Honestly, I think both Harrier / Hunter are perfectly fine platforms for SRAAM in terms of flight performance, their big issue is that SRAAM’s force their BR’s to be high enough to face scary missiles themselves, which they have no flares to counter.
and just remember. F-14 is probably still colder than the Harriers and the Harriers are getting “hotter” next major update :D
But BOL flares should be like large cailbre flares but with short burn, they are currently like 1/4 standard flares with a short burn
Hunter F6 and Harrier Gr1
harrier is getting buffed, so might be better.
Was a prototype. was slated for F-5s, Tornado, Jaguar, Phantoms, Hawks, etc but never made it into service (there is a bug report in for the Jaguar because of a photo from an airshow)