right now the f15a performance (brick) is more comparable to an f15e with cfts, so might as well go all the way
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I do agree with you on it should come in the game ( its really a beautiful plane and i need to start grinding russia so i can play it lol ) but we should have got the mig 25 first i think as the f-15 was the answer to that, and then the first patch of next year the su-27 making a grand entrance. ( side note, loving these trailers they have been putting out ) Would be fun to fly mach 3 around the field annoying people lol
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mig 25 would actually be terrible lmao it was not designed to kill fighters
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You can’t use that BS excuse of: my missiles don’t work but yours do. It really comes down to pilot skill at the end of the day. I see Russian players spamming their R-73s and R-27Ts at an enemies giving them terrible launches, they miss, and then they complain that their missiles are actually trash in the game. Then for your excuse of R-27ER, “well everyone hugs the deck so radar missiles are useless” yet completely ignore the fact that we are comparing missiles, not how they will function in game. An R-27R will always beat a Aim-7M let alone an R-27ER, not to mention the R-27R variants have the INS so if they lose lock you can still reacquire the lock on the target without the missile exploding after 2 seconds. This is in no way an argument for Fox 3 missiles on the F-15 as we really don’t need the Aim-120 anytime soon but it would be nice to at least have something like the Aim-7MH or 7P to counter the Bullshittery that is the Su-27 loadout. The only point I’ll give you is that the smokeless motor on the Aim-9M is BS OP in SIM but no one plays really focuses on SIM so this really comes down to Air RB.
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The AIM-54 wasnt designed to kill fighters but here we are lol. It could do hit and runs.
I find it strange that they left out the MiG-25, which could be more comparable to the F-15A, but apparently Gaijin has reasons for that…
Bro, the F-15 was made to surpass the MiG-25 in every capability, they’re not comparable at all. MiG-25 can’t turn, doesn’t have a look down radar, doesn’t have a gun. What it has is a high maximum speed and long range missiles designed to hit bombers. If and when the MiG-25 comes to the game it will be like 11.0 at most.
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at least the platform that carries it isnt complete and utter shit lol. the mig 25 would have no place with the f15. russia mains would whine and whine until it got the r37 or something
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probably 10.0 lets be real
Except the MiG-25 doesn’t have Fox-3 missiles, no Pulse Doppler radar, half the hardpoints, no gun and can’t turn.
su 27 is fine but it would be much better to get a 1986 f15c or something to compete with it
Funny the last update was exactly the opposite with the F16’s all over…
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Well when you damage the russian mains easy win button they get worked up.
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not even true lmao the f16 is balanced as it is. mig 29g is balanced. smt sucks performance wise but missile wise is balanced. tomcat is the tomcat
and boths win rates are getting fucked by premium players so thats balanced too
As I stated before I play both F-16C and Mig-29G and honestly it is quite balanced mashup. You’d know that if you’d play both machines. The F-16C is only “insanely OP” in the eyes of a russian main, and vice versa with Mig-29 and american main. These 2 planes are as close as a Mig-15 and F-86 back in Korea days. You just have to fight to your strenghts.
Even a year ago, when F-16A came with the Mig-29A it was balanced.
But F-15A and Su-27? Su-27 has all the strenghts and F-15A has all the weaknesses. It is not balanced at all.
2 pilots of equal skill go 1v1. One in F-15A, the other in Su-27. If the Su-27 even lets the Eagle come in close, the Flanker then beats it in one circle and two circle dogfight (assuming the wings don’t fall off by the time BVR is over). There is just no way for the current devserver Eagle to win. Period. Eagle is not a counter, its a punching bag. Period.
Overall, I think Gaijin is making a big mess of it by having too much choice of weapon systems…
The problem and peculiarity here in the game is in the weapons…
Another thing is the maps, but here on the high tier, they could already be adjusted, changeable weather would be enough, maps with variable airports and bases, and here, on the high tier, the red markers could already be removed, the blue ones would remain …
There are easy-to-remember maps and almost constantly nice weather, and to top it all off the simulator, those tell-all markers…
I would see it this way…
F-15A vs. Su-27A
F-15C vs. Su-27P
F-15E vs. Su-27SM
And to a specific type, assigned specific types of cruise missiles used …
Various inter-types, assigned to other nations, where they were shipped for export…
Otherwise, it’s a hell of a ball of different planes, with different abilities and with different options…
Yes, you’re right…
But if it had 4x R-60 + 2x R40, that could be an interesting premium…
Gaijin already surprised me…
Even last year, it was an unwritten rule that he would only add planes that could be used in all game modes…
Suddenly aerial supremacy – wow !
So we’ll see where it goes next…
If the MiG-25 came, then the same procedure as for the F-104 …
Prohibition of horizontal turns and only BaZ in the vertical, or BaR…
Of couse is “balanced”. When it can defeat any other jet in a dogfight without any effort, so you need to use another f16 to counter an f16, mmm yep yep balanced, I see your point
Have you played those airplanes, really? There’s no way you can say that and you’ve played them. any F16 can defeat (today) easily any Mig29, how can you say is balanced?. For the r27er I supposed, because of the flight performance I already tell you no, literally the f16 can pull way more than any Mig29 and retain way more energy
I won’t be soaring high Gaijin, no thank you.