There are years old bug reports that still haven’t been fixed, 5th gen shouldn’t come in another year or so.
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How is the radar spotting and radar missile lock against 5th gen?
Are we going back to planes fighting with cannons and short range IR missiles? If that so, then it is going to be a lot of fun.
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not exactly i mean at;east US 5th gens are alot stealthier in the infrared department compared to 4th and other 5th gens due to their nozzles, coatings, cooling ducts etc iirc the f22 has a 60% reduced infared signature compared to the f15C and the f35 is about 40% compared to a f16
and as far as I am aware, PIRATE is still able to lock up a F-22 at about 40-50km. With more modern system. Im sure that number may be higher
It’s most likely gonna be F-35 vs F-22 vs SU-57 vs J-35 or J-20 but most used and seen aircraft would be F-35
Wasn’t it like 37 km? (I could be wrong as i read about it a very long time ago)
Im just going by vague memory too. But in either case, if a system from the early 2000s can do 37km. Imagine what Litening V tpod or the upgraded PIRATE could do. Let alone any other system
I guess the first 5th gen fighter aircraft might be F-22A (early service)
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No, they are not needed anytime soon.
New additions came in too quickly lately anyway and we all know how “well” balanced top tier is whenever a new step like this is taken.
5th gen will just be very manouvrable missile busses, given how ARB plays out you just lock eachother from 60km, fire a few Aim120d/R37, rearm and repeat.
Stealth will be a non factor unless maps change to something more akin deep strike.
5th gen would be nice to see but really? we gonna need ECM pods with the missile hell those classified jets would bring, majority of it isn’t even credible enough to be added accurately into war thunder due to it being classified to hell and back, it would be almost entirely guesswork, can’t use wiki and it’s references as it might undercut their capabilities by as much as 50% or exaggerate their capabilities with state propaganda sources to stop foreign states from figuring out just how good or bad the jet actually is.
Maybe some angry gamers gonna leak the classified manuals on the forums again over their fav 5th gen jet not being accurately coded
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WW1-Planes first
I really dont want 5th gen. I think Gaijin will mess up their balancing. I would much rather have more cool cold war jet prototypes etc. IMO they shouldnt have added such modern jet variants that quickly.
yeah they definitely need to figure out ECM pods. several countries suffer without BOL pods…
They’re rushing to get to 5th gen by summer next year. Keep losing players due to bugs and balancing. Best way to bring them back and new players will be the planes dominating the skies today.
Its really sad to see. Gaijin has done lots of great stuff and has modeled lots of things pretty well all things considered. I just wish they would focus a bit more on bug fixing. The infantry gamemode seems cool and all. But i really dont want another gamemode filled with bugs…
We’ll sooner see a flying Maus in the game, weighing 188 tons (414,000 burger units) and being a TANK, than get properly implemented stealth technology in the game - but whatever, buff the soviets; Americans don’t cry enough anyway
Their focus is on new content. That’s how they plan on surviving till next year. You think they will stop after 5th gen to fix the game? No no no no. They’re gonna add 6th gen and hypotheticals.
Nah, don’t think so, they will be adding more infantry stuff, and less planes/tanks etc, maybe they will improve loadouts, more components
I dont think they will go to 6th gen with the lack on info on them but they will potentially add some overkill missiles…