I have a love/hate relationship with the air vehicles in Battlefield 2. On the one hand, I love piloting the chopper with the HOTAS Saitek I have, especially ferrying squads in the Blackhawk. However, I freaking hate the jets, partly because I can't fly them (too fast for my reflexes) and because when I see one, I tend to die briefly after. However, Battlefield 3 wouldn't be a Battlefield game if it didn't have these demons of the sky, and aside from a few brief shots in the videos that have been released, there's been scant information about jets or choppers.

Wake Island and Gulf of Oman will have jets.

Yeah, it really depends on what kind of maps we'll be seeing in this game.  A lot of people complained about the jet whoring and domination that happened in previous versions of Battlefield 2, so maybe they're trying to address that.  If we get a lot of those vast open maps, I'm sure we'll see some air vehicles in there.

I could go for more effective surface-to-air weapons. There was a time where SAMs were effective against jets, but hardcore pilots complained and the SAMs were nerfed. There's got to be a happy middle ground.

Q: Where are the jets in BF3
A: Not shown yet

Q: Why does BF3 look like BC2
A: Because MP gameplay demos, leaked and official, only show Rush mode which is BC2 as hell

Q: Will I need a fat six-core i7 and SLI/CF cards and 12 gigs of RAM to run this at a playable framerate on PC? 
A: If you have a decent quadcore and graphics card and 4+ gigs of RAM you're perfectly fine
 
 
edit: fixed formatting, fuck the new editor

DICE are scared shitless of the community, and they also don't seem to have a big enough portion of the game finished.. 
 
so they'll keep feeding us operation metro for now

I could go for more effective surface-to-air weapons. There was a time where SAMs were effective against jets, but hardcore pilots complained and the SAMs were nerfed. There's got to be a happy middle ground.

 No jets in Rush and it's difficult to release good footage of conquest.