You do know that they could just add a Late F-4E (Blk 48~62; though the existing F-4E may lose some ordnance; Mav & GBU-8 & -15 ) or F-4G(HARM & HTS) and be done with it.
Its just seems incredibly dumb to arbitrarily restrict access to stores due to BR concerns when there are a number of potential replacements available(F-4D or Early F-4E), and the items in question are already otherwise modeled at a single step higher on the BR ladder(AN/ASQ-23 or -23A Pave Spike (the -A adds INS based ground stabilization) & AN/ASX-1 are present on the ISR Kurnass 2000). It doesn’t help that the US F-4E has a mix of capabilities from its entire production run, and has access to options it shouldn’t even have in the first place (AGM-62 is F-4D only).
The argument they used to justify not adding the items in question is that it apparently would impact the BR(of which BRs are set by player stats so how would they know?). That’s why splitting the airframe into a Late and Early variant would be relevant.
yeah its crazy. like you have the Super Etendard with 4 GBUs, A targeting pod with Thermals, and Magics that are getting buffed btw, at 10.0. Plus I want to see the Devs go up against a Pansir in the F-4E without any sort of targeting pod.
