It is fairly maneuverable (able to pull significantly more AOA than eurofighter)
and it can carry a lot of missiles externally
Qualities the Super Hornet also have.
F35 does both better
while also being able to rate with F16s
I mean like the F-35 will still have aim-120c, I don’t know what this dude thinks a different carrier of the aim-120 is gonna do
His whole complaint is that US and ISR have bad missile and radar. Well technically US now has a good radar, and ISR technically has the C.10 B60.
As for the missiles, we know they suck. F-35 won’t change that, gaijin correcting it to its proper statistics will.
Anyway F-47 next update sounds like a good idea
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wanna see the unclassified sources you have that allows you to say that F-35 does better than F/A-18E and can rate a F-16.
you’re considering that:
13.170 kg F-35A (having a lifting body, but fairly more swept wings) - TWR of 0.87 (fully loaded)
to be better than
14.552kg F/A-18E (with practically no sweep in the wings) - TWR of 0.93 (fully loaded)
OR
9207kg F-16V (with half of the sweep in the wings in comparison to the F-35) - TWR of 1.095 (fully loaded)
mass given for “empty weight”.
F16V has a TWR of 1.095?
Well if F-35 would suck (which it most likely will as you mentioned all of its cons) in game then most nation in terms of 5th gen (beside US, China and Russia) aircrafts will also suck
F-35 would be when actual balance be achieved, as everyone but Russia gets exact same aircraft.
Depends more on the missile, european can use meteor and israel can use skysting. Which both are better than aim120d.(assume gaijin didnt add aim260).
When the F35 drops every nation will have it in their TT, USA will get all 3 of them with one being premium. USA can hope to have the F22 altough the F22A will be also be premium.
So when they add it, it will not swing the scale at all.
I mean the US could technically ask for meteors on their F-35s due to them “technically being compatible” and due to them integrating them.
Leaving the argument aside of me actually wanting that or not (I’m pretty indifferent to it so I have no real opinion), nation mains from other nations would have very little ground to complain.
US F-35 seems to be the only ones that can use them yet
Well even US f-35 would be able to carry meteors. Since it would be compatible hence there are chance of US also getting it for “balance reason” unless they completely nerf the meteor. I fully expect my fellow US mains to ask for meteor.
I don’t think any of the F-22 would be premium. YF-23 would be the premium 5th gen IMO or one of the 3 F-35 would be premium (which i think is very unlikely)
biblically accurate aim120c7