Then don’t take the radar missiles, and instead bring R-27Ts if it’s that big of an issue, or as you so generously pointed out for the F-15, maybe its just a skill issue.
(Now THIS, this may truly be a skill issue, because as I have already pointed out, the 12.7 USSR Mig-29 has 15 million spawns, 52.4% win rate, 1.18 K/D)
Not wanting a 4th gen with IRCCM missiles at 12.7 doesn’t mean I have a skill issue.
With R-73s and R-27ERs, they would absolutely be 13.0 worthy. With just R-27Rs, I think they would fit into a weird place where they are much to weak for 13.0, and maybe to good for 12.7.
Nope, there are literally worse 13.0 vehicles, just said that using all times states is meaningless, literally the japanese one had better stats than all of the migs
Totally besides the F-15 argument, but that is a convenient approach.
Some people here would get easily triggered if we check the all-time stats of, for instance, the South African Gripen C and how broken it was when it fought 13.0s prior to the fox-3 meta, so much that it still carries a good historical KpD, still a whole tenth above its most recent performance.
Do brit mains got worse? Or was the vehicle actually broken compared to its peers? I prefer to believe the latter.