From one flaring gatewidth irccm missiles launched from an aspect that would absolutely get to kill an f-5c on half throttle and flaring (it happened, su39) to simply having multiple radar missiles actively avoid striking it despite having a solid lock, to just having the UFO flight model that causes anything else that is not another gripen or an eurofighter to unavoidably crash.
The Gripen (14.0 performance at 13.0 for some reason), the JAS37DI (most 13.0s that possess AMRAAM have horrible flight models, the viggen has the best of them by a very long marging) and the normal Viggen (doppler radar at non doppler meta + viggen fm good) are too oppressive. Why do i say Gaijin babies Sweden? Well, their T-18B’s can dogfight 109s and reverse krebswagen of the nature of the xp-50:
We need a severe BR rework.
Edit: Holy moly, someone said the gripen is still op then every gripen main literally came here call me bad… sigh.
Gripen has lower TWR than euro and rafale (14.0), Gripen A has no fox3 and trash radar missiles and is fine if not bad at 13.0. The FM is good, yes, but not game-breaking good as it used to be. And you shouldn’t dogfight it in an su27 anyway, because Gripen destroys it. Gaijin isn’t babying sweden, if anything it’s been made worse by the new 14.0s. As for the T18, its probably a skill issue on their part.
AFAIK, JA37DI is one of the worst ARH carriers, which has SHAR FA.2 as its only worse counterpart.
Your video is aged for two and a half years old.
And XP-50 was infamous for two reasons in both ways.
They were shamelessly undertiered while maintaining air-spawn.
and their major skill issue which can be seen overall… which kept them undertiered for years.
Following bombers mindlessly, and get lit on fire on the engine and burnt to a crisp,
Or dive as fast as they can and grind grounds…
By the way, if Gaijin keeps babying Sweden. Why did they get the F-18C with no ground ordnance and fail to get AIM-120C when others got it?
Have you seen the amount of 12.7 noobs exist around 13.0 its easy, hell even in my Su-34 ive been clapping US noobs when put in 14.0 matches, not like its an achievement when 90% of people around 13.0 are level 6 noobs lol
Its F18 premium, JF-17, Su-33 ect ect noobs are plentiful here.
People refuse to learn their vehicles and just base bomb, the amount of hornets that try to base bomb or Su-33’s is sad
Arcade is a whole other story… gripen is great there. For rb, thats about above average for 13.0. It also depends on whether it’s an uptier or downtier.
Gripen A has no BVR missiles at all at a BR where their use its practically mandatory. It might be the best IR missile dogfighter of the BR, but that type of combat is not the meta at that BR.
BOL is massively artifically nerfed and in need of a MASSIVE buff to restore it to IRL performance. You can read about it here:
What defeated your missiles in the clip was probably large calibre flares it has internally, the exact same as on the aircraft you were flying.
Though that was a really bad shot to begin with.
Aim-9M is probably the weakest IRCCM at top tier most of the time, its exceptionally good in specific niche situations, but id rather have Magic II or R-73 at the moment. Aim-9M is in need of buffs, the main one being a buffed lock range
Viggen DI is actually below average for 13.0. It might have AMRAAM, and its FM is okay, but is has one of the weakest RWRs of that BR and has no IRCCM missiles. It’s radar isnt half bad either, but there are better radars. Tornado F3 Late and F-4F ICE for example, absolutely destroy the Viggen DI.
Viggen D is also fairly average performance for 12.0. Only really the Viggen C is good with 2x Skyflash DFs and a PD radar at 11.3.
Like the Gripen A/C as well, its massively impacted by the aforementioned artificial BOL nerfs that were applied 18 months ago.
Gripen C is not 14.0 worthy, it’s tenative whether its even 13.7 worthy at the moment. Gripen E is needed ASAP to keep Sweden in teh fight at top tier.
