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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No there is a baseline of technical innovation that will set 1 gen from another. What technological innovation did this jet bring from 4th gen or 4.5 gen fighters?
No other 4th gen fighter can carry 10 AAMs internally
Since someone will have already said this things:
Yes the prototype built only had external hard points because the internal weapon’s bay (which the hypothetical production version should have had) were not built… if modelled in war thunder it probably would have said weapon bay (just like yak141 has IRST).
Second: idk about the prototype, but the project was intended to have S shaped air intakes.
Still, looking at 90s Russia, The chances this thing came any close to the F-22 Stealth capabilities are close to 0.
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