Careful, he might get all defensive and say it’s Russia that has the best stuff, because clearly the drag queen R-77-1s are comparable to the undisputed champ of BVR engagements.
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“MICA-EMs are AIM-120Bs with thrust vectoring, France is the most OP nation in-game, at least before the Su-30SM”
Dear god…
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This is certainly a take. MICA is significantly shorter range (~1/3 the effective range) with worse speed loss on account of implementation. But go off.
3/4th
In the absolute best case scenario, sure.
In every other situation? 1/3 is charitable.
No, its about 3/4th’s the range of the AMRAAM, which can vary a bit. However it is never 1/3rd.
Sure, bud.
Dude, even the R-24R is better than the AIM-7 in almost every way—it has better dynamics and speed, ignores chaff less often, and actually has a decent guidance system
And the MiG-23 itself is way faster than the Hornet you can just outrun it by flying below 60 meters. Why are you so scared of a fat F-5 with SARH missiles anyway?
Because it has vastly superior flight performance, missile count, radar, and RWR. And there’s no way it’s a fat F-5, because it seems to be fairly manoeuvrable.
Just because something is faster, doesn’t mean the airframe is better, look at the F-104s if you want an example.
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Applies to the overall balance in the game. For example, something like a MiG-15 will outperform a me262 in terms of flight performance—the same goes for the Hornet.
If the MiG-23 is at the top of the matchmaking list, it dominates; if it’s at the bottom, it suffer, similarly if the Hornet is at the top, it dominates, but at the bottom against 13.7 BR opponent it suffers due to its SARH missiles, which can’t accelerate beyond 2.5M against fox-3
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We are talking about air RB here, a2g has nothing to do with air RB except for zombers.
Lol. If notching and getting within 10km is considered highly skilled gameplay sure.
I have played EFT, Rafale and the F-15E, they are all pretty much equally strong.
none of these have nothing to do with topic of mig23 and f18 early
stop
18C early could go up a step to 13.0, but either decompression would need to happen or it would need to recieve AIM-9Ms.
Currently as it is, IMO its strong 12.7 plane, rather capable in downtier (then again which plane isnt better in downtier) but not quite 13.0 material.
Low top speed and only 60CMs do hinder it when compared to some other 13.0, and while AIM-7Ps are THE most accurate sparrows ive played, they are still Sparrows at their core and not in the same ballpark as R-27ERs.
And dogfighting bleeds a lot of speed, especially with cobra button engaged, making it exceptionaly vulnerable to getting smacked by R-73+HMS combos.
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Dogfighting takes more skill than flying in the stratosphere and spamming missiles. Therefore Rafale, Grippen, and Eurofighter requires more skill.
Do you think it’s healthy for the game that f16A and f18A in 12.3 kill 3 gen and f18C early in 12.7 also face 3 gen?
I’ve flown a lot of USA this last year because it was so OP, I literally swapped being a Russian main to USA main due to how unbalanced and OP the planes are.
Your argument is so bull and void, it doesn’t look at facts in the slightest…
What have you flown from either tech tree?
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Jesus…
I challenge you, get kill bvr 40+km with mica and send the replay here.
I don’t think it needs to be 40 km, 30 km is already valid.
Until today playing with Mirage 2000-5f, 2000Ei and Rafale I only got one kill 30km + of Mica, because the other guy was afk flying high at the end of the match.
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talking about mica
brings up magic 2 for some reason
lol???
rafale is objectly the best 14.0 and you still have not told me why it isn’t. micas have the best close range performance and only close range (10km) matters in top tier since long range shots from any missile are useless because they all just get notched the same. sorry to break it you but just because F-15E can kill the AI MiG-15 in test drive from a longer range doesn’t actually mean it will be the best in ARB where everyone who isn’t AFK will just notch/multipath to close the distance where the F-15E is completely outclassed and the rafale can just launch a mica from its seekers gimbal edge and safely return to a notch position instantly.
also rafale has the highest 14.0 KD and your “king of 14.0” is the lowest
mica carriers are also the best even in 13.7
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Can you tell me which website you used in the print? I found these statistics really cool.
I find it incredible how American vehicles can lag behind the same vehicle in another nation, as in the case of the f15I and F15E and f15C and F15J(m)
statshark. it has lots of things
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