I don’t really understand why the A-7 Corsair 2 is in its battle rating for air realistic battles.
From my experience playing the plane, it cant get to the battle before all of the bases are gone, and its at a br where bases very rarely re spawn before the game is over so bombing is effectively out of the question.
It is sub sonic, with horrible maneuverability so you cant dogfight, at most being able to do head-ons and hoping they fly in a straight line.
At max it only get 2 missiles aim9Js on the 10.3 one and Gs on the 10.7 one. A far inferior missile to all the other strike aircraft with similar abilities.
So im just confused how this is at this br, or even after the A-10, a plane that gets 4 aim9ls at the same br with way more countermesures and can manuver better.
It just feels completely useless with a lot of my games literally acheaving nothing, not even dieing before i can get to a base on EC maps. Isn’t planes like this exactly why aircraft normally get 2 battle ratings one for air and one for ground, did they just forget about it, or is it somehow “ballanced” in a way i dont understand cause from my perspective its drastically outmatched by everything at its br and it cant even bomb anymore since they “Fixed” base respawns.
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Forgotten plane.
Worst among all overrated attackers in ARB.
A-7D is way worse than F8U-2 or Saab F-35
A-7E is way worse than F-8E or A-10A Late/SHAR FRS.1(Early)
A-7K is pure nonsense to compare it with F-4E or AV-8B(NA)
Fun fact: Saab F-35, A-10A Late/SHAR FRS.1 Early/AV-8B(NA) are classified as the same Attacker as A-7 does.
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Just learnt theres a event version of the plane that gets 2 aim9ls and im assuming because of that its at 11.3 … the A-10A Late gets 4 and is at 10.7 with the A-10A premium getting 2 aim9ls at 10.3 a full br lower with way better armament. I dont understnad this at all, i feel like it cant be played in Air RB, and it feels like with every “Fix” they just push away the people who want to play these planes or only make them viable in ground where you need an entire new tech tree to play them
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Everything else at its BR either goes supersonic, or gets all aspect 30g missiles.
Every time I see one I feel bad for it. The only strategy I think you can do with it is bring the m61a1 or colt gunpods and load them all with stealth belts to have 3 miniguns for headons lmao
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Exactly this with a squad of three is actually quite fun. If first guy misses second and third is there. Turn on periodic countermeasures
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A7’s BR was done before all the added on compressions, 9L decompression, 10.3-10.7 decompression and 10.7-10.3 recopmpression. 10.3 was a good BR for it if we look down to 9.0 and 9.3, but we had 10.0 q5c for a long while, also f8u &c. Plus A7 has never got the separate BRs which the playerbase aimed for (high GBR low ABR)
So did they just forget about it? Cause right now it really feels like it would be fine a full br lower and is incredibly hard to get anything done at all in air.
This entire Br range just feels really wierd.
This is quite literally the only way ive been able to do anything in matches, 90% of the time all the bases are gone so i cant bomb, so im just stuck with gunpods hopeing people do a headon with me and dont realise im shooting a wall of lead at them.
Last time I saw someone complained about A7, many opposed for less missiles in 9.x
After that there came F58. lol