While this isn’t a major complaint, I don’t see why this aircraft is at 12.3 in air RB with only four IRCCM lacking IR missiles and an awkwardly placed 23mm. It has nothing else going for it besides a lot of thrust and adequate countermeasures. This thing is forced to play as a rat fighter with the body of a fat strike aircraft.
While that wouldn’t change much at 12.0, it would get easier matchmaking and would never have to see 13.3 aircraft. I don’t see this as equal to the F-16 and the early Hornet. At least the Kurnass 2k has 4 more Python 3’s, this thing is just stuck with 2 PL-5C’s and 2 Python’s.
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IRCCM on supersonic airframes of 17.5 deg/sec sustained turn rates are at 13.0 currently.
It’s a very fragile frame but you access early to active radar homing missile, a donwtier is a advantage with.
When people realized that F5(THAI) now is 11.3 and also has 2 Python 3… comparing to AIM9M/magic2/r73, Python 3 is like a better AIM9L,.
For JH7, sounds like has a powerful engine F5 without good guns
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Short answer, NO.
Another example of br decompression failure. 11.7 top IMO
Get even funnier when you see the GRB BR of this thing is 2 steps below your ARB BR :S
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Dare I say this… Isnt it a dedicated strike aircraft? Isnt this exactly how it should be performing?
The question is. How does it perform when compared to the Tornado Gr4 and Mirage 2000D-R1 as those are the closest contemporaries to it. I dont have much experience with or against Chinese aircraft. So I cant give an answer. But if you can answer that, then you might find an answer to why its 12.3.
But like those other 2, probably could be 12.0, but ultimately there is compression issues both above and below as well as ARB being badly made for anything meant to be mud moving.
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Nah totally, Personally I don’t have anything against the playstyle, and I’d always rather a vehicle be slightly weak vs too strong it ruins the bracket. It’s kinda hard to compare it to the Mirage 2K for me since I don’t have that myself but the missile kit seems a little stronger on the Mirage, only two, but they are Magic 2’s. Flight wise neither are great but it more seems like the usual Delta wing vs Standard, JH-7A probably has better thrust. As for the GR4, that get’s 9M’s which I’d say are a step above either, people just don’t know how to flare those at all. The downside being… you have to play the Tornado lmao
TL:DR If the JH-7A had radar missiles, it’d be better than both. The flight model wants to play like a Phantom but can’t, and the missile kit is flat-out worse than the others. They’re super easy to flare, and its nose authority is… rough