I would settle for radar missiles, since the Phantom gets them at 10.3, MiG 21 SMT gets them at 10.3, Mirage IIIs get radars at 10.3, but no, the J-7D is pure rear aspects. Hell, that’s all China is at Rank VIII: rear aspects. The J-8 is rear aspects with the Apsides, but that’s it (and you don’t even get to use the radars until you nearly spaded it anyways).
Yeah, flight performance matters so much when you have multi-hundred flares. If we really want to talk flight performance, we can talk all day about the British and their tax. I mean, when you have AIM 9L spam at a BR where no one can protect themselves, I think that beats out whatever performance issues that may affect it. Plus, let’s not forget that it has AGMs and other payload options that can easily wreck havoc among ground AI and bases, but hey, it can only go 676 km/h :'-(, same with the Su-25, it’s sooooooo terrible having all aspect missiles when the best flares it fights are 16 round rocket pods, it must be so terrible going 962 km/h and fighting jets that have the turning radius of a grid square (looking at you J-32).
It may not be in this thread, but there is another thread that said that since the J-7D has so many flares, it is untouchable.
I know the context, it’s a bunch of c… people trying to nerf minor nations, because God forbid another country defeated their meta. I mean, do I need to bring up that guy who is demanding that other jets go up in BR because his MiG 23 was being bullied?
Yeah, that shouldn’t be the reason. Joke or not, the fact that the Venom is at 8.7 quite literally defeats all arguments against the A-10 and Su-27 from going up in tier. Anything you can say about why the A-10 and Su-25 should stay at 10.3, regarding speed, flight performance, anything besides bias.
We can say the same about the J-7D. It’s all whataboutism.
I was being sarcastic about that, and it should read clearly, especially in the context given.