Brah the Mig23MLD used to be 11.0 / 11.3 when that was max. It has literally never not been in the dominating cluster. It should be the one getting the pain BR bump like F4S according to your logic.
Maybe a window when there was 12.0 Mig29/F16 and F14A but it wasn’t actually getting that dommed by F16’s especially in the first F16 revision, mind you the MLD was even better back than as the FM was even more bogus in its ER (only fixed last year or so before ML sales iirc)
Blah blah blah, Russian bias, we get it, you’re bad at the game and everything needs a nerf.
Let’s keep the comments civil and get back on topic, shall we?
I love the F-104, they’re iconic and literally my favourite jet in the real world. Gaijin just likes to screw it over and everybody lets it happen because they only remember the feeling of F-104As railing their BR bracket. It’s minor nation syndrome for all the advanced starfighters. Same reason the Tornafo IDS is overtiered and especially the Sagittario 2, a 1950s subsonic that is even gapped by the Harrier GR1. It has a whopping two cannons and a very weak engine, zero missiles and zero flares while it faces Mig-21 MFs with R-60s and radar missiles, Drakens, aforementioned Harriers with SRAAMS, etc… but again, most players only remember the old 8.0 saggittario that was OP and since nobody cares about Italy it just gets overlooked as it’s slowly crept up to a ridiculous BR where you can catch literally nothing and can only outmanoeuvre an aim 9B, anything more agile or at close enough range and you’re literally defenceless. Same BR as the insanely fast and excellent F-104A. But US mains will cry that they never get the best version of a vehicle💀
Don’t trap yourself with bad arguments within 2 seconds and you wouldn’t have to give up like this.
F104’s had a decent period at one point where the German 104G was 10.3 and Italian 104S 10.7 or something, the other nation 104J/G or whatever with no flares / 2 missiles were also 10.3 lol., it’s like Gaijin weren’t even paying attention for 6 months.
And now it’s 11.0 RIP
I didn’t trap myself with a bad argument. You’re the one crying about Russian bias. Boo hoo, you got beat by a good fighter, it doesn’t need a need, it doesn’t need to go up in BR, you just need to stop being bad at the game.