If you play top tier, when was the last time you got killed because you ran out of munitions and couldn’t fight back?
The F-16CM is a horrible aircraft with not much value to its name because of most of its qualities:
radar gets outclassed by almost everything else in its BR bracket.
munitions are horrible - I’ll expand, the only new addition to A2A weaponry is the AIM-120D, which only affects seeking time. and there’s too few pilons to even care about a 180 second seek time; who even tries for those kinds of shots?
it’s flight characteristics are very poor when compared to its common foes: think typhoon, rafale, gripen (sometimes Su-30 if the F16 pilot is dumb)
I think a way to cover up most of those issues is to give it the AIM-9X.
My reasons are that, it doesn’t require a radar, it can allow for a reason to people to grind it, and it would neglect the flight characteristics because it’s thrust vectoring.
also gaijin is known for testing overpowered missiles on underpowered planes, look at the A-10 and AIM-9L
I really want other people’s takes on this, please share!
It would still be a great way to experiment with how long range/supermaneuverable, next gen IR missiles will handle in the games top tier climate, especially with how unbalanced the PoBit is currently.
Unless there is a reliable counter to 9X (which there isn’t, outside of “just not be close bro”) it shouldn’t be added. But, that is if we want a balanced game. RIght now - i’d say every US 14.3 should get 9X just because it will be incredibly funny and finally might bring US back into it’s role of the most hand held tech tree in the entire game.
based on the 9X found on the claws, it can be defeated the same way as the 9M. Flare flower works just fine
I think it will be the opposite.
Its pretty obvious the meta rn is radar missiles and HOBS shots, where a short range IR missile will struggle in 100% of the time.
This will lead to US mains having to close the distance to get kills. Which in-turn will cause everyone to keep distance and run away from US planes nullifying their only advantage.
Since pretty much all toptier US jets are slow it wont be difficult to do
PoBIT isn’t the only one that needs AIM-9X…
also it’s a F-16, what did u expect? it’s made for dogfighting, which almost never happens at toptier, and u can still manage to win against a Typhoon if u’re smart and exploit the advantages of the F-16.
Su-30SM is far from being better than Eurofighter at dogfighting, it literally uses the engines of the original Su-27 which SUCK, even Su-27SM is way better than the Su-30SM.
