Though for the record, I do dislike only the Americans receiving the AIM-120C-5 purely on principle that the field should be level for everyone.
To be fair, it’s compression’s fault. The jet itself fights an uphill battle vs the other 14.0s (except for the Hornet).
Decompress, decompress, decompress, decompress…
Sucks that I have to fly the F-4F ICE against AIM-120C-5s.
Yeah obviously its also a reason due to compression yes, but generally C-5s wouldnt be too much of a problem if we had confirmation that other nations already available C-5 equivalents were finally brought up to their former stats. But so far we didnt get any information, and i doubt we will
Ah, if only.
Personally, I’m huffing hopium that other nations’ struggle buses will be getting their buffs.
But the actual probability of that happening is… eh.
One can hope.
The hornet is not the best, I agree.
The F-15E is the best BVR plane in the game, and the EFT follows it. You are vastly underestimating the amount of parity that exists at top tier, and gaijin will ruin that by making yet another OP American aircraft.
If anything, the F-15C needs to go to 14.0 because I don’t think it’s equal to the Su-27SM.
lol? The top air nation again after 10 months, that along many other nations slinging 120A/Bs, including Germany, GB, Japan, Israel, France, etc. and before the nerf on most ARHs, the buffs on MICAs, and the R-77-1. I think its a decent change of pace from where the game was.
But don’t worry, eventually the 120-C will be gimped to 20ish Gs of overload, with an awful aoa generation.
speaking of 120Cs:
Those missiles have only technological improvements which Gaijin:
won’t develop as its completely worthless
won’t apply as the performance boost out of the improvements is negligible if they fix the AIM-120A properly, to which the only solution to a noticeable performance boost is to jump to the C5.
10 months? The Rafale/EFT was only added in December. F-15E was added in October/November, before that F-15C dominated ARH, before that F-15A was debatably better than the Su-27 in Air superiority.
Opressive on day 1 without drag, significantly opressive for barely a month or a couple of weeks at best, not to mention they started the devblog season right before patch release.
Lasting only a month before Gaijin nerfed AIM-120A/Bs for everyone without a single document referring to such change, which marked the beginning of the 10 month period of time.
Deliberate lie. The F-15A was on the weaker end of the patch along the M4k, both being HMS-less when compared to the Gripen and the Su-27, and carrying a SARH nowhere near the R-27ER.
nah, given the timeframe you’re referring to (July/December), it was contested with its anemic AIM-120A/B. The only advantage the US consistently had were the airframes, and even then, was/is a meta where dogfighting wasn’t and isn’t a godlike asset for the F-15C or even E. If you’re arguing over its thrust, god forbid the US has something to use as an advantage at top tier, as such thrust sacrificed a significant amount of manueverability the F-15A had for example.
Both laughably brief dominances that got eclipsed by balance patches.