J35 Draken BR Issues (GRB)

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Now as the title suggests, i believe the J35’s are overtiered in GRB, and i do not promote a significant decrease in BR, only by a single BR i,e. 0.3.

If we considering what the bring to the fight in GRB we see that they -

  1. Do not have any guided ordinance, neither AGM (MCLOS/TV/IR/Laser) where vehicles at substantially lower BR bring these capabilites, (Bullpup, Kh-59, AGM-65B) and similar are found at even lower BR.

  2. No or considerably low Countermeasure count, from (9.7 - 10.7) we have J35-A & D lacking countermeasures all together and only the premium/squad Drakens even have access to countermeasures 12 - 24+ 44chaff for the J35XS & F-35 at (10.7)

this is not even a case of ‘‘risk of uptier’’ as heatseeking AA launchers are found at the lowest Draken BR of 9.7 across multiple nations (Santal, Gepard, ZSU-23-4M4, and so on)

And as such i would suggest a downtiering of the J-35 Draken family by .3/.4 BR in GRB alone
(Not discussing ARB here as i believe while overtiered in the same way, there are more ways to counter said deficiencies in ARB)

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Definitely agree

Only the F-35 has bombs at all; the rest only have rockets, and out of those, only the J35XS has CCIP (small thing, but still note-worthy).

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Aye, should’ve mentioned that there isn’t even any mechanical/data assistance for any ground ordinance besides the F-35.

Even doing CAP duty, the flare count is negatively impacting its capabilities, and while possible to evade a missile by physically evading it, doing so will slow down a delta/double delta wing so much it will be impossible to evade a second missile and/or guns giving you in effect only one opportunity to evade.

So wether one is doing CAP or CAS with subpar ordinance, the draken is severely limited within its BR.

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F-35 is the same BR as the British Phantoms with sky flash and PD radars with more CMs and missiles and bombs lol.

Tornado prem and event are 10.0 with better speed payload, CM, and 2 all aspect 9L missiles

Gaijin doesn’t use any brain power for balancing the drakens because they don’t want you playing them in the first place.

That why the J35D was at 10.7 for months after the XS went down to 10.3 and I was stuck fighting Mig 23 players

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Aye, there are plenty of options that does most things better and a few that does everything better at their respective BR.

Phoenix, I’ve looked around and it seems suggestions thread is nothing but suggesting new vehicles, you know where I would go about writing about BR changes that has a chance of gaijin actually seeing it?

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Realistically no where, there is a BR thread by uniquescorpion but it really doesn’t matter.

You’re gonna have to wait until BR changes and I’ve tried the last 3 BR changes to get the F-35 down unfortunately there’s simply not enough people to get gaijin to notice

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That first turn is an excellent example of how ass the Draken is at turning; just before the turn, you are going at 747 km/h, and at the end of the downward turn (alt was constantly decreasing) you’re going at 600 km/h.
I know it’s a canard-less delta wing, but that is just absurd, nej?