The MiG-27M’s BR at 11.3 is insane, facing PD and good SARH missiles, while having very lackluster performance and weapons is not justified in any way. It is just an utterly abysmal display seeing the entire enemy team swarming you because they know your an easy target.
I don’t usually complain about BR placement, but this thing is just utter shite.
Well, for starter, MiG-27 isnt a fighter, but bomber. So just push through until you get ordinance and go to TRB
And it doesn’t even get good optics to aim its weapons. And if you want to carry R-60s you have to give up one of your guided weapons, though in all fairness there’s no reason to as you’ll always get killed in a dogfight. Both MiG-27s could easily go to 11.3, maybe even lower.
To be fair that a general issue with Soviet Attackers - lack of good optics. Best you can do is use KAB-500Kr or Kh-28T IR optics to assist
Mig-27 is fine where it is. Good engine, 4x R-60Ms, base of bombs.
PDV isn’t a great radar.
Wait until you play Su-24M, that thing is a literal piece of shit. Slow, bad acceleration, doesn’t hold speed or turn.
Can’t bomb, because there is a literal garuntee there is at least 3 F-104 TAF bombing instead of being a fighter like they should when Italy is on your team. Then you have F-4 Bomber guys.
Other than that, the same goes again:
I’ve had an F-5E chase me for around a minute and launch every missile he had at me…
Issue is that can receive Schkval HMD and R-73’s to fix that issue. And it’s PD air to air radar.
It’ll still be a flying piece of shit that’s at an even higher BR.
Instead of adding crap to it, how about it loses (some) R-60Ms and gets down in BR where it isn’t bullied to bases by literally every jet except Su-22M3 which is yet another really sad story.
Actually F-104S irl had 2 separate configurations: interceptor (CIO - caccia intercettore ognitempo, no cannon and air-to-ground, but SARH) and fighter-bomber (CBO - cacciabombardiere ognitempo, no SARH, but cannon and air-to-ground ordnance).
Plus WT has very poor classification for jets.
At its br it’s better as a bomber than a fighter imo.
Although there is a general issue with napalm carriers, as this type of bombs is way more effective in base bombing, than general bombs and fast fighters equipped with napalm usually become a better bombers. This is especially sensible for planes like Yak-28B, which don’t have napalm.
On the other hand, all of above isn’t an issue at all, the main problem is a lack of targets to bomb in ARB, there should be more bases or they should be harder to destroy.
The issue is they have labeled it as a jet fighter instead of a strike aircraft as it should be. So, bomb reloads are in the order of 4 minutes or so instead of 40 secs or so. So, your lucky if you can get two bomb drops in a match and if you’re real lucky, three. Assuming you can survive all the Aim-7F’s and/or Aim-54’s or other radar missiles.
tbh they need to just bring back airfield bombing.or increase the hp of bases and have every bomb dropped give a flat rate of RP.