But I am, because you refuse to acknowledge the circumstances to add it, when it has its “equivalent”
It’s equivalent? What the raptor? I wouldn’t consider this equivalent to the raptor.
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I, lack the ability to deal with you right now. (That’s because you can the reasoned with)
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There still isn’t truly an equivalent to the F-22 yet. (I mean, unless your Chinese and believe the propaganda about their copy cat fighters :P)
Closest we have is the Felon/F-35/J-20/the Turkish thingy, and whatever Japan cooks up in the coming years (rumors of F-23 revival for that lmao, plez I pray)
The F-22 just has a superior RCS, better dog-fighting performance, better power plant and T/W ratio (most of the time), better radar and avionics (I’d assume given how much I pay in taxes lmfao), and air to air missiles (for the most part)
The only real comparable competition I see it ever having is the Su-75, as it looks pretty sleek, but also quite budgetary and lackluster. It seems small, lacking in armament/capabilities and meant to be a low cost option. 5th gen F-5/F-20 more or less… we’ll have to see how it turns out when it comes around in 2027ish. (Watch it get tested in Iran or something and get absolutely slaughtered by raptors, eagles, and lightnings)
We’ll see I guess.
@Zyranovos meant to reply this to you lol, whoops
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Name any equivalent to it, there isn’t.
No other nation has a “stealth” fighter with SARHs and first generation IRCCM missiles, thus making it very difficult to balance.
It also never had any pylons in the first place, the Yak-141 at least MOUNTED some missiles.
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No, it was just an unarmed testbed that did some testflights, atleast so I have heard.
There were 4 prototypes and they all mounted missiles.
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Never any actuall missiles. It only mounted mockups. Besides, the wiring required to actually fire them didn’t exist either.
But it was proven to be capable of carrying them without falling out of the air, as far as we know the MiG-1.44 would spontaneously combust the second you strapped a missile to it
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The prototype that was actually built most likely didn’t even have hard points.
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He, literally posted a photo of it with one on it…
The Mig 1.44… show me the hard points on the Mig 1.44
More than 6 are visible if I’m looking correctly.
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Cool, now prove to me the airflow around the missiles doesn’t send it into an irrecoverable superstall when it takes off.
Well it does have hard points functionality of them maybe a question but at least it has mounting points. some points in the book for it I guess. I only count 2.
I see at least 4. Which is still would be not nearly enough (dont there other +2)
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The rest were to be similar to how the F-15 mounts AIM-7 and AIM-120 to the lower of the fuselage I believe.
Because it’s literally 2 meters off the air intake…
I mean, come on, let’s use our brains here.
The inner bulge you circled is probably a Flap Fairing.
Used to cover the arms for the flap as seen here.
Yeah, seems like it. Heck, wish we had some IRL photos of it belly. It seems it could mount missiles there, but Im not sure (again, only pics I see are scaled models and drawings)