I played a few hundreds of games on Jaguar IS and here are my thoughts. First of all, it needs to go lower in br, currently it sits at 11.3 and is bad. Here’s why: it gets downtiers to F-14A Early pretty often and, armed with only 2 IR missiles(Matra R550 Magic 2) this aircraft stands no chanse against long range radar missiles such as AIM7F Sparrow and AIM54A Phoenix. Moreower, it has very low airframe durability. Even though it features very powerfull engines, it can not go over 1210 kph at sea level without “reduce speed”, while flatter begins at roughly 1260 kph. In my opinion it would be balanced to give Jaguar IS higher flatter speed and lower it’s br to 11.0. Other solution to it’s br would be decompression of such aircrafts as F-14A Early and F4-S Phantom II(optional). To sum it up, Jaguar IS is very capable plane limited by it’s br and max IAS.
if it didnt have majic 2’s then it would’ve been lower.
Facing them is truly terrifying, within 1.5km rear aspect, its certain death and more lower tier planes should not face them.
It could’ve been 10.3 without majic 2’s but just like all the other strike aircraft, Gaijin had to give them good missiles.
Mfw facing IRCCM missiles in flareless 10.0 planes lmao
Decompress up, never ever move down.
It was always go to be bad. Its a British Event aircraft. They are never that good. 2x Magic IIs means its stuck at 11.3. With Magic Is it would be the same BR as the Jaguar Gr1A.
There really isnt much that can be done for it directly Other than perhaps giving it a usable BR for GRB. Unlike the Jaguar Gr1A I doubt it could recieve Phimat Pod(s) for an extra 210 chaff per pod. There is the In-direct buff, of an RB EC gamemode. I HATED spading the Jaguar IS in ARB because of the slow speed and the fact there is never a ground target to bomb by the time you get to the enemy bases, but in ASB it was fine, always something to bomb and room to evade the enemy team.
That being said, I’d prefer just using the Jag Gr1 or Gr1A for the lower BR, but the all-aspects were handy to have, though a Jag is not meant for A2A combat so avoiding the enemy is always the better option. Having the fuel tank + Gen 2 Tpod is nice on the IS though but the GR1A does have a placeholder RWR and if that ever gets fixed, changes the equation a lot (especially combined with the aforementioned Phimat Pods) But ultimately, if I was playing that BR. Id just use the Tornado Gr1 which should be at 11.3 and not 11.7 and is generally superior in most regards.
it never was a good plane XD
I spaded mine but never liked Jaguar IS of mine.
Overrated by R.550 Magic 2 which is nearly unusable thanks to the pos manoeuvrability of the Jaguar Fuselage.
Magic-2 itself is a marvelous missile with IRCCM but really, the Jaguar fuselage just doesn’t give a perfect angle for it.
Gaijin thinks 2 IRCCM missiles will be too brutal for lower BR.
Well, they sent GR.1A into 10.7 while F8U-2 on 10.0 :|
Jaguar IS will never shine I guess.