The A5C is currently not suitable for a 10.7 BR, especially since other aircraft such as the MiG-25, F-4E, and F-4EJ all have semi-active radar missiles with greater overload capability, while the A5C only has two Matra Magic 1 missiles. At the same time, the top speed and acceleration of the A5C are too low, making it unable to catch up with planes like the Tornado and F-104 in raid zones, thus preventing it from performing its role as an advanced vehicle.
Based on the above information, I think the A5C should be downgraded to either 10.0 or 10.3.
There’s no way in hell that is a serious estimate. 😭😭😭
You see? The problem is that it is a plane that can dogfight most planes in that BR, and out run a few with relative ease and it has those nasty Magic 1 missiles and countermeasures, which is quite the combination and isn’t normal within 10.0 or even 10.3.
And the AV-8B (NA) is 11.3 with no SARH missiles either, 4 aim-9Ls that are simple to flare, slow, mid turn time without VTOL and a decent ground payload. Seriously dude, what are u cooking up? The matras are also very decent missiles especially at 10.7
They’re good, but rear aspect only, while at 10.7 there are several aircraft (slow attackers admittedly) with all aspect missiles.
What strikes me odd about the A-5’s placement is it’s in almost all aspects completely obsolete tech: That bird does not even have SAS, a very limited ballistic computer only for CCIP, no HUD. It’s only saving grace is an ok-ish RWR and quite good speed for an attacker.
Its more so a compression issue. 10.0 and 10.3 doesn’t really have good counterparts aside from a few outliers, but some of the current 10.7 are arguably too strong for 10.7
It’s 10.7 only because it can potentially kill 2 bases in one sortie, that’s it. The kit is really mid and the only good thing is pretty much the RWR, the Magic 1 are decent, but at 10.7 aren’t anything special considering all other attackers have all-aspect missiles. But imo the most critical part is the extremely low CM count. Also is faster than most attackers but still slower than all fighters you encounter, so if you want to bomb you’ll have to wait 5 minutes for bases to respawn.
Given that they nerfed the napalm bombs a while back, and now you need to carry the heavy rockets too to kill 2 bases I was expecting it to be lowered or at the least to receive 64 CM, there is a bug report waiting for implementation that said all the Q-5 family aircraft should have 64 CM instead of 18, but instead nothing happened.
Unfortunately many players still remember it when it was 10.0 and so they have a distorted view of it, the plane can work at 10.7, I researched the whole Chinese tech tree with it, but it’s very mid, it really depends on how competent enemy players are.
From what I understand it’s basically just a q-5 but with magics.
IMO it’s definitely fine at its br, it’s essentially a mig-19 with flares that compresses a bit more with 2 really good missiles.
10.3 lowest it could be. It was just broken when it was 10.0 and would be really good at 10.3. It’s worse than other 10.3s right now but only because those themselves are overpowered too.