that’s a J-16
Yeah typo
It being in service is irrelevant here. If jet is capable and/or Devs consider it necessary (as compensation for poor performance, like the double racks on Su-27SM or R-27ER on Soviet MiG-29)
Personally, would prefer to just have ECM with explicit (game wise) purpose of tracking BVR imbalances (plus the introduction of new long range SAMs might push it a bit more too)
Edit: Although Snail can put a funny one and just add R-27P. Good luck notching anti-rad, lmao. But alas, we know their attitude towards ARMs
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they should rather fix the FM, instead of giving it more missiles to compensate
we saw where that leads with the Mig-29
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China has a weak engine resource
This is very funny… But no.
Should be pretty much the same TWR as Su30s if not better. Pre 41 s obviously, in theory it is lighter but IDK.
I mean, they did fix (or, well, improved) it. But missiles and better engines stayed
They are at a similar level to Russia who also suffer from poor engine quality and reliability.
As for payloads it was an official model from Shenyang.
In game PL-15 will be one of the best missiles in game, Su-35S/M can carry 4 R-37M? and the rest are R-77-1
it can carry 6 R-37M’s, they can fit between the intakes, under the intakes and in the inner wing pylons
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I did think maybe 6 I have only seen 4 in images between the engines and 2 on the wings.
Mix of 10 very potent missiles. PL-17 would be the R-37M equivalent.
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This is just a funny model.
No. It depends on how the developers make this missile.
In real life, it doesn’t fly as far as the R-37M.
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I was talking about engine life, not TWR.
Which is valid, not in war thunder but makes a good point we know China and Russia are behind on Western power plants while they can produce engines that have excellent performance rebuild and maintenance windows are more frequent.
Russia and the West are the same in engine life
they are not anymore, that was certainly true during the soviet times and the 90’s to early 2k’s but they caught up, the Al-31FN series 5 has 5/6k hours mtbo iirc and produces as much thrust as the AL-41F1S of the Su-35S
Well tbf what we know about Chinese engines stopped when a Xi came to power.
^^ true
And tbh the engine capabilities of China changes every few uears. If u think about it, J8F to J20 took less than a decade. This might not be the case for engine but just that this stuff changes so quickly.
