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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I’m not talking about the Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 57 but Sukhoi Su-57 Felon.
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I know it was a joke hehe.
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Probably 4th gen. I think it needs stealth capabilities to classify as a 5th gen if my memory is correct.
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It usually is considered a 4-1/2 gen fighter depending on who you ask.
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Lockheed Martin marketing towards dumb politicians. In this planes case, the internal weapons bay capacity sets it apart from other 4 gens
There generally isn’t a baseline that hasn’t anything to do with marketing used and considering the first 5th gen was american and main gimmick was stealth, it just carried on
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no offence but that plane looks like a child’s drawing of a stereotypical fighter jet
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