Talk:Ace Combat: Joint Assault/@comment-25745922-20151218124655/@comment-2094030-20151218154821

The closest one to Joint Assault setting is Assault Horizon. It's true that ACAH doesn't have superweapons. But since when playable superplanes become a central factor in the series? If JA was the prequel for ACAH and the future doesn't have superweapons, it's explainable. Evaluations following the creation of GAF-1, Spiridus, and Orgoi result in the ineffectiveness of those giant weapons against small and nimble fighters. In this timeline, GAF-1 would be developed after the earlier CFA-44 that has entered production since the Soviet era, and the CFA-44 somehow influences the design. Similarities in design include the very highly swept wings, multi missiles (small and weak but so many ADMM for CFA-44, large and strong but only four ODMM for GAF-1). Overall, GAF-1 is a major improvement from CFA-44, being more powerful and very well defended. Superweapons were deactivated by the time ACAH begins and the PMCs were already disbanded after the world order re-stabilized. About the damages in Tokyo after the attacks from Spiridus and Orgoi, Japan is a country known for very quick recovery. 5 years is more than enough to repair the damages. Unlike Ulysses damage, damage from Spiridus railgun covers not so much of the city, and Japan recovers. Why Nosferatu and Shinden appear in ACAH but not JA while the Nosferatu already existed since Soviet? Secrets. Russians are not willing to share the info of their most powerful aircraft to both the IUPF and Valahia. During the events of ACAH, Russia is also under threat and works together with NATO. After the government was taken over, the loyalists gave an airworthy Nosferatu to the Americans so that it can be used by a better pilot, knowing its power and the skills of Warwolf 1.