Hunter F58 should be 10.3 BR

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I think the Swiss (German Tree) Hunter F.58 should be 10.3 to be in line with other planes of similar configuration.

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The armament of the Hunter, combined with its flight performance, makes 10.0 BR too low.

Planes such as Mirage 5/3 series, are 10.0 with Aim-9J and no flares, but with flares, it goes up to 10.3

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There is not a single plane that is 10.0 with flares, a good flight performance, and 2x Aim-9P.

In fact, the Hunter has better flight performance than the Mirage III. How? While MIrage III has a higher top speed, without flares, it has to rely on manuvering to dodge missiles (especially fired directly from the rear). The performance of Hunter makes it better suited for the rear aspect missile fighting, because it doesn’t bleed all energy in one turn like these Delta Wing planes, meaning it can retain speeed where as Mirage III cannot.

60 flares, is truly the envy of some higher BR planes, such as the J-35XS, Kfir, JA37, F-5E, F-111, F-20A, Su-33, F-16, MiG-23M(F). Although, 60 flares is pretty standard for other planes.

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2/10 ragebait

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You are comparing subsonics with supersonics again.

Hunter F58 is correctly BRed at 10.0, given that at 9.7 you are flareless equivalent such as the Hunter F6. But you have many subsonics at 9.7 with flares such as the Harriers (2 of which have 4x the CM count of the F58) heck you even have things at 9.3 like the Buc S2 with 104 large calibre CMs

Supersonics are weaker in some respect to subsonics because they are so much faster and can dictate fights

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Please use the existing BR change thread instead. Thanks

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