It would also help with the shit BR gaps sweden air has but thats not whats gonna happen so we gotta enjoy the BR gap because gaijin fucked over the A though thats pretty par for the course with how they add air vehicles on sweden.
Also the F16A is the only contemporary to the Gripen A in dogfights due to its weight. A even slightly competent pilot should be able to hold his own if he knows how to bleed deltas.
USN Legacy Hornet 80’s for USA tech tree maybe F/A-18C Early
Gaijin could add Finnish F/A-18C basic with Legacy Hornet (AN/APG-73 RUG I radar) from USN (F/A-18C late) and Swiss (F/A-18C Upgrade 21 or 25) but after legacy hornet 80’s
RAAF F/A-18A basic in 80’s like F/A-18A or F/A-18C Early from USN
F/A-18D basic (RMAF) Like F/A-18C/D (Early) from USN and F/A-18A basic from RAAF
Honestly, i cant see gaijin adding the ealy F18 for finland or the swiss because having another vehicle with mininal changes wont be enough to warrant a new BR with the current compression. Now if they limit the missiles then yes it makes sense and unfortunately thats probably how they will do it if they go down that route.
Just revert its air and ground BR and it would be somewhat balanced. 4xAIM-9M with HMD would be too destructive in 11.3, and in 12.0 GRB, the airframe was too bad to deal with even ITO 90s, needless to say pantsirs.
Gaijin are scared of top tier folders. Pretty much all of the recent top tier additions could have been foldered with their versions prior. In most cases there’s a slight FM and performance change and one or two weapon changes and thats it.
With Sweden top tier Gaijin should have foldered both JA37’s together and both JAS-39’s together. Literally 1 missile difference in both cases. Yet you need 400k RP for 1 new missile
They definitely do not need a second scharnhorst class particularly with a 17 second reload and 9 guns.
My fingers are crossed for Mackensen or Ersatz Yorck as they’d actually be balanced and then they can remove Scharnhorst until we get to rank 7 and br 8.0.
That ship should not be in-game and needs removing and replacing like the CV-90120 got switched out for the TML (or whichever way around it was).