The F20 is a good plane, the problem is that its br is 12.7, he constantly faces planes far superior to him in uptiers, If you fall, you play against F15s and Su27s in 13.0, you have the least chance of dealing against them, missiles with IRCM and more advanced radar missiles annihilate your chances of survival against these planes.
Against 13.0 with fox3, your chances are even worse, you have an extremely limited number of countermeasures, your only radar missile is an aim7F, you couldn’t deal with aim120/rb99/pl12 or derby, 2 of these missiles that you give noch + chaff, you have no countermeasuresany more.
13.3, it is rare to see these planes like jf17, su34 or mig29smt, but they kill you too, the only plane you can play against is the su34 in a dogfight if it doesn’t have missiles, otherwise you will be annihilated by these planes too.
13.7 It’s a desperate up tier to play with this plane, If 13.0 and 13.3 are already very complicated to deal with, you are free frag from someone in the match when you fall against 13.7.
Even the 12.7 planes are better than it, the Mirage 2000-C which will go up from BR to 12.7, has a superior loadout and flies better than it, F16 and MIG 29 are also superior.
Why is this plane 12.7?
An airplane with his flight performance, with aim7f and aim9l and 45 countermeasures, should be 12.3.
The mig21 bison has 2 missiles with irccm (r73E) and 2 r27R1 or T1 and is 12.3 with 60 countermeasures.
the f20 when compared to the mig21 bison it has inferior armament and less defensive capacity in exchange for better flight performance, but this flight performance does not justify it being 12.7.
This plane should be 12.3, it has a limited loadout when it carries the maximum number of fox1 missiles, having a total of 2 fox1 and 2fox2, it is a cool plane that would be worth its price if it were in BR… But he is currently overBR, this ends up ruining the plane, making it a terrible plane that will give you mediocre matchs.
I honestly don’t know what statistical data a gaijin uses to balance the br of this plane, as American planes are known for having extremely negative statistical data, and I have no idea what justification was used to leave this plane at 12.7, but here are my recommendations, don’t buy this plane because it’s not worth it, f4s, f5c and av8b(na) are much better options than the f20.
Pls gaijin fix the br of this plane, give it a fair br.
F-20 is superior to half the vehicles at 12.7, including both F-14As.
12.3 would probably be the best BR for it.
And the F-16A is going to 12.3, yet the F-20 stays at 12.7.
Although the F-20 can carry sparrows which are more useful than aim9L, I agree. It should be 12.3.
Its FM does about everything worse than the F-16 ADF and has less missiles, while carrying 2 sparrows. It would be fine at 12.3 and wouldn’t even be the best 12.3 currently. That place is for the arguably undertiered mirage 2000
Which is about to get moved to 12.7 (except the SC-4 which is seemingly staying at 12.3). Overall though, I agree with you.
Oh cool. I forgot that it was in the planned BR changes. It totally deserves it, I have a much better performance with it than the F-16A.
But the event mirage should go up too I think, IIRC the only difference is that it has fewer countermeasures. I don’t have a strong opinion on it though.
Why people want to buy into teams of base bombing F-4S is beyond me. Be thankful that when you do get uptiered in the F-20 you’re getting away from those teams.