Mirage IIIe back to 10.3

Thats a compression issue, the Mirage IIIC can’t move up as its flareless. In a 9.0 downtier the thing is near untouchable. As for the IIIE, 10.7 isn’t great but I can’t see it going to 10.3 while remaining in a balanced state.

It’s worse than many vehicles currently at 10.3.

Who is asking for the 3C to go up

I think 10.7BR is fine for IIIE, but a little bit of buff for stock loadout might be juicy and won’t hurt much.

Stock grind of IIIC was insane thanks to AIM-9B, and I am quite shunned to try IIIE stock grind while I need to fight against 23ML with 9B. :(

Legacy modification tree is brutal I think.

Why

BC it is IIIC but with RWR and flares?

Seems not a great jet thanks to the insane level of compression, also seems not a bad enough to get buffed down to 10.3

I have a plan to ace it if Gaijin get rid of brutal stock or 23ML

I enjoyed both IIIC and israel one, so I think it will not that bad.

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Was talking about the Mirage III BRs, thought I’d shove it in there. As for the 3 CJ, 10.0 fair again as it trades the Magic 1 for longer range IR msls (9Ds)

It is heavier with a better engine though, you do lose a bit of flight performance :)

No, it is a 3C that has FAR worse thrust/weight ratio because it gains over a ton in empty weight but you gain 20 kg/f of thrust on afterburner… that’s a rounding error. It gains a SMALL amount of countermeasures in exchange for this along with the RWR… things you ONLY need because you’re at 10.7 to begin with. At 10.0 a RWR is optional. You’re paying 0.7br to get 45 CMs and a far worse flight model.

Ok but I am only talking about the 3E

It is just heavier, the engine is almost identical.

You gain 20 kg/f of thrust on afterburner… that’s a rounding error.

I can’t see 9.3s having any chance against a Mirage IIIE though. It may suffer a bit at 10.7, but what is say an F100D supposed to do to you now? Against a 3C it could at least hope its 9E hits if the Mirage is slightly slow

Why does a 9.3 suffer against a 3E but not a 3C

This is cope by you. You are not stupid enough to think this really matters. If a 3E is slow enough for a 9E to hit it’s also slow enough to be blasted away by any weapon down to .50 cals.

Well that changed quickly… In a downtier the 3C is next to untouchable, of which I have already referred to. However, what is a flareless deltawing supposed to do against 11.3? No RWR or anything that can save you.

because you keep bringing up other mirages, and now you try saying 3E is too strong but clearly don’t have this mentality with the 3C

Only if it maintains speed without giving its ass to missiles, and you can dodge its attacks since it utilizes not so sensitive rear aspect missiles.

It’s too strong for 10.3. The Mirage IIIC’s lack of countermeasures means that a higher BR would make the thing a free kill.

Why, and good reasons this time

Nobody, literally nobody, is suggesting the 3C go up.

Fair point, +0.7BR for 45CM is a bit too much if we consider contemporary jets in American trees

But ehh… That’s a number I can live with…
I had experience with GR.1A(+1.0 for flare) so…

I can bear with it if Gaijin gives me any better missile than AIM-9B for the stock loadout.
9B is too awful for 10.7BR jet I guess.

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I’ve already mentioned why its too strong for 10.3. 9.3s simply can’t do anything to it. Most of the 10.3s are argueably underBR’d (F8U I’m mainly looking at you). The last thing we need is more compression around those battle ratings. At 10.3 an argueably balanced plane is the Mirage 5BA- you get countermeasures but you drop the radar and centreline pylon, while switching the Magic 1s for 9Js.

GR.1A is tragic

But they can deal with a MIG-21SMT? MiG-21MF? F-8U? Mirage 3C? F-1? No logic is here. You haven’t given a real reason why the 3E is better.

Not a real argument for keeping 1 jet at the wrong BR for what gaijin currently has the BRs at. You aren’t on here making posts saying the 21SMT should go up in BR. You’re on here denying the 3E gets a downtier just because you have the thought the 21SMT might be too good for 10.3, despite the 3E being strictly worse than the 21SMT as it is, so it wouldn’t matter regardless…

Cool, so from now on I expect to see nothing but rapid advocation for decompression… because otherwise you’re saying something should be done then doing nothing for it but denying other solutions.