TL;DR, moving up the BRs of the Su-25, Su-25K and A-10A would fix the issues of some planes around their BRs not having flares while seeing their all-aspect missiles
So, I was unaware of how much time was to be given to discuss the decompression of the battle ratings regarding top-tier aircraft after the addition of ARH missiles.
Even with these changes, aircraft down low will still see All-Aspect missiles while having zero flares for themselves.
The following aircraft can still see all aspect missiles while lacking flares themselves:
US: F-104A/C, F-100D, F3H-2, F-105D, F-4C
Germany: MiG-19S, MiG-23BN
USSR: Yak-38/38M, MiG-19PT, MiG-21F-13/PFM/S(R-13-300), Su-7B/BKL/BMK, Su-17M2
Great Britain: Hunter F.6/FGA.9, Lightning F.6, Jaguar GR.1, Harrier GR.1
Japan: F-104J, T-2, F-1
China: F-104A/G, J-6A, J-7II, Shenyang F-5, F-100F
Italy: G.91 YS, Ariete, Sagittario 2
France: F-100D, Milan, Mirage IIIC/5F, SO.4050 Vautour IIB/A/N, Etendard IVM, Super Etendard, Hunter F.6
Sweden: J32B, J35D
Israel: Shahak, Nesher
That is a list of all aircraft that will still see all aspect missiles even with the new BR changes. There might be some aircraft that aren’t listed because I simply cannot see them, and there are some special cases that cannot be fixed. A large majority of these aircraft can simply be removed from this list by moving the Su-25/25K, A-10A “early” to 10.7, which removes the following aircraft from being able to see all aspect missiles:
US:F-104A/C, F-100D, F3H-2
Germany: MiG-19S
USSR:Yak-38/38M, MiG-19PT, MiG-21F-13/PFM, Su-7B/BKL/BMK
Great Britain: Lighting F.6
Japan: T-2
China: F-104A, J-6A, J-7II, Shenyang F-5, F-100F
Italy: G.91 YS, Ariete, Sagittario 2
France: Entendard IVM, Milan, Hunter F.6
Sweden: J32B
Israel: Nothing :(
The rest of the planes not listed are on a per-case basis and I can offer a possible solution to those that simply wouldn’t be fixed by moving them up. I’ll probably have to make another post on this when the updated battle rating drops, as I’m sure some of those higher aircraft it’ll mess them up.
F-105D: Honestly not sure why this thing sits so high currently, but I am not sure how you would fix it. This aircraft also does NOT need to be moved to 10.3
F-4C: The phantom, if all of those all-aspect attackers didn’t exist, this aircraft would honestly be just fine. But, since Gaijin also thinks it’s necessary to move this thing up to 10.7, which, honestly has zero justification being done. Keep the F-4C at 10.0, or give it countermeasure pods that were mounted in later C variants near the end of its service life.
MiG-23BN: You could maybe get away with this aircraft being moved lower in AirRB, but then it would pretty much be a MiG-23 fighter sitting at 9.3 that just lacks missiles. Keep it at its current BR, and for those looking to play it, just avoid getting within 2/3km of an R-60M/AIM-9L.
MiG-21S (R-13-300): Moving it down to 9.3 would be the easiest solution, but with that extra thrust it could become too good. Honestly, it could stay where it’s at, and the same general advice would apply to this aircraft, just stay away from those attackers.
Su-17M2: Honestly not sure how to balance this thing, but it does NOT need to go up in BR. Yes, it’s a supersonic sweep wing attacker, however, it has zero flares sitting at 10.3. It could go down to 10.0, but I could see this aircraft bullying 9.0 aircraft. Keep it as is since most 11.3 aircraft aren’t going to be 11.3 anymore, just, don’t move this aircraft up, it doesn’t need it.
Hunter F.6: Doesn’t need to be 9.7. Move it down to 9.3 just like the FGA.9 which has objectively better missiles at a lower BR, along with the Lightning F.6 also has objectively better missiles.
Jaguar GR.1: It could sit at its same BR and probably do just fine, following the same general advice against the attackers, to just not get within 2/3km of them in a head-on.
T-2: It could sit fine at its current BR. Plenty of speed to just run away from the attackers.
F-1: Drop it down to 10.0, and the same thing, just stay away.
F-104J: Drop it down to 10.0, stay away from attackers.
F-104G: Give it countermeasures like the rest of the F-104Gs. I don’t care if “they didn’t use them”, there should be no reason that one aircraft suffers because that specific variant doesn’t have flares while others of the same modification sit at just .4 BR higher with flares. Which, also, the other F-104Gs do not need to be going up to 11.3, unless there’s going to be this new nest of aircraft sitting at 11.3 with only IR rear-aspect missiles.
Oh boy, France, is the nation with the most flareless aircraft.
F-100D: This aircraft has zero reason to be sitting at 9.7 while the one in the US tree enjoys 9Es while also being at a lower BR. Move it down to 9.3.
Vautour IIB/A/N: This aircraft honestly has no reason to be sitting at 9.7 especially when the only one with any A-A armament is the N, which is a nearly USD 50 GE premium that only has manual guidance nords as it’s air to air. Move them down to 9.3.
Mirage IIIC: This aircraft can be moved down to 10.0 and be just fine. Sure, Magic 1s will be spicy at 9.0, but R-60s are found at 8.3 with the Yak-38s. The radar missiles provide zero justifiable reason to sit at 10.3 as you only have one of them, and both of the options aren’t very good.
Super Etendard: This aircraft has no reason to be moved to 10.3. I can suggest moving it to 10.3 for GRB, because of its guided ordinance, however, there is nothing worthy of 10.3 material for this aircraft.
J35D: It can sit at its current BR and do just fine, there is no reason for an aircraft like this to be engaging targets with all-aspect missiles with this aircraft’s flight performance.
Shahak: Keep it at it’s current BR. The only reason that the French Mirage IIIC is higher than this one is because of the Magic 1s, and that isn’t even a good reason. Just don’t engage attackers where they will have the advantage.
Nesher: Once again, it’ll do just fine sitting at its current BR, just don’t engage the subsonic all-aspect attackers.