Prop bomber players have somehow forgotten how to actually use tactics and just fly straight towards gunfire now. That is a player problem. Similarly bases have 5min respawns rather than 30 seconds like they originally were on respawning maps, so now by the time you reach a base an attacker has ignored your callouts and ‘stole’ the kill leaving you to fly aimlessly for 5mins waiting for them to respawn.
I understand what you meant by the performance gaps, but you don’t want players arguing bias that nato countries don’t have a competitor at those altitudes and speed ranges added to the game. So at most it should be in the tech tree, at minimum it should be available as an event vehicle for us to choose to gain or not.
Why is that part of the debate? 😅
The YF-12A is from the US, which was then and still is now in NATO. So saying the YF-12A is a great NATO Counterpart to the MiG-25 and eventual tech tree MiG-31 is not incorrect.
Where does this myth about the YF-12´s running out of fuel all too quickly come from? The biggest reason why the srt-71 can’t take off topped up is because it can carry about 1,3 times it’s own weight in fuel to be able to cover over 5000 km in a straight line, in warthunder the yf-12 would need maybe a third or at most half of full capacity, at most.
VS the mig-25pd weapons wise, it has the advantage of having a better radar (pulse doppler vs selective mti), better IRST and longer range radar missiles, but conversely it can’t use long range IR missiles to surprise people with RWR (thus hopeless against people who know how to notch), doesn’t have short range but manoeuvrable missiles, doesn’t have a RWR of it’s own, and doesn’t have countermeasures. Add to that the FM disadvantage (indicated speed, climb rate, turn rate, g-limit, etc.), and it’s easy to see it would necessarily have a lower br than the MIG-25PD, and I don’t think it would ever be balanced in the current meta, although that never stopped a plane from being fun to use.
I’ll just point out that the ingame F-106 is barely functional compared to what it should be, starting with the doors not automatically closing as they should to the missiles themselves underperforming a lot in terms of seeker capability and manoeuvrability. Lack of countermeasures would hard cap it to a BR in the 10 range (a cheeky 10.6 might be pushing it though…)
Also for people interested in the performance, NASA published a study discussing methods to improve the performance of the SR-71 they were using for mach 3 research, so their data is a primary source.
