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part of it is japan's airforce still using old planes because they were still sissycaged from WW2
part of it is you can't really be a plane otaku for fake planes, that's not something you can see at a military family day or obsess about in world of tanks forums.

part of it is ace combat does actually have a future tech progression but most games take place before it happens. AC3 is the furthest game in the timeline and, semi-oficially, leads in to bamco's broader united galaxy space force timeline