Although the Gripen A/C doesn’t have stealth like the F35/F22 it does have a pretty small radar cross section of around 1.5sq.m, and the Gripen E has an even smaller one of 0.5sq.m. for comparison larger aircraft like Su27 is around 15sq.m and F15 25sq.m. This also depends on a bunch of different factors so take it with a grain of salt
What’s even more interesting is that Sweden supposedly has extremely impressive electronic warfare capabilities to a point where they’ve been able to sneak up on the wings of Eurofighters, completed full missions undetected in exercises (and even snuck up on an F22, but that’s just rumors). It basically works by jamming radar
This stuff is like the most top secret aspect of the Gripens so there’s not much we know but for what it’s worth…
Stealth aircraft wouldn’t even really be much different to what we already experience in game. At the ranges we engage at, the stealth factors wouldn’t be useful.
We’ll likely see stealth aircraft in 3 years as the rank 9 aircraft, and people will prefer 4th gen jets and non-stealth 5th gen jets like Su-57.
Su-57 vs Rafale is what I want to see.
If you merge in this thing you’re basically dead, it has no cannon and relies on a very limited amount of missiles, one of its opponents will have a DIRCM.
I feel like the F-117 would be the likely first stealth but I’m not sure how GJ would be able to deal with these since much of the information is still classified. I think before adding Stealth, we need a game mode which would be able to make use of it.
Wow, can’t wait to fly the F-117 that can only mount two (x2) bombs and still be locked and fired upon within the ranges WT plays at. No CMs, abysmal TWR and no offensive weapons.
It’s only use would be a cool nuke bomber for GRB.
Could be boring given that basically all of NATO would get the F35, so only thing left is Russia and China. Most other stealth aircraft like the J-20 and SU-57 are multi-role with the F-22 purpose built interceptor.
First of all, they cannot put in vehicles that the necessary information for, is mostly classified/sensitive.
Also top tier aircraft are arguably even more advanced piece of weaponry than top tier tanks, so they are likely even more closely guarded, which means less usable documents and worse consequences for leaking information about them by implementing them based on sensitive documents.
Now, given the development of war in Ukraine, relations between USA and China and consequently countries drastically increasing budget for their military, its possible that development of war machinery is going to speed up, which will make current tech obsolete more quickly and its declassified enough to the point where it can start to be safely implemented into the game.
Regarding oldest stealth stuff like F-117 Nighthawk, depends on how much info is already publicly available.
Here’s all the information they need to replicate F-35:
Radar, it’s AESA which is a surprisingly open standard.
RCS, an estimate.
And flight model.
That’s all they need to simulate it.
They don’t need to know the materials, or subsystems.
