Yes, while Russia did need a PESA aircraft with R-77-1, it is high time to make sure the Rafale is not outdated.
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Bumped 🙌
France needs another fix, now with R-77-1 in the game, and MICA still in gimped state, there are absolutely zero reason to give its historical power rather than sticking to artificial nerf.
Just like how Magic 2 receive its IRCCM when IRCCM Missile was introduced to the game.
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Doesn’t this make powercreep worse, with one of the best aircraft, getting better at the only thing it wasn’t good at?
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The Su-30SM is arguably also getting better at the only thing it wasn’t good at (if you don’t take R-27ER into account).
The Su-30SM would have been a strong WVR fighter when looking at its TVC capabilities, and R-73s. But now it also gets a PESA radar, 12 R-77-1, with the option to exchange them for R-27ET or R-27ER.
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AMRAAM is already good, it isn’t gimped as the others, Russian Mains deserve the missile so it can be competitive at least for now, so does France getting its missile fixed from ahistorical and artificial nerf.
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Isn’t this the problem for all Fox 3 Missile? I mean MICA EM still have so many drag which make it ahistorical.
I see, then AIM-120 too need to be buffed and this will make MICA buff more justified.
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That’s why I agree with OP that MICAs should really be the first ARH to get fixed —if there’s any priority to it—, followed by a reversal on several artificial nerfs on drag and AOA to other ARH missiles.
I honestly prefer that path over getting a new flock of missiles.
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Yeah, thanks for the correction, that will make MICA buff more justified, since I thought only MICA get artificial nerf.
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So the f15 was too strong because it has 8 ARH, but 50% more on another airframe totally fine.
Typical gaijin moment and I can’t wait for all the hypocrites to explain away how this is actually “fair and balanced.”
Not that I give too much of a crap because I’m not good at air, but I sure love watching people spin up some BS.
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Most missiles like the mica, aam-4, derby etc are purposely misrepresented in order to balance them against the early aim-120 and r-77.
Now if russia can have the best missile in one, if not the best platform with the most missile count while other nations have nerfed missiles or in the case of aim-120a/b which are much older missiles, there is a clear unbalance.
And they still didn’t fix the ef2000 radar and rafale bugs, and the IRST switching problem. That is really outrageous.
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I’m quite curious how this will turn out.
New R-77-1 mounted in large numbers on a new probably quite maneuverable airframe with ability to turn off the AOA limiter and PESA radar ?
What could possibly go wrong…
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Then give AMRAAM users AIM-120C for the end of the line jets.
MICA can pull crazy 270° turns to hit targets at ridiculous angles with the 50G thrust vectoring…
The ONE advantage AIM-120 is suppossed to have is range- now it could not even have that? And with R-77-1 coming too, on top of that…
So yeah. Give AIM-120C, and fine by me.
But I can’t see why AMRAAM users must be capped to 120As while everyone gets crazy 50G missiles and now ALSO with range.
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Mica should be the least of your worry now…
And i remind you that the point of this game is not to do accurate battle, but to put ~ equal vehicles against each other.
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120C-5 is still probably not needed. Correct 120A/B or C-(1 to 4, which improves maneuvering with stronger actuators and slightly more range due to less drag) is probably competitive enough.
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Fine by me!
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To be fair, that’s a completely separate topic. If you wish to make another topic dealing with that request, I’m happy to support it by liking the topic and giving you a vote, but it’s different than this topic.
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Do that mean the mica em will be able to archive 80km instead of 50km?
I support any MICA buff, but does anyone fire these things past 30km at most? What’s the gameplay difference?
I couldn’t tell you how much more range it would get, only that it would get more range if it happened to get corrected.
Currently MICAs are not really viable for BVRs in its current state compared to AIM-120A or R-77-1. But even if you don’t really do BVR, having the MICAs range corrected would mean that it would have more energy to continue pulling in a close range situation as well.
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