Similar to most other 13.0 Planes who dont carry any ARH this aircraft in my opinion suffers from having to constantly be on the defence and with the addition of more and more 13.0 or 13.3 Aircraft who carry 4x ARH and atleast 2x IR the F-2A ADTW just falls behind. Even if the Dogfight performance ist beyond any Aircraft at its own rating or slightly higher its very Situational, the Aim-7Ms being a false hope when paired with its on paper great radar wich loses lock when the enemy decides to go anywhere from 30°-60° away from you and your Aim-7M decides its time has come to go to heaven. It has a solid ammount of countermeasures wich makes any cqc fight easy aswell. But just 0.3 BRs higher we have the Su-30s Airframes of 14.3 with missile loadouts of 13.7 HMD kinda whack radar but since you dont have to hold lock it doesnt matter and do to the ammount of the Flanker Spam its hard to find a match that is 12.0 or anywhere in the 12.3 area where its not a single F/A-18C early against 7 or 8 Su-30s. In the End the F-2A ADTW is fine the closer you get to your enemy and worse the further away and this makes the Aircraft in the current meta just hell to play
That’s not how the radar works and I’m sure if you insist to say it does work like this, that you wouldn’t be able to give video evidence or a replay showing it happening. You’re just getting notched. 90 degrees.
Here’s my problem with these types of complaint posts: You complain you suffer badly in uptiers and that jets above you compress your jet’s performance. That’s true, however you also say you wish you could be the exact same upwards compressive force to 12.0 jets. You are just as strong to a 12.0 jet as the Su-30 is to you. So you want to make somebody elses’ game not fun in exchange for yours being fun. You need to advocate for decompression so everybody can have fun
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