Honestly feel like 9.7 will wreck the F-106A. With no CMs and 9.7 MM being absolute horse feces due to 10.7 MM being filled with Premium slop, it’ll just turn it into an F-104 with bigger wings. Before it moves to 9.7 it should either get a buff to its flight model, or a buff to its missiles, or get the capacity to carry two AIM-26 Super Falcons like it was tested with.
the A-10A early with 9Ls is at 10.3 only because people keep insisting that dedicated ground attackers need to be good in A2A role. Its definetively not “fine”, lmao.
doubt.
it looks like pretty standard mirage.
T-2 does not have all aspect missiles.
If you are being intercepted by T-2s or similar aircraft, adjust your tactics to where you’re nose on to them during or escaping your bombing runs.
There is more to bombing than zombing to a base. Path making for secure routes is a large part of bombing, and why jet bombers are at the BRs they are.
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Unfortunately matches rarely go on long enough for bases to respawn at 9.7, so if you don’t “rush” a base, you lose out on the base points and are relegated to ground pounding or fighting other players.
This is even moreso now that the Yak-28B is at 9.0 and the Su-7s made their way to 9.0 which’ll make base bombing for even 8.3 jets an absolutely terrible experience.
This was my experience while grinding out the Canberras.
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What premiums are spammed at 10.7? Closest thing i can think of are the A-10s and maybe the A-5Cs.
Also problem with full uptiers isnt unique to the F-106.
If you’re having issues with players not having skill to survive longer, learn survival tactics and share them with your friends that play, and have them share those tactics with their friends.
Also bombers are being overtly targeted because of the Battlepass challenge. The Battlepass warned you of the time frame to not play bombers unless you want to be targeted.
And one more thing - Milan is not primary bomber or ground attacker, its main role in game is fighter.
A-10s, Su-25ks, A-5Cs, J-7Ds, F-5C, J35XS, the new NF-5A are all that I have encountered while playing my British Hunter F.6 before the F-106A event, and almost constantly too. Not a fun at all experience in the Hunter F.6 and that thing can retain energy pretty well in a turn unlike the F-106A. I’ll agree to the F-106A going up in BR if they bring its performance up to historically correct stats and a better flight model. Which’ll never happen so once it goes to 9.7 I’ll just have a fancy new hangar queen because if I wanted to play an F-104 I would play one.
Not much I can do about teams at 9.3/9.7 not wanting to live long. I played the Canberra before the new Battlepass missions, and the experience, again, was awful. Especially in an uptier. I had like 10 matches out of 40 where I could double bomb a base. I play the Canberra with guns so I usually just dogfight in it. It’ll be even worse now that the supersonic bombers from Russia went down in BR.
sure, that must means F-15E is terrible in A2A role, right? since its classified as strike aircraft.
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again, problem of full uptiers isnt unique to the F-106. Rarely vehicle is balanced around what it can see in uptier.
Or, if you want to insist that uptiers do need to be taken into account, you must logically take downtiers into account too.
What are downtiers at 9.7? I would take them into account if I got these mythical downtiers lmao
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Great, we’re talking about apples and oranges. I’m not talking about what it’s good at, but what its primary role in the game is supposed to be.
Im talking about ingame classification being literally useless. F-15E is classified as strike aircraft but its mostly played in A2A role. Milan has kit built around groundstrikes (CCIP, AS-30 Nord, various assortments of bombs and rockets) and should be balanced around that, not because someone classified it as fighter.
F-106A on the other hand has kit built around A2A role, with no groundstrike capability whatsoever.
They fulfill different roles. Milan is worse in A2A role, F-106A is worse in A2G role.
The aircraft’s classification determines its primary role and game balance; the fact that players often fly the F-15E in an A2A role doesn’t change the fact that it is optimized for A2G.
The Milan is primarily an air-to-air fighter, and its battle rating should reflect that, just as the F-15E is optimized for A2G even if players often fly it in an A2A role.
aircrafts classification is borderline useless. balance is determined by its kit.
even the wiki disagrees with you.
specialised in tactical support, modified with Jaguar, a strike aircraft, weapon systems.
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Standard issue with every jet bomber at such BR,…
Most of you guys doesn’t even turn to avoid anything when loaded with bombs,… despites ennemy missiles being worse in any point,…
But going the same as you do : shouldn’t the MIRAGE 5F (and not 2000-5F) be at the same BR as Milan does? because at 10.0, the Mirage 5F is overall a worse airframe than Milan, and despite having Magic-1, it doesn’t have flares/chaff as the Milan does.
Milan turns better than Mirage 5F
Ect.Ect.Ect.
What i see in this particular thread is about complainning about the Milan, for the wrong things:
Milan is based on Mirage
and both are Ground attack variants. (Swiss at the time used F-5E Tiger II as air-air fighter, French used Mirage III’s then Mirage F.1’s)
Gaijin suck at getting aircraft designation right
Its a naval fighter, Who’s primary role was defending the fleet, especially from high alt shadowers and not really inteded to be performing all that much ground attack.
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F-5C is the main problem maker at 10.7
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oh f, my bad lol.
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Doesn’t FRS stand for Fighter, Recon, Strike? Just a guess, I’ve never looked into these British designations