Besides the Hornets, several other aircraft can be sent to higher BRs in current meta.
12.3BR F-16A Block 10 was big mistake and C-S4 should also gets same BR with C-S5.
In ARB, perhaps only F-4EJ Kai and attackers like Harrier GR.7, Mirage 2000D-R1 can justify the BR at this time.
Honestly, I would like to see most aircrafts at that BR range should have better loadouts like Block 10/15 with AIM-9Ms, MiG-21bison with R-77s, F-14s with AIM-9L/Ms, etc but, mostly not possible at current meta.
F-14A can just get 9Ls and nothing will be oppressed by this though. It should already have them as no other 12.7 is left with rear aspects. Same with F-14B, it should get 9Ms.
i’d argue that without Agile Eagle and HMD, it can go 12.0 comfortably without actually being a supreme threat to downtier. That said the APG-66 is really something.
No, it wouldn’t. EJ Kai is a garbage jet currently with no hopes to succeed due to its highly limited flight platform (it shares its BR with purely gen4s and its matchmaker will never NOT include MANY gen4s in its games).
F-4S and FGR.2 are also just strictly worse by a LOT regarding radar capability… the F-4S is a worse jet.