Making Phantoms Great Again

A little more info would be greatly appreciated as to why

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agree with that both british tech tree phantoms are impossible to play without losing thw will to live, definitely needs some help, wouldnโ€™t be so bad if you could 2 aim7s as default in stead of just a gun pod and 2 terrible aim 9ds

I agree, F-16 should made great again!!

Skyflash, AIM-7E2s, R24s, etc are good overall missiles.
None of them are as good as AIM-7Fs in the long range, not even close.
AIM-7Fs were the biggest radar missile powercreep of all War Thunder, but was sadly necessary because planes like F-16 canโ€™t fire AIM-7E2s.

Itโ€™s a PD radar, so Iโ€™ve never seen this.

The gunpods on all Phantoms harm performance.
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The 12.0 Phantom stock grinds are awful, though the Tornado F3 & Mig-23 stock grinds are worse.
I never see F-4EJ Kais.
& I rarely see F-4Js, but when I do I can know itโ€™s primarily due to nation popularity, which means nothing.

Tigertank here has a point Iโ€™ve said in the past as well.
Vehicles so reliant on air to air weapons not having at least their weakest options for whatever reasonโ€ฆ
Tornado F3 has radar missilesโ€ฆ why canโ€™t other rank 7s?

I believe that phantom are already good.

Theirs performance is not great but its it a advantage in fights.
But also their missiles counts is good for the br they are in.
They are on par or even better than the f18A at 12.3.

I dont mind the countermeasures buff but giving them aim9m will make 12.7 worthy.

lol.

If youโ€™re frustrated with the current state of some of the aircraft in the game, you know where to go. Make your voice heard.

So, you partially agree rather than outright disagree.

Right now, youโ€™re completely dismissing the FGR.2 and the F-4J(UK), and youโ€™re also overlooking how notoriously awful the stock grind is for the F-4J in the US tech tree. Thatโ€™s such a well-known issue that I didnโ€™t even feel the need to bring it up in this part of the post. Youโ€™re also ignoring the F-4Fs, and you disagree with adding the external fuel tank as well.

It honestly feels like you skimmed through a lot of what I wrote. This isnโ€™t the kind of suggestion you can glance over and immediately vote on, you need to take the time to consider each point. Simply disagreeing without addressing the arguments isnโ€™t enough. @30x170_APDS-T

exactly, like even if we lost the gun pod and only started with 2 aim9d and 2 aim7e thats still a improvement in my book, but would be nice if it kept the gun pod and then you can have 2 aim9d, 2 aim7e and gun pod, would be more of a equal starting point. although personally if it was me my loadout would be gun pod and the 2 aim7e and forget the aim9d since theyโ€™re useless at that br

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Why did you tagged me?

Will you stop strawmanning, please?

You called Spey Phantoms F-4FG

When spey phantoms(F-4K/M) are neither F-4F/G.

So I explained why it is ridiculous.

Then you are saying, โ€œBut you called it FG too!โ€

If you want an F-4-whatever designation when calling Spey phantoms, call them F-4K/M.

Call it with the proper name.

Me, because you voted no without considering anything else.

And I should explain why ?

For something you completely donโ€™t agree with, yes.

Thereโ€™s levels to this. Itโ€™s not that simple for something I tried to make simple.

Especially since an AIM-7E just racked me up a top down frag against a bombing Mig-23ML.
We canโ€™t carry with Phantoms anymore, mostly because of BR compression, but even because F-18As exist.
Any amount of decompression we do, the F-18A will still be within range, but itโ€™s only really potent in dogfights.
13.0 decompression needs to get F-15s, Flankers, etc into 13.3.

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@HazelPam7769, he has the right to vote no and also has the right not to say why.

@30x170_APDS-T, but it would be a pleasure if you could explain why. Because it is always great to see other playerโ€™s pov. I guess?

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Fair enough

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Explanation?

People like this is why we canโ€™t have anything nice in the game.

decompression โŒ
extra compression โœ”๏ธ
Youโ€™re just asking for quite substantial buffs with no corresponding BR increase or BR decreases with no corresponding performance nerfs, for aircraft that have rather average or above-average performance at the BR.
The only reasonable suggestion here, as-is, is the Kurnass 2000.
Some of the armament buffs would be good changes, yes, but the BR would need to be around .3 higher than stated here. For example, 11.7 for the F-4F or 12.3 for the FGR.2 and F-4S if they were to receive AIM-9L (and SuperTEMP).

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