Title: Japanese 6.7 Cold War Jet with Top-Tier Rockets, German 262 at 7.0 Naked with Iron Bombs? Gaijin, Explain This!
Gaijin, let’s break this down and make it crystal clear today.
- A Time-Warping Battle Rating
In the new update, the Japanese air tree happily received the L-39ZA/ART at BR 6.7. Note: This is a jet trainer that first flew in the late 1960s, a genuine Cold War bird. Meanwhile, Germany’s pride, the Me 262 — which entered service in 1944 as the world’s first operational jet fighter — the A-1a and A-2a are still stuck at 7.0, motionless.
A 1960s Cold War aircraft sits at 6.7, facing Mustangs, Spitfires, and La-9s every day.
A 1944 WWII relic sits at 7.0, facing MiG-15s, Sabres, and early missiles every day.
This is like sending a Vietnam veteran to fight elementary school kids, while simultaneously sending a disabled WWII veteran to fight the Vietnam War. Even Einstein couldn’t understand this balancing logic.
- A Chasm of Firepower
Look at the loadouts, and it gets even more ridiculous.
The L-39ZA/ART at 6.7 carries the “Dampener” rockets — notoriously powerful in-game, with a high-explosive warhead, flat trajectory, and minimal drop. Paired with its onboard ballistic computer, ground pounding becomes a surgical strike, and in air combat, it can one-shot enemies like a lucky cannon. The 6.7 prop planes can’t even sniff its jet exhaust, and it’s already raining high-explosive death from above.
And what does our Me 262 at 7.0 get for ground attack? Iron bombs, pure and simple, only iron bombs. Even if you fly the few variants that can carry rockets (like the R4M), what do they fire? Trajectories curving like a parabola, dispersion so wide it’s like tracing an outline, you have to practically hug the tank to hit it, and for air targets, you rely entirely on the enemy flying into them. Taking these WWI-level faith-based weapons into 8.0 matches against missile-armed opponents is not combat — it’s a sacrifice.
- The Absurd Perfection of the Loop
Gaijin’s foot-stomped BRs have created a perfectly ironic balancing loop:
· A 6.7 plane with top-tier rockets, clubbing missile-less props, enjoying the thrill of seal clubbing.
· A 7.0 plane with only iron bombs and firecracker rockets, facing early Cold War jets with missiles, experiencing the humiliation of being a target.
So in Gaijin’s eyes, Japanese trainer pilots are elites, issued smart weapons to retire at 6.7; German veteran pilots are cannon fodder, only fit to fly naked antiques into 7.0 uptier rooms to die?
- A Reasonable Demand
The entire Me 262 family — A-1a, A-2a, C-1a, C-2b — should be dropped by a small BR increment.
· 7.0 to 6.7
· 7.3 to 7.0
· and so on
Let this WWII jet pioneer also have a chance to bully props with its crappy rockets, instead of being daily fodder for Cold War supersonics. If the L-39 at 6.7 is “balanced,” then the 262 at 6.7 is only natural — in fact, it might even get reverse-clubbed by prop aces because of those garbage rockets, making it perfectly balanced.
As always, unless Gaijin’s balance standard is based on nationality rather than performance. Upvote if you agree, let the devs see this absurd reality. 😤