Board Thread:Ace Combat 7/@comment-26988364-20151207072052/@comment-139.192.6.243-20160105145921

For those debating the year AC7 will take place, let's assume that Strangereal's year is NOT the same as our Earth's year (e.g: 2015 in Strangereal IS NOT EQUAL to 2015 in our Earth).

Some notable examples just to refresh our memories, which I assume everyone here has known them :

- In our universe, the F-22 Raptor (yes, not the YF-22 one) isn't introduced until 1997. While in Strangereal universe, we've already seen it in 1995 as it is featured in ACZ. Funny thing is that AC2, which takes place in the late 90s in Strangereal, features the YF-22 incarnation of it, although ACAHL (remake of AC2) featured F-22 instead of YF-22.

- PAK FA is featured in ACAHL, which takes place in the 90s of course since it's a remake of AC2, while in our universe it isn't introduced until somewhere in the 2000s since the Russians were demonstrating their Su-47 and MiG 1.44.

- F-14D Super Tomcat is still in active service in Strangereal in the year 2020, as evidenced in ACX. While in our world (ACAH and ACI's earth doesn't count) they have been retired by USN many years ago. Only IRIAF operates it as of today, and that is the A version of F-14.

tl;dr we can come to conclusion that Strangereal's is entirely different than our Earth's. I'm sure most of you already understood this.

And also don't forget that most of numbered AC titles takes place not more than 10 years in the future. Although this time in AC7 might or might NOT be different.