This thing cant be a 7.3, a single Albatros is able to change the entire match by just using his 76 hydras+ the balistic computer,also, the 23mm is able to atomize a lot of medium tanks. This thing is more like a 8.0-8.3. Lets not talk about how it is so OP that even if u try to shot it down with an AAA is almost impossible the 90% of the times because they will snipe u with an hydra and the worst thing is that they dont even need to make a direct impact,just impact the ground and boom
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Using the 23 mm GSh-23L cannons and x76 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 is not the best strategy. I think the more dangerous weapon is the x16 127 mm Zuni Mk 32 Mod. 0 ATAP rockets instead—More explosive mass, more accurate, more deadly. L-39ZA/ART sits at a somewhat confortable battle rating but it’s not unrealistic to see a battle rating increase. SAAB-105G could easily have its battle rating from battle rating 8.3 to battle rating 8.7 in realistic battles as example.
L-39ZA/ART is effective for ground attack, and at some point way too effective, but terrible flying; the main drawback of this airplane is the flight performance with the AI-25TLs’ terrible acceleration. One competent jet pilot in the air is a huge threat to this airplane, speaking from a perspective of someone that has the airplane and also the ways to deal with it. L-39ZA/ART relies heavily on allied support and better flying performing airplanes to stay alive.
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Tbh, i agree with u
The thing is that in a downtier it gets so freaking horrible to deal against it,its a total nightmare, i just played a match and just did 2 kills , died 4 times, i died 1 time because of an enemy tank and died the other 3 times because of an albatros destroying ny spawn, couldnt even leave the spawn imagine that, he was using the x76 hydras
Yes I must agree that L-39ZA/ART is being hold solely because of its flight performance but can have its battle rating increased. L-39ZA/ART has 317,793 ground kills versus 81,568 deaths means around 3.90 kill-death ratio against ground vehicles. To note L-39ZA/ART has 0.44 kill-death ratio against air vehicles as of June 2026.
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Yeh, idk what was gaijin thinking, this kind of things are the things that make new players leave the game, almost every mid player know that top tier rn balance is almost 100% destroyed, but when they are also doing this kind of things to the mid tier omg, its like they dont want the game to be fun xD
Genuinely ruined the BR. Cannot play 6.7 without facing hordes of these every game. 8 Zuni launches with CCIP is plain busted, especially with how piss easy it is to play. And we can’t forget what you pair it with, the Ho-Ri Production, which is one of the most busted tanks in the game.
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Both the hori production and the albatros need to go to minimum 7.7 in ground rb.
This is for just June, since they usually say “we balance mostly after player statistics” how about doing so finally. The stats for the last 6 months are all roughly the same
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Maybe No Man’s Sky should be considered more imba…?
Ah yes,paper 1945 tank to fight 1960/70 tech with stabs with 200mm pen round against ERA and armor it cant pen at 8.7 vs things that lolpen it. Btw you can strafe it with 7.7mm to death through the roof. And two shots kill it,one side to disable gunner then other side to finish it off. The plate is flat and not very strong either.
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Ah yes, the good old “but think about what it faces in an uptier!!!” dude maybe think about what has to face the ho-ri in an uptier too. But hey good that you are realizing how badly compressed 7.0-9.0 area is in general
This and the Chinese BEAT-155 round are egregious.
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like what? king tiger that can pen the view port? the bulldog apds that can pen the view port? the charioteer that can pen the view port? ASU-85 that can pen the view port?
Won’t talk about Ho-Ri since that’s off topic at the moment. Currently the Thai Albatros is much harder for non-radar SPAA to face, because of how accurately it can destroy them with Zuni from a range that is really hard for a gun SPAA to match. Especially since you only have a tiny window to engage it; the Albatros can get away from your rounds much easier than you can get away from the Zunis, at that distance.
However, sending it up feels like it could outright kill the plane, since it flies like a brick and will be destroyed much more easily by radar SPAAs.
Gaijin have once again created a balance problem for themselves by adding a vehicle with terrible flight characteristics but insane weaponry.
For the time being, my interpretation is that you simply should not spawn SPAA if you want to take down a Thai L-39, you just need to spawn a fighter. That is the correct counter. Whether the player base is amenable to learning this lesson is extremely doubtful however, since it’s hard enough to get GRB players to spawn SPAA to begin with.
I think a better solution than raising its BR would be to simply raise the SP cost of the Zuni rockets given how devastating they are with this plane’s accuracy. This way, it will be more frequent for it to spawn without Zunis if people simply don’t have the SP - or in general it will be rarer to face it with a full Zuni loadout.
Another alternative approach would be simply to nerf Zunis a little (in whatever way is considered realistic or necessary) since they seem to be the common denominator of several planes that are problematic in GRB but would be absolutely decimated if they got sent up in BR.
Just my two cents.
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I agree it should be a lot higher
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I have both Prototype and Production,and Prototype with its mid gun for 7.0 and nonexisting protection should go to 6.7. 6.0 where it was is broken OP yes,6.3 is okay.
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Teme the technique too strong?
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about that, just for 6.7 vehicles, pretty much every light tanks, 4 heavy tanks, every td that isnt a howitzer, and 1 medium, can pen the front of the hori with ease. as for 7.3s? literally every single thing it can face, can go through its front.
the reason the Ho-ri is strong, isnt because of its armour, its because its goodish at everything all at once. problem with this is, its either gonna always be good, or be completely helpless.
add in that its japanese mains, who are objectively the best players in the game, because literally every tech tree is dogshit with a few rays of shining light of a good vehicle, makes the Ho-ri dominate games.
as for the l39, the only reason its strong is the high rocket count and the zunis. there is a simple fix that somehow no one has pointed out yet. remove the zunis, replace the 19 count hydra’s, with 7 count hydra, meaning instead of the current load of 76 rockets, its 28, still powerful, but not too powerful for 7.3 with its horrendous airframe.
It’s a fast maus without a turret ffs
That gets lolpenned by 90% things on its BR,can be strafed by 50 cal and all you need when you cant pen it is hit gun,track,and go around kill it,like Jumbo does to Tigers.