Fine by me, fighters carrying bombs in Air RB shouldn’t even be a thing.
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You must be joking, play some games in these planes and tell me they are equivalent, balancing a fighter on its bomb load is hysterical.
They wouldn’t need the bombs if they were viable fighters.
F-104 isn’t a fighter. F-104S a bomber-interceptor if you want to get specific.
And if you want to try using it outside its role, you’re more than welcome to.
Cause otherwise you can argue B-29 should be BR 2.0 because it doesn’t do fighting other planes well…
Literally every jet is balanced on its air to air capabilities, using a ww2 bomber as an example to disprove that is dumb. You are literally one step away from wanting historical br’s. The f-104s in their current state are just not fun to play, so they need changes.
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It’s fighter-bomber or fighter-interceptor depending on configuration (Cacciabombardiere Ognitempo CBO or Cacciaintercettore Ognitempo CIO), in WT they are merged in one.
Kfir, F-104S, Mirage 5, etc aren’t balanced on their anti-air capabilities.
4 all aspect 40g missiles at 11.3 lol, and the mirage gets amraams on a decent airframe, the F-104 is the only plane balanced like that what are you talking about?
The Kfir has 2 missiles at 11.0, and 2 missiles on the C2 which is 11.7.
The Mirage has 2 missiles at 10.0/10.3. Magic 1s and AIM-9Js.
F-104S is also balanced on its fighter bomber performance.
Magic 1s at 10.0 are busted 35g against mostly flareless jets, the kfir is actually a good airframe for dogfighting so its missiles being lacking is a complete non issue, also the 11.7 has python 3s what are you talking about, the f-104 has bad missiles and a bad airframe if you want radar missiles you cant take a gun, on all the variants that have them, the radar on the F-104S is also borderline useless, good luck locking on to anything further than 4 kilometres below 2000m, you are actually coping if you think the kfir’s are overbr’d also also neither of those are tech tree vehicles so you don’t have to grind through them even if they were bad.
Magic 1s on Saggitario 2 would be busted.
Magic 1s on a strike aircraft that barely beats F-104s in a dogfight is not busted.
F-100D easily beats Mirage 5s.
ok?
It is because it is at 10.0? Which is a whole br below the 11.0 F104 with the same number of worse missiles.
Sorry but that’s a skill issue, mirage has better instantaneous with 35g missiles and the f100d has no flares.
Literally any supersonic airframe beats the f104 in a 1v1 by miles.