Such as?
Its radar is pretty average compared to the Typhoon and Gripen.
Its Defensive suite again, pretty average.
Its loadout is more limited
Its FM is more limited
the range of weapons it can carry is more limited.
Even to a degree its fabled sensor fusion isnt really all that much better than a Typhoon equipped with Striker II.
So again. What does it actually do that makes it god tier aircraft? If/when it gets added to the game, its gunna be pretty mediocre
I hope that is true, because I can just as easily see gaijin rendering everything 1.0 below the Gen 5s/every 4.5 gen unplayable and not giving a crap about it.
The EFT competed against the F-35 in a lot of these trials.
So if the F-35 (which you claim isn’t a good aircraft) was chosen over the EFT, what does that tell about the EFT?
if you count latest ERCS (not in service) which might give it a comparable quality radar to APG-81, then i should be able to count next gen APG-85 for the F-35.
according to you and only you lol
but they are mostly better weapons with many more planned.
US Geopolitical pressure. They like to throw their weight around and apply pressure to deals. Should have seen everything they did to try and force UK to pull out of the Eurofighter project and then all the BS they pulled for ASRAAM to prevent the UK from exporting it to other countries. Thankfully they cant do the same for the Blk6
but you have yet to actually give a reason why the F-35 is a god tier aircraft?
RWR, MAWS, EW, what else does it have?
Those are fairly standard. I wouldnt be surprised if the Gripen E could give the F-35s EW suite a run for its money.
Such as?
I have never made that claim, I just put forward the fact that the EFT loses an awful lot of trials for being the supposedly worldbeater plane you make it out to be.
if youve been keeping up with the Canadian F-35 stuff, the only political pressure is against the F-35 but the actual Canadian military wants the F-35 over eurocanards
Typhoobn has limitations, sure. Not denying that. But US mains seem to operate on the idea that
“Made in US” = “best in the world by a significant margin”
Which is just nonsense.
In most actual real world situations, a euro-delta is more cost effective and more capable.
Take this thread. Can basically be summed up as “Abrams isnt the best, therefore, its underperforming”
Su57 is more useful than a f35.
euro deltas decorate the ground IRL while F-35’s dogwalk modern air defence networks.
only winning in games
So… What happened to that Israeli F-35?
You have also identified the single thing the F-35 can actually do. SEAD. Everything else, its average at best
But if you wanted to provide sustained CAS over target, why pick an F-35?
Its got way less weapon carrying capacity, meaning less time on station
they beat the air defence there
ah so you admit the typhoon is only good for fighting less than peer threats like insurgencies since this is the same logic used for A-10 over F-35
Minus the one that got shot down
Okay, so the F-35 is good for SEAD. What else then?
In A2A, its weaker than the Typhoon.
In providing sustained CAS. its weaker than the Typhoon.
In QRA, its weaker than the Typhoon.
in air policing, heck, its weaker than the Typhoon
Please, tell me why the F-35 is the best aircraft in the world. because so far. its a stealth jet. Thats litereally it, thats all its got going for it. Take that away. Its barely an upgrade over the F-16
I get it, US Mains cant cope they arent OP. And we all know, US mains have major skill issues. Heck, the F-15C GE would probably have a terrible K/D at 13.0 :D
cope lol, that did not happen
even european news says it isnt true Iran admits false claim that Israeli F-35 jets were shot down in 12-day conflict | Euronews
take away the eurofighter’s flight performance
Then it still has more missiles, better missiles, better radar, just as capable defensive suite, better A2G weapons, more A2G weapons, etc etc
Less payload mean a need of more plane.
More plane mean more money.
Each is around 120m, compared to a gripen with 40m
if its so much better it should win more contracts outside of the creator nations
Yep. F-35 is just a bad investment unless you really really want the stealth.
Stealth where a push of a button can kill the jets and never fly again lol