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Balancing: Less manurable vanilla Felon with heavier armaments leaning into the 4.5 gen role of the Su-57 family.

Sp weapons could be:

10AMM: Visually 3 mounted in each bay and 4 on the outer pylons.

BDSP: Visually mounted inside the weapons bay like on the X-02 in AC4

LASM: Visually 2 mounted on the outer pylons

Potential skins:

Okhotnik - For the default, good to have not just the usual felon paint job.

Paintless - Teal and lime green to represent the early faze of development (If its even real)

Blue waves - You know the first post about this thing had those swooshes at the front, this skis is basically that but instead of digital camo at the back its swooshes down the whole plane.

8492nd - because this plane doesn't/does exist.

Russian navy - The Su-30sm2's paint scheme on this plane since I've also heard rumours of it being navel capable (Despite Russia not having an aircraft carrier other then the broken down old tractor know as the Kuznetsov)

Glowing red - "Did the Big Suka Sukhoi scams hire GOD!?!?"

I'm pretty sure that guy who made the "Su-57D" Hoax your seeing now used some sort of image generator to do it. If he put in more effort into making it look real he'd should have called it "Su-57PU" or "SU-60" cus Russia doesn't use American designation for there aircraft.

Map Border Expansion By ForeverAM

--->https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3623

RF-71 Oxwagon By BelkanLoyalist

--->https://www.nexusmods.com/acecombat7skiesunknown/mods/3270

SO with congress approving the restoration of a F-14D to fight worthiness I thought it be the best time to pitch the idea of making a playable "Advanced Strike Fighter-14 (ASF-14)" as a mod for AC7.

The ASF-14 was a later variant in the proposed Super Tomcat 21st century family. It would've featured:

• New IR sensors and new sensors in general
• AESA Radar
• New engines
• Datalink
• In built targeting pod
• Lower landing speed
• New counter measures system
• Composite construction
• Digitalized systems
• Fully glass cockpit
• Leading edge extensions (Similar to the Super hornets)
• Super cruise
• New multi-role armament (AIM-152 HRM or GDW, guided munitions, stand off weapons and even nuclear capability)
• Freaking thrust vectoring
• Fly by wire.
• Improved sweep wing
• Improved HUD

However like 90% of cool ass shit around this time the fall of the Soviet Union made justifying anything related the military harder, god forbid anything flying off a flight deck. Thus the peace dividend made planes like the F/A-18E/F Super hornets more appealing as a cost effective platform although not being as capable. This would totally not come back to bight the navy in the ass in like 35 odd years when they would need aircraft to do long range for operations in the Indo-Pacific far far away from port.

NOW as for in-game balance I propose ASF-14 to have capabilities like or slightly above those on the Su-30SM just with only half PSM like with the F/A-18E. The Su-30SM in the tech tree is on par with the YF-23 and F-35C only lacking in stealth. So theoretically if it was on the tech tree it would be after the F-35 but before the YF-23.

AS FOR Special weapons.

SP1- HVAA: Represented by the AIM-152 (HRM), Visually 6 are mounted.

SP2 - 8AAM: Represented by the AIM-152 (GDW). Visually 15 are mounted to the plane plus a radar pod. (Please note the picture you see of the GDW variant would've been flush with the fuselage and you would've only seen the missiles popping out)

SP3 - LACM: Represented by the AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER. Visually I'd think either all 4 SLAM-ERs under the fuselage, 2 SLAM-ERs on the outer pylons and 2 under the fuselage or 6 of them on all the pylons would be the layout.

FOR the skins you can add what ever you want with A.S.S. support or course. But here are some of my personal ideas.

• Blank emblems, Clean grey for Osea slot
• Blank emblems, Mat black similar to Levy's paint scheme from AC4 for the Erusea slot
• ST-21 Paint scheme for the special slot
• Different Mage, Spare and Strider skins instead of copy paste
• VF-111 Sun downers (because they have my fav tomcat skin)
• Jungle wing Skin from AC6
• Some sort of Monarch skin
• Maverick, nothing more need said
• Night sky with the northern lights skin (Yes localized entirely on the aircraft)
• Razgriz skin because of course. (perhaps 1-4)
• The evitable anime skin
• Mobius 1/ISAF type skin
• Zipang inspired skin
• Fictional export skins to air forces like the RAF, JSDAF, Luftwaffe or where ever else
• Some sort of super special skin that replaces the LACM with a dumb bomb nuke I was taking about earlier

AND with all of that said and done all of this is a concept. Its not real, yet. I want to see what y'all think of my pitch and the ASF-14 Tomcat as a whole. I would LOVE to see some one in the community make this thing into a reality.

To all pilots, over and out.

Project aces predicting the future of warfare part 3156...

This is the Shield "Ai" X-BAT VTOL uncrewed drone with AMRAAMs and other ordnance. This thing has no landing gear so it lands ON ITS ENGINE LIKE A ROCKET.

In real use this drones only job is to be a problem to enemy fighter jets and make them waste missiles on less valuable targets. Kinda like a Air-to-air sherhed with AMRAAMs.

****Can not confirm if true at this time**** Thought it be ultra funny