IMO the ME-262 A1-a/U1 struggles even more, it gets an extra pair of 20mm but its 7.3…
Doesn’t it also get the pair of mk-103s?
The Me 262 A-1a/U1’s multiple nose armament, compared to the regular Me 262 A-1’s regular 4 x M.K. 108 30mm cannons, is actually pretty good. Sure, the plane is a bit heavier as a result, but the Me 262 A-1a/U1’s combined firepower allows overall aiming with it to be ALOT easier, especially with the higher velocity M.K. 103 30mm and M.G. 151 20mm for less overkill and better ammo conservation.
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I’d say more of a 6.7 w interceptor spawn. or 6.3
Even though the Me-262 is inferior in literally every metric to vehicles of the same BR like the P-80?
Sure it has much better armament but the thing is, your constantly facing MiG-15’s and F86’s at 7.3. If it already struggles heavily against it’s BR “contemporaries” i.e SU11 or Meteor F Mk 3, how is it supposed to effectively fight planes with a MUCH better flight performance? Imo the only thing the U1 is good at is going in and out of furballs, destroying slow or distracted opponents or headon’ing noobs that decide to even headon in the first place. In other words, it doesn’t have alot going for it to even be considered an average plane because at the BR bracket it’s placed in, it’s just horrible. Tbh BR changes wouldn’t be as effective as decompressing the entire 6.0-8.3 ARB bracket.
Other early jets are also much lower. P-59 dives quite fast and has even better armament than these slow 30mm guns. Strikemaster can be abused alot in ARB and GRB, also very low BR. Yak15, no words. They’re all rather low BRed. But as soon as its an Arado or Me jet, the BR gets irrationally high. Despite very weak acceleration and very poor armament. Arado just three bomb hardpoints and the Me 262 with just very unsuited 30mm guns. Top Spitfires and Mustangs have no issues to beat them in ARB and GRB.
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id say lowest it should got is 6.7 no 5.3 is gonna catch that the better option is decompressing this rank as the meteor MK-3 is just better than the 262 and its only .3 higher same with the F2H-2
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You still don’t get it:
Speed advantage is irrelevant if you cant bring guns on target and your shells need 1-2 working days to arrive. A properly flown He 162 is just 5% slower and sits at 6.0 - no 5.0 can catch it - so where is the outcry?
Your logic makes zero sense as the whole idea is that aircraft become faster with increasing BRs - and top speed gaps exist for ages also the other way around. Just try to catch a BR 3.7 P-47 above 6 km with any JP fighter below BR 5.7…
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It’s really feeling itself at its current BR and due to its overwhelming armament it will stay at its current BR.
Anyone remember that?
Anyway, 6.7 would be fine. At least in ground RB to help scare away all the amazing CAS we see at that BR.
not really a problem if you infinte chances to BNZ them cause of said speed and they have zero counter to do anything the HE-162 is probably one the strongest 6.0 planes because of its speed its not fair at all if played right just look at they wyvern its basically what the 262 would be at 6.3
the HE-162 is basically the F104A of its tier
and the reason no one complains about it is cause no one plays it anymore just like every other 6.0 cause of JU-288 spam