Decided to finally spade the Jaguar Gr1 and immediately decided its not worth my time to even try. Despite the fact that, as far as I am aware, they made the decision to give all AAM carrying jets, AAM by default. The Jaguar Gr1 has nothing. No AAM, No rockets, no bombs. You are expected to gunfight, in a jaguar. This is stupid, this is insane. Especially as the 9G or Bombs are a rank 2 upgrade, so that is quite a bit of farming for something usable
Please for love of all that is good, Gaijin, please give this jet 540s or 9Gs by default. That way you can actually grind out the upgrades without being 100% reliant on using the gun, which is one of the most unreliable top tier cannons, the ADEN
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This is a great point, and sounds very unfair. Funnily enough, the amourers manuals say 150 rounds per gun but they max they could take and would take was 130 rounds
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For a jet to qualify for stock missiles it either has be able to upgrade to different missiles, or if it carries only one type it has to be able to equip more than two missiles. Since the Jaguar can only equip two Aim-9G’s it doesn’t qualify for stock missiles.
still should get a basic compliment of starting bombs though. A bomber being expected to gun fight with no CMs at BR10 is kinda insane
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That I will agree with you since it’s classified as a strike aircraft in game.
Yep, with 540s an option, I’d give it them, and then have 1000s be the Rank 2 upgrade instead of the Rank 3 upgrade.
2 years later, nothing has changed. I’m used to overtiered bad planes with absurd respawn costs, since I did the british bomber tree, but this plane takes the cake (so far).
So at 10.0 BR I cannot attack ground battles since 30mm does nothing and AA eats you, I cannot bomb bases, because I have no weapon to do so, I cannot dogfight, because it’s not a nimble plane, and even if I try any of those things, I have no flares, which at this BR are more useful.
I literally have to resort either to my team carrying the A point and me lurking on deck level hoping not to get spotted, or waiting for the recon/bomber/attack group appearing and noone else (with missiles) beating me to it. Playing like an outcast vulture.
A starting rocket pod would be at least something, if not a light bomb load.
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dont worry it wont get any better spaded
Soft disagree there.
Sure ARB, it still pretty weak, though near supersonic at 9.7 with 9Gs is pretty good. But the main issue is that ARB is just bad for ground attackers, so I dont really perscribe any perticular fault on the Jag GR1. It should be quite a decent ground attacker for that BR, but is let down by extreme compression and bad gamemode design. Quite good in ASB.
Jaguar GR1A though… Its straight over BRed and needs buffs (even with a BR reduction it should still get its better RWR)