sraams are likely that way more due to balance than gaijin not wanting to, the aircraft that carry them are already mediocre airframes at there respective brs, increasing the range of the sraam would make the already pretty strong missiles probably some of the best at the br range forcing the two planes to go up in br, this would make them pretty much unplayable as they will be put in a matchmaker where they will: struggle to catch anything, not have the flight performance to keep up with the other planes, and neither have flares.
also those time frames are not exactly uncommon when it comes to these things you can find accepted reports dating back years for every other nation too, not something unique to the brit tree
would create a mess for balancing stuff like Hunter F.6.
and it took me 3 years to got CCIP+Radar on Etendard IVM using a Pilot Manual and a Detailed scheme of aircraft,… so Gaijin really just don’t work unless they have confidence in reports,… (as such @DirectSupport makes a great job).
Not really. France has a Hunter F6 at 9.3 (9.0 in SB) and the Hunter FGA9 is 9.3 (in RB at least) and the Harrier Gr1 has no CMs at the same BR as the AV-8S and AV-8A with 240 CMs.
Neither aircraft are overly special and underperfroming quite a lot at their current BRs. Increasing the range from 800m to 1.6km is hardly game breakingly OP. Now giving them their historical all-aspect ability. that would be an issue, but the range? Nope.
R77-1 really are a ;middle ground between aim 120 and mica. great range and great offbore capabilities. Can’t be used the same way as the mica in very close dogfights, but in most engagements its just as good in close range (unless in 1 circle dogfights but then there’s the r73)
No, it can be and is pulls nice amount of G and can be used in close range along with the R-73.
Difference is the Typhoon cannot avoid it at those ranges :(
Sorry for the low quality, I had to downscale to post this :), I have to agree with you, these R-77’s can pull some insane turns (not like micas ofc) and hit, like it hit the poor gripen in this video haha.
(My bad if you guys might consider this off topic, I just wanted to contribute to Vizender’s argument)
In ground battles so that’s with ground attack munitions.
The Su-30 can beat it close range and Typhoon doesn’t have HOBs or Missiles that can pull more than 20G
Exactly and nice flying!..Makes it very hard for the Gripen and Typhoon as they only have 9Ms that don’t pull very well and 120s that are poor within 5km :(
it is trivially easy to beat an su30 in a dogfight with a ef or gripen, infact its trivially easy to beat anything in a dogfight with the ef, take like 5 minutes to learn the weaknesses of whatever your fighting and it becomes a guaranteed win for you.
I don’t need to watch a video to know what they can do. If I felt they were a problem in a dogfight I’d mention it but they are not. Considering most merges are starting at Mach 1 plus as all anyone ever does is cut tree tops at Mach Jesus. if you aren’t air braking and getting your speed down to pull in harder and start turning in on them in the 1st circle idk what to say. Because that’s how I’ve been dealing with fighting them and well it’s working very very well. And you can comfortably sit on the tail of them for the rest of the fight unless you make some absolutely silly move.