-new Su-57M. And I probably expect to see the Su-35 next year alongside the R77M. The Su-35 + R77M will devour other aircraft like a beast.
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I just want the aim120 fixed.
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I don’t believe the US really has anything viable to it. The F/A-18E is going to be about the same, if not slightly worse than the F/A-18C. The Golden Eagle maybe but its no Rafale or EFT. It will be interesting to see if the US gets to solo the F-35 for an update or two before its doled out to everyone else. Air Sim battles at top tier are going to suck unless its literally NATO vs Russia/China.
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No need for the F-35 The F15EX would slot pretty well into the current top tier meta
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Primary operators will absolutely get the F-35 in the same update US gets it. That is, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Israel. Then France and Sweden through their subtrees.
By the way there’s plenty interesting stuff to get before that, like advanced eagles, late F-16s and early F-22As
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They won’t. Why would they be the only nation to receive 5th gens?
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Yeah buddy that ain’t happening i would like my 5th gen we get 10% on every build
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Because he doesn’t care about balance and he wants US dominance.
Can’t wait for the F-35 to come out and the Brit is the best one cause it gets METEOR’s haha.
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Monkey paw will curl hard when they realise the SU-57 has a 360° DIRCM and given how Gaijin models those, good luck hitting it with a fox-two
The russians really thought about war thunder when developing the Su-57
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Because they were first to have them in real life
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Well, we can just hope they release it into the game before some other countries will have them on service (orders doesn’t count, only actual jets in service).
So only Soviets get the Su-57 and the rest either with their own technologies, or F-35, but not Su-57
That makes zero sense because that’s not how it works in War Thunder lol.
You’ll have it when everybody has it
Also, bad can of worms to open…
At least F-22 was the first one and no one will have it but US
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That’s true
Though each nation will have their own spice of F-35, so it’s not exactly copy paste
It’s up to debate which nations will have the best variants
Italians also use Meteors and US tested them at least, plus Gaijin can do the same thing as with Typhoons and play “technically possible” card.
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Well there’s good reason no one else uses LDIRCM systems on fighters (i’ll give you a hint, they don’t work)
I’m assuming the british, german and italian F-35s will ship with Meteors and other Euro-ordinance that’s been proposed and at various stages of integration
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Oh yeah forgot the get ASRAAMs as well, nice.