Despite practically 0 chances of this to appear, I personally wouldn’t mind one day. Plus not being a proper 5th gen (stealth capabilities or, at very least, reduced radar signature is a requirement after all) would make it easier to model, so Gaijin wouldn’t need to invent whole new system for it
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this is definitely a plot to get someone to leak actual f22 data just to prove this dude wrong
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No, the MiG-1.44 was developed when stealth was very new and nobody really had any idea of how it worked.
The Su-35 and MiG-1.44 use the same engines
I can see straight through that
EDIT: Meant to say Su -35 not Su-34 sorry
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Let’s not add more things to the game that never carried weapons. Or things that never existed/partial prototypes (i’m looking at you Ho-Ri). I understand that people want all types of cool planes in this game. But adding something and slapping weapons on it that “it could’ve maybe carried” is a no go for me.
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Oh wow it’s an overused meme that doesn’t take into account pilot training or even who they fought against. Some MiG-29 kills were against other MiG-29s.
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Shhh, dont take away their fun and the sense of superiority (and dont ask which “MiG-23” in the stats are)
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Exactly, it’s not the plane, it’s its pilot. The MiG-23 is more or less an “interceptor” and meant to be flown and positioned in a way that puts it in a tactical advantage, which took time learning and training for too.
Yeah that’s… what I said?
They should get the Mikoyan MiG-25 first aka the world’s 2nd fastest Jet Interceptor!
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This tbh. Personally really wish for addition of 25 and 31 (especially MiG-31 for “It cant fly low, it doesnt even have a gun!” wouldn’t work on it)
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And how many of the US aircraft have outstanding BVR capabilities compared to these, decades old Soviet aircraft?
couldn’t they just add a “20 mm GSh-23L cannon on the sides”?
If such cases existed, but I doubt
Technically they could since the Japanese F-16AJ is fake
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True, but it still falls within “could it?”. Besides that, just middle range missiles and the loved/hated R-60
wdym by that?
It’s not a big surprise if we get access to F-35 or F-22 Russia would get same counterparts.
Su-57 is mostly impossible to come to the game as it’s not a full production scale product, so we barely know its capabilities.
Soviet Union has alot of cool projects and designs that could come to the game to substitute the Su-57 and make it fight F-35 or F-22.
In ground terms we would need a lot of improvements in the anti air issue, I’m talking about huge weapons to counter those aircraft in both sides.
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I mean it falls within hypothetical. Beyond “Could it take gunpods? Just in theory?” only armament is medium range missiles and R-60s (and IIRC regular one, imagine dogfighting for rear-aspect shot in MiG-25)
Actually will be because they will most likely never add it until War Thunder’s 50th or 100th anniversary
We already have the Su-57 bro
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