YF-23 Black Widow

Its possible. but whether stealth aircraft beyond anything other than the F-117 is a big maybe.

Trying to model and balance stealth vs stealth is going to be hard enough as it is, without also trying to make it fair and balanced for none-stealth aircraft to compete.

There really isnt enough options to flush out the BR for every nation.

F-22, J-20 maybe the Su-57 (quite a bit of debate around whether its actually all that stealthy)

and then the F-35, which strictly speaking, isnt a A2A fighter.

Aircraft like the Tyhpoon, Rafale, Gripen, F-15, etc etc etc would all face a fairly notable disadvantage in a typical match. Whilst I wouldnt discount them entirely, it would be really hard to balance fairly.

I can see the game capping out at the late Gen 4.5s and apart from the F-117, the rest to be omitted.

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I agree with you but Gaijin aren’t going to stop adding modern vehicles (excluding Naval of course) and the demand for it is high from these typical Gen 4 jet ret@rds.
WT is a lot like DCS where most of the fun stuff is Mid Cold War

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YF-23 for premium

maybe even before

no, squadron vehicle or event

Is the same logic applied to ground vehicles? Lots of experimental tanks in USSR tech tree is all

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Most of us could get paper stealth, FCAS,NGAD,FS2020 etc. they are just as viable with the current stealths as everything is classified anyway.

Well, not really but I mean we barely know anything for a fact about current so they would have to be majority made up stats.

only in historical configuration without radar or weapons or flares

We already have non historical prototypes like the yak 141 in game.
Would not be a huge surprise to see a yf 23 equiped for combat.
Especially since that plane is kinda famous nowadays.

Relevant:

I see that the YF-23 can only carry 3 AIM-120D-3 and 2 AIM-9X, so can it reduce Br to zero like the F-22?

It can’t carry either since both didn’t exist for years after they stopped flying the YF-23

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the yf-23 didn’t even have bays for sidewinders

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they cannot add the yf-23 to war thunder, they need to add proposed f-23 instead. the problem is that the f-23 is magnitudes times more fiction than something like the yak-141, at least for yak 141 we knew exactly which and how many weapons it would carry, and there’s even pictures of it carrying said missiles. yf-23? It ain’t carry stuff
for example, here is an f-23 proposal (not yf-23). It wouldve had chaff/flares and actual functioning weapon pylons


diagram with potential 2 120s

Spoiler

the yf23 was cancelled before the AIM-120A entered service

yf-22 fired aim 120s, it wasn’t a part of the requirements but aim 120s were in testing since the 80s

mind blown

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this thing should be added with the su-75, theyre very similar (both prototypes)
OFC su-75 would be leagues better but in terms of general shape and design they follow the same principles