Yeah but in game the aircraft that would need it and where it wouldn’t be OP is the tornado F3 late. Sea harrier FA2 is fine at 13.0.
Typhoon still is not in game (and imho it won’t likely come before September/December 2025, because December imho is going to be all focused on the F-18 and either Su-33 or MiG-29K/M
Considering Typhoon is equal to the F-18 and Su-33 and denying Britain, Germany and Italy (and france via the Rafale) a counter for an entire year would be extremely unfair, Im expecting this December (though with Aim-9M/Li and Aim-120Bs of course) would really suck to have to wait so long for the Typhoon just like we had to wait so long after the F-16 was added for a counter.
Tornado Gr4 is my guess though for a new aircraft added with ASRAAM. No radar, no HMS, limited flight performance. If it came along with Brimstone, it would make a fine addition, even at a higher BR.
I mean if Germany is getting an F-18 as leaked/datamined as Eurofighter isn’t happening anytime soon. Because Gaijin will say all 3 are good enough with what they got.
Eh… I hate only getting a new top tier aircraft once every 2 to 3 years,. I hope its wrong, because Sea Harrier FA2 or Tornado F3 late vs F-18s and F-15Es and Su-33s etc for the next year+ would suck
Typhoon airframe is miles better than both F-18 and Su-33… as an Italian I would be extremely pissed off if they modelled it so poorly it would be comparable to them. Especially for BVR it out accelerates and out climbs both extremely easily. The only somewhat comparable airframe to the typhoon of the ones I listed above might be the 29M (only one that comes close in thrust to weight), but 29M has other weaknesses.
Imho they are just going to give everyone an F-18 lol. Canadian or Australian for Britain, Swiss for Germany and Finnish for Sweden.
This is Gaijin that is what going to happen as Germany will get the Swiss F-18 and the UK and Italy have Gripen Cs so Gaijin will consider them good enough.
Depends on what version we get and what weapons will be around in mid 2025. EG F-15A was straight up added with aim9M. If we don’t get aim120C and R-77-1 (which we shouldn’t as current fox-3s are fine for now) typhoon is not going to get outgunned.
R-darters are absolutely garbage but Gripen (with aim120s) is absolutely fun.
probably 9-31, 9-41 is a bit too modern. Changes little thought, modern MiG-29K/M share the same basic aerodynamic layout with the original 9-15 and 9-31. They just have an uglier canopy and a bit better radar (they can get AESAs but at start they started with the Zhuk-M (9-15 has normal Zhuk)).