Hello there, creating a topic here for an issue that has been bothering me for some time, and one I feel needs to receive a bit of attention and discussions to put it in the spotlight some more.
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France is the only nation in-game to have rank 7 aircraft without stock missiles
Why? Your guess is as good as mine. This issue first flew under the radar for me as it was at first only present on both Jaguar A and E, both of which were introduced before stock missiles became a thing. However, when the Super Etendard got added, I noticed it had no missiles stock, which lead me to go back and see that both Jaguars also only get missiles as a rank 4(!) modification, just like the SUE.
Logically I found this strange so I looked at every other rank 7 aircraft in the game only to discover that France is the only nation to have rank 7 jets without stock missiles (There is actually 1 exception, the Chinese Q-5L, but that only gets no stock missiles because it has no missiles at all).
So the question is why do these aircraft not get stock missiles, maybe there’s an explanation? However, every reason I could come up with already has other aircraft in-game that negate it. The AMX International being the best example giving its similar role, battle rating and weaponry. It too has only a pair of advanced missiles available to it (AIM-9L in this case) but it does get them stock. So neither the quantity of missiles nor the quality of missile should have any impact on whether or not it is given stock (the AIM-9L is arguably a better missile than the Magic 1 since it is an all-aspect missile).
So here’s my question to all of you, can you think of a reason why these specific aircraft have no stock missiles, and do you think it is justified that they lack them?
I seriously hope I’m just missing something here, because right now, this situation just does not make sense to me.