Typhoon, Rafale, Su-34, F-15E, F-16C, Gripen. All have fairly equal flight model effeciency in game but the only one without FnF AGMs is the Typhoon.
Brimstone 1s on a 1 to 1 basis is by far the weakest AGM equipped to any aircraft at top tier.
The main advantage of the Brimstone is quantity. This is mitigated by SAL only as you can only engage 1 target at time. (the same way the F-15Es 28? GBU-39s are mitigated by being GPS only)
Typhoons never used Brimstone 1s
Typhoon should recieve historically accurate Brimstone 2s that can remain SAL only for now due to the quantity advantage. Brimstone 2s would lever the playing field in terms of raw missile performance and give the Typhoon an AGM that might actually be able to outrange most top tier SPAA like the KH-38 or AASM can.
if mmW cant be added for years though, then IR placeholder seeker should be considered, because Brimstone nerfs in ground modes is one thing, but the fact they are essentially removed from ever being worth equipping in air modes like Sim is another entirely.
So it needs to massively outrange every single Western SPAA in the game and thus Rain Fire from the Heavens because it’s not a good CAP platform while other jets, that are actually good at CAP, could’ve been simply not given anything better than LGBs while having to battle the Pantsir?
What in the God’s loving care are you even talking about.
Your idea of balance is to simply make the Su-34 the only jet that can be oppressive towards ground players, good thing YOU aren’t in charge of balance.
SPAAs are useless against the jets we have in the game at the moment.
Pantsir isn’t a 15km globe of death.
Su-34 has to have best A2G missiles as it sucks in everything else.
Others getting in line in terms of A2G capability would mean Su-34 is suffering as it would have literally nothing going for it.
All jets are oppressive to ground units as CAP is their only real counter.
Top tier AAs are useless.
Again, Pantsir isn’t a 15km globe of death.
I never said never.
Western jets definitely didn’t need IRs as they are massively better in all categories expect that one when compared to the only plane that should be able to sling IRs.
There’s a big difference.
Only one plane in there would be lacking greatly in A2A combat and thus wouldn’t be balanced.
Thinking Pantsir is effective against current jets.
Well it has similar sort of Seeker to IRIS-T but does not have TVC and relies on its lift body and fins to pull so it will have more range then AIM-9M and IRIS-T but won’t pull as much as IRIS-T
Yes, I want them to have the best A2G as they suck in literally everything else. That’s how a pro/con system should work, but some still can’t comprehend such a basic system.
We’re talking about a hypothetical IR F&F Brimstone (basically smaller Maverick Ds) and the jets being limited to carrying just six of them (i.e basically the same amount as Rafale gets of Hammers and F-16s get of Mavericks).
