F/A-18 ruined 11.7

mig23ml has 2 shitty missles on a shitty radar that cant lock anything at ground level.

1 R23 are actually not good missiles, at all, an aim7E-2 will get more done than an R23R , the R24R is a good missile but the ML and MLD radar sets are pretty poor.

Massive, massive skill issue mate, you really need to learn to play better before just stating random af stuff.

The F111F as well, when its got a load is actually quite slow, the mig23 if hes at a good angle to you then boom your down.

That plane is not good at all.

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Dude got shot down by an R23R mate flying in a straight line in a vark.

The missile is bad, pretty much an aim 7E equivalent, it just trade the better acceleration for pulling less, it still have the same issues with the autopilot as the regular E, where for the first 2.5s it doesnt turn at all and it has a much lower G limit of another 2.5s (just 8Gs for the r23)

Hornet is one of the most annoying planes to play against at this BR because of its mostly unique ability (for the BR) to fire sparrows at any aspect that isnt a notch. Meaning, they can often fire sparrows at you even when you are flying away from them in such a way that makes it difficult to avoid without forcing a merge or hugging the ground while flying away. The spam of the hornet combined with the previous fact means most of my gameplay near the hornet’s BR is multipathing to a degree I would not normally do even against fox3s.

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It also doesn’t help the aim7P is IOG so unlike the other sparrows they can actually break lock and go defensive and re lock.

Even the f18A shouldn’t be sitting at 12.3

F-18A is just plain undertiered and should be 12.7 as its analogous to the F-16ADF if not slightly better just because of how air RB is played currently

F-18C(E) should go to 13.0 and receive AIM-9Ms as compensation

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Well, it will be the same trash as the F-15A with sparrows against the FOX-3. That is, it will play against almost the top.

So decompress, but it doesn’t belong at 12.7

The F-15A has an AIM-9M and do you know how it plays at 13.0? No way, shooting someone down when everyone has a FOX-3 is almost impossible. At 13.0 there is no place for aircraft with AIM-7 and AIM-9.

Did you read

It’s fine, I play it pretty often. The game just needs more decompression.

Are you implying F-15 could be 12.7? It couldn’t be.

The most annoying plane in the game is the MiG-23ML, it is the most meager plane I have ever seen, it is unbalanced no matter what BR it is in. How much I suffered from it, first on the Phantom C, then on the F-4E and on the F-111F, the MiG-23ML is a plane that ruins your game. Because of this plane, I stopped playing the F-111F. Because wherever you fly, this MiG-23ML always appears and launches a missile at you that does not react to all your traps and speed.

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Absolutely right, the F-15A should be at 12.7.

Extremely unbalanced. Would just be 10x better than everything else at 12.7

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At 12.7 is the MiG-29, which has much better weapons and a better radar.

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no. R27ER is better than AIM7M but only in that on a 1:1 level if you fire a r27Er it is more likely to hit. The MiG29 only carries 2 radar missiles and has to fallback on R-60ms which are extremely poor for the BR when it is out of radar missiles. F-15 on the other hand doubles your radar missiles (sparrows are also just not that bad, people exaggerate how bad they are. if your r27er gets a kill the aim7 probably would too assuming a teammates missile doesnt get there first or something) and also has 4x AIM-9M to fall back on, which if used correctly are basically 4 kills on your wings.

The MiG-29’s radar is also just worse… like… idk how you even came up with that.

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The f15A even at 13.0 is still a fantastic plane what the christ sre you on about.

only better sarh

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No, no it should not.