MiG-23 is overall not that good now. However Su-25K prints SL and RP and can also bomb bases.
F-4JUNK can bomb bases but that’s about all it can do. If you are set on bombing get it but otherwise I feel like the MiG-21 Bison is better.
EJ Kai is overall a better plane so I would talisman that if you have it. If you are willing to do air combat instead of bombing bases F-5E FCU (squadron vehicle) is one of the most busted planes in the game right now. ADTW is underwhelming and I would recommend against it.
Mirage F1C-200 has 2 Magic 2s which are basically free kills at this BR if you know to position yourself. As for bombing it’s not that great since most other bombers are faster than it and will beat you to the bases.
J-35XS can’t bomb. It’s an overall sad plane. Premium Viggen isn’t much better either to be honest. Grinding Sweden is pain overall. I am not sure what to recommend here.
I haven’t tried bombing in the Mirage 3/5 so I can’t say how good it would perform there and the Kfir Canard gets a much worse missile to the Mirage 3E (which I have played) it’s hard for me to project how good it is. But since it’s the only Israeli premium you can’t really go wrong with it.
Need a bit of cold blood but you can easily bomb one base and get one kill with its missiles.
Only F-104S are faster than you in the base bombing, as it normally gets only 11.3. So its pretty much 1 base garanteed, if you get the correct loadout.
It turns like a Dorito but its enginer is unholy, the Mirage airframe barelly handles the engine power.
It is a delicious premium and its my favorite plane to play at me moment. Also, its the only decent option in the Israely tech tree.
Just have in mind that tomorrow start the Kafir event, which you can get a different variant for free. So if you are not planing to grind the Baraks or F-15 and just want high tier plane to use amongst tanks, I would recommend just do the event one. (because its free)
All Phantoms are excellent base bombers; and I do as you do; after base-bombing, I still go to the fight with missiles, and the Phantoms are great in that sense too! They can carry a large array of air to air weapons AND base bombing ones without sacrifices.
So I would recommend to either purchase a Phantom or Talisman one (if available), depends on which tree you may like to grind.
For USA in particular, I’d opt to Talisman the F-4E over the F-4J or purchasing the F-4S.
F-4S @ 12.0 faces constant up tiers against some ARH slingers you don’t want to see, I have never flown the F-4J, but it has the same BR as the F-4S and would face those same up tiers. In my opinion, @ 11.3 the F-4E is very capable for grinding. You won’t get the same SL output as a premium, but you have already stated that isn’t a problem, so that’s the route I personally would go.
The AV-8C works very well, it’s got great guns, pretty fast, great missiles, although it can only get one base using incendiaries. I’m pretty sure the AV-8A (the premium pack version) is identical in most regards.
It is a nice plane with good missiles for 9.3/9.7, a complete package with flares, high acceleration and speed (for a subsonic), bomb load and good missiles (for clubbing non flare planes)
Unfortunately it’s not rank 7
So far to grind the remainder of the F-4F ICE (just got done with that) and EF-2000 I have been using a talismanned F-4F late, with a specific loadout of 6x 1000lb bombs and 4x Aim-9J while running approx 24 mins of fuel, this guarantees that I can beat everything besides F-104 TAF players to the base, while still remaining a capable dogfighter (low fuel phantoms should not be slept on) and enough gas left to re-arm for a second base run if you’re lucky.
Moving onto base bombing as a whole at the 10.0-12.0 BR range, it’s important not too be overzealous with your payloads, on paper bringing enough bombs to wipe 2 bases seems like an incredibly good deal but in practice you will always lag behind even the slowest supersonic base bombers (like A-5C) and will end up getting none at all on a normal RB map, or possibly 1 on an EC map, then comes fuel, it’s safe to bring between 60 and 85% of fuel (entirely dependent on fuel efficiency) for a single base + some dogfighting/furball trouncing later into the match, if you bring too little then you either have to sacrifice yourself in a headon or limp back to base without burner, posing for an easy target for opportunistic Draken/Mig-21/Phantom players to pounce on.
Moral of the story for efficient grinding is consistency and modesty, the more playtime invested into those two will result in rapid and high results, hope this helped :)
All you can hope for is that the average zomber evolves to fight after they drop their bombs, instead of just throwing their life away once they drop their bombs
Yea bombing in Higher Tier matches is hard as over half the team is going for bases to get to top tier, and you can extend the match like in props by flying high and out of the way and wait for base re spawn as you will be hunted down and killed
They really need to redo maps for rank 5 and up for Air Rb
I mean there is literally no reason that there can’t be a base per player on the team, whether they bomb it or not is player preference but there should never be teamkilling over a base lmao, nothing warrants it tbh
Given the unrealistic RP costs and frankly ridiculous time to grind tech trees for the average player, bomb grinding is a necessary evil until Air RB is reworked to allow for more versatility towards strike aircraft and slower aircraft, currently it’s not viable to play as a pure fighter is you are concerned about efficiency so if you are willing to hamstring your own grind to benefit a team doing exactly the thing you aren’t, then you have entered a paradox of lesser RP rewards and still ending up with the same shitty teammates
If everyone could pick their favourite plane and grind with that then the game would be a happier place but the way gaijin has set up the monetisation promotes bomb grinding (eg, most premiums releasing now for rank 5 and up are focused on strike/bombing roles like the Tornado WTD 61 or AV-8B NA) and multirole aircraft, so unless you are in a competitive fighter at that BR, you are simply missing out on valuable RP by not carrying a single base’s worth of bombs
Right. Also, the existence of modern(ish) missiles make pure flight performance not as important, and the fact that modern(ish) jets have powerful engines enough that carrying bombs doesn’t hamper the airframe much, means bombing is viable.
