So let me get this right, Alpha jet is literally amongst the worst jets at the BR (already was when it was 8.7) and it’s even speculated to go HIGHER in air to air battles
It has one of the worst guns in the entire game (no, gripen bk27 is NOT the same at all, it has 4x APHE or 4X HEI per every 5 rounds and it’s starter is a high velocity explosive shell, NOT A PRACTICE TRACER FOLLOWED BY INERT ANTI TANK ROUNDS EVEN ON THE AIR TARGET BELT
Alpha jet E has DEFA, which are also another speshul kind of doodoofardiger ammo, AND IT DOESN’T EVEN HAVE FLARES.
Alpha jet also has a weird half-arsed flight model, the impossibility to lead in deflected shots and a gun placement that doesn’t help in straight forward or head ons either, and no, don’t get me started with the “it’s an attacker” trope, the AM-1 Mauler is an attacker and it can keep up with 109s, the A10 can dogfight most stuff that engages, so can the SU-25, the A5C outrates MiG19PT, the Viggens are attackers and outdogfight everything at their BR, and so on.
I’m asking it to go for 8.7 and it would still be at least 0.7br overtiered.