New incoming missiles! Old meta ruined?

[Flanker_Thunder]

Community Update No.10: Starting The Year Off!

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So AIM-120D and PL-12A just got mentioned and will be added in the future with new aircrafts, with a new visually/statistically different engine for the J-10C (WS-10).

My question comes to ask all the currently toptier players: Do u think this 2 new missiles will perform a lot better than the current metas (R-77-1/MICA-EM)? Give ur explanation.

[Leinadmix9_ツ]

@Flanker_Thunder

Do u think this 2 new missiles will perform a lot better than the current metas?

AIM-120D no

@Flanker_Thunder

Give ur explanation.

This probably

[Flanker_Thunder]

@Leinadmix9_ツ

This probably

so AIM-120D goes in a straight line, PL-15 turns, R-77M turns asf and IRIS-T transforms into a sketch?

[Leinadmix9_ツ]

IRIS-T starts following itself