Top tier USA and ISR are too weak and need F-35A now

[quartas121]

@I MiikaL I@live

The F-15E was a dominant CAS platform on release

GBU-39 swarm was a big part of that, which F-15I got too

[HauptmannPingu]

Don’t think ROCAF will ever get F-35A.

[_Renzo]

@I MiikaL I@live

but had to wait months for it instead)

More like had to wait 27 days.

[Thodin]

Would be Stealth even a factor at those typical ranges in Air RB? I’ve read its just a thing you achieve with careful missionplanning, AI calculated fligh plans, considering known enemy radar systems. Also sufficient range to known radar installations and enemy flights. As far as I understand it, stealth fighters wouldn’t be much different to any gen 4.5 one, if you’re just going into the fray?

[ILuvAna_De_Armas]

Interesting post on how stealth can affect arh seekers, radar is a different story though.

F-22 Raptor

using the f-117 as an example, most aesa/pesa planes can detect it without problems at 30km+ ranges, the su-30sm2 has the longest range radar in game and can detect the f-117 at 100km+ the performance of fox 3 seekers vs the f-117 is terrible on the other hand, they can only get locks at 5km in a headon, anything above that and they stay on iog + dl or only iog if you don’t have datalink, when on iog only you can easily get out of the fov of the seeker and not even have to notch it, notching w…