How are the US deisgned aircraft in the US tree the wrost? I can see it with the Phantoms sure, but the J still worked fine for me. The US air tree is highly competitive at top tier, while it is somewhat unsurprising that a later variant ofa existing aircraft which then was exported years after the original variant went into service in the US would be somewhat superior. Just look at all the F-15 exports while the US was still operating F-15C only now with F-15EX as well as F-21 Viper that pattern changed.
In the 80s - when MiG-29, SU-27, R-27 and R-73 all went into service they were rather dominant to say the least. Makes sense that tehy are portrayed as such in game. Don’t worry there will be the focus on the US at some point again while ‘‘minor nations’’ have to wait though Mirage IIIC and Mirage 2000C were interesting anomalies in that regard.
Just going to point out that it may well be an RWR function since they can distinguish SARH missile Guidance waveforms in addition to regular Track and Scan functions and in fact practically have been able to do so from the beginning with the AN/APR-25 RHAW set.
If its also for IR missiles that would be different but the functionality does / will exist for the F-16.
Welp in the end it isn’t really the F16 that is going to make things that harsh for the 2000-5F but the Mig 29 SMT this crap has access to the R73 and R27ET with no AIM9-M for the americans and no upgrade to the Magic 2 man this update sure looks (not) great for the air battles.
France will always be gimped,… because France should never be better than USA // Russia for Gaijin,…
In their minds France couldn’t be better than both Russia and USA,…
even more since Mirage 3C and 3E excelled at being fighters versus F-4’s and MiG-21’s(thanks to a playerbase FAR MORE EXPERIENCED, than those from USA and Russia),
the next aircrafts in line got badly modelized weapons (Super 530F and D, Magic-II) nerfed older ones (Magic-I), and the cherry on top was the Mirage 2000-5F using weapons from Mirage 2000-9 (which was the only one to be able to use such weapons), while missing high quality stuff,…
Now they bring Super-Etendard,… and next update would be Super-Etendard Modernised in order to make us wait for the MICA’s (obviously those 2 aircrafts should have been added far before the Mirage 2000-5F).
The game is currently setting up Modern Fox-3’s,… but from the look of it,… when MICA’s will finally get in the game, Gaijin would have superior counterparts for the other aircrafts,…
AIM-9M for sure,… AIM-9X should happen at the same time as the MICA-IR (unless gaijin finally sees that 2x MICA-IR never will have superior Impact than 6x AIM-9M,…)
Welp better stop playing the game before it gets even worse 4th gen should have brought balance to top tier yet the game has never been so unbalanced and nobody from either the community or the content creators are gonna stand up for this as 80% of community is USSR and US.
The only thing i hope is that most of the non USSR playerbase will complain enough until update release For AIM9-M to be added which could bring Magic 2 IRCCM but again very unprobable as gaijins tends to listen to it’s community when it threatens to leave the game…
Also @DirectSupport I always wanted to know, which country do you come from?
Never said it is,… but the current ways of Gaijins are impenetrable,… yet French players and true searchers knows that the current game is set for France to fall as a victim