You don’t need MTI mode and certainly not if they ever correct IRST functionality.
And the US F-15A has ALE-45 CM, but somehow not ALE-58. It also doesn’t really matter as even a single PDS airframe carrying the BVP-50-60 is all that is required for an A/C to have them in-game.
You need to realize, it doesn’t matter if it is not the most hyper-meta dogfighter that rules ARB. It provides a missing capability to the USSR air tree in having significantly more long-range, head-on engagement magazine depth.
For a long-range interceptor highly dependent on its radar missiles it very much is disadvantaged by a lack of PD radar, which again was my original claim. At least at any BR where it won’t simply smoke everything else by pure speed
You need to realize this vehicle would be simply unbalanceable. People already complain about something like the F-104s- now imagine an aircraft 50% faster, less maneuverable, with missiles of excellent range but awful guidance radar and agility, and on top of all that no countermeasures. It’d be simultaneously helpless and uncatchable, useless and outranging everything. Instead there are much more viable and well-rounded vehicles, from the MiG-31 to the Su-15 that won’t be so hyperspecialized as to be game-breaking.
There is no reason to suggest a MiG-25(PDS) would go any higher in BR than the F-4E or MiG-23M(L). Its slower than most of its contemporaries at low altitude.
A larger R-24R/T is not game breaking, nor awful.
Just straight up wrong.
The point of the MiG-25 in-game to essentially be able to carry 2-4 R-24R/Ts (R-40RD/TD). You might have no use for this, but those trying to cull the herd of RB-tourist zombers in ASB certainly do.
I also want the MiG-31, but that will sit at too high of a BR to be useful against F-111A or F-4 spam.
Those are not the numbers I have seen, nor the ones on the discussion thread.
Your own comment literally states the PDSL… Which is just a PDS further modernized, which is all the Devs need for a realistic implementation in-game.
Strange, I thought there already was one yet can’t find it now. Guess I can take care of that this evening. Either way I’ll talk about it anytime I see someone spewing about the Foxbat not having a place in-game. And it certainly has a point in a discussion about the Foxhound as that is just even farther in the hyper-specialized role regardless of the useless inclusion of a gun on the airframe.
Ideally in a new line of aircraft. Following on a number of other jet interceptors- Yak-25/26/28, possibly Su-9/11, Su-15TM, MiG-25PD, MiG-23P, MiG-31, MiG-31B
If not a new line, probably either the MiG or Yak lines
And when has that exactly stopped Gaijin? Multiple aircraft in-game have countermeasures and even weapons they never actually used or even tested IRL. Knowing Gaijin, they will absolutely add CMs to something like the Mig-25PDS.
