Thing is, you are only concentrating on top tier. The rafale being an excellent plane doesn’t mean that France can’t get anything in their air tree. Not everyone plays constant top tier. France has add SPAA holes at the 7.0 BR range for years, where their tank don’t have roof mounted MG either. Many options are available at that BR.
And again, a plane being added 1+ year ago doesn’t justify adding only 1 copy paste of this exact plane in the span of 2 updates.
The jaguar, while a big hype vehicle for me, was also nothing special in term of the game. Especially since it’s lacking about half of its features, some that are even actually in game mechanics (such as the MAW found on other vehicles).
As of now, BUK still remains better than the SAMPT, with the ability to fire from its TEL without a radar, having better range than the aster 30, and is seldom used because the pantsir remains more reliable than all ARH type SPAA simply because it doesn’t suffer from multipath. The future pantsir that is going to be added is going to get even better since it’s new missile won’t have its proxy fuse deactivated by flying low to the ground.
I’m sorry, but 4 boats (a game mode that attracts less than 1% of the player base) and a copy paste plane just doesn’t cut it when it comes to 2 major updates additions. I don’t even think Japan goat that bad of a treatment at its worst
I get the NASAMs, but how is the SAMP/T better than Buk? Buk missile has lower fov, J-band, 75km seeker lock range, much bigger warhead, TEL provides tracking which provides it greater update, and the missile itself is performing horribly compared to other top tiers. Thanks to @legocubed for this graph
Mind you, the Aster-30 is the worst performing missile out of all top tiers compared to IRL performance. It is just very underwhelming how much of its performance it is missing.
Idk if it’s on the same level, Aster 30 is missing 1/3 of it’s range and the time to reach a target according to italian docs was not fixed last i remember + the maneuverability lacking.
I feel like the current tab to create loadouts is the complete bare minimum. They should add a tab (either in game or in hangars), with much more customization, for the fuel, countermeasures size and type, default systems (MAW, radar)…