Hunter f1 is at such a br where it constantly faces missiles along with all aspect ones while having no flares, no missiles themselves, and no option to equip any air to ground ordnance. Not only that, it isn’t even competetive compared to the rest of 9.0 planes.
Aim-9B in 9.0 is crazy 💀.
The CL-13B Mk.6 in question:
Hunter F.1 is effectively a pre-production prototype at the same br as the penultimate flight models and also lacking missiles.
It needs to go down and also a British standard Hunter F.6 needs to be added, without missiles
Alternatively the P.1109B would be the perfect addition, lacking 2 of the Adens and being heavier but having 2 firestreaks which one could just about argue to be an upgrade over the 9B.
Not the point.
Ignoring missiles, the F6 has a much better engine to that of the F1 and yet they are the same BR. When you add the fact the F1 has no AAMs and the F6 has 2x Aim-9Bs. It just gets worse.
Britain’s F6 has been over-BRed for quite a while now and if 2x Aim-9Bs can be 9.0 then 4x SRAAM should only be 9.3 at most.
Not too mention the BR of the Hunter FGA9 with 2x Aim-9E could also be 9.0 based upon the Belgium Hunter F6 and then of course the Hunter F1 should probably be 8.7 (should have gone down with the other korean war era aircraft like the F-86 and Mig-19)
Don’t forget the F.6 has redesigned controls and dogtooth also.
Dont forget the J34 on sweden it has just a small amount of extra power to the engine and aim 9bs at 9.0 so where should that be placed if the FGA.9 is 9.0?
the hunters are a whole BR higher than they should be, no countermeasures, either no missile or just SRAAMs and facing supersonics. its pain
The only hunter that is at a good BR is the Hunter F.58.
But I agree that the others should be slightly lower in BR (maybe by 0.3).
the new one in the french tree is lower than the F6 in the British tree and gets better missiles
f111:
I strongly agree that the hunter f1 should go down to 8.7. The F2 sabre, mig17 and cl13 went down to 8.7 and the Cl13 is arguably better than the hunter f1 at litterly everything except fire power. Then you have the new french hunter at 9.0 with a more powerful engine and two missiles??? Not to mention how the CL13m6 is now 9.0 which is better than the cl13m5 and the cl13mk5 is better than the hunter f1 but lower br. This just shows how gaijin base their BRs purely on stats and not performence, not enough people play the hunter f1 so gaijin dont have enough statistics to lower it to 8.7.