Basically the only reason this is true is because R-27ER is the best SARH by a significant margin. But most SARH are negated hard by the lofting that all ARH do.
The actual flight performance of Su-27 is abysmal and marginally better than KWS or any other late Phantom.
Additionally 13.0 needs decompressing but ARH slingers obliterate the entire 12.0-13.0 range of planes.
unless we see ARH stuff sent to at least 13.7 for only the weakest of slingers (J-8F, JA37DI) F-15E/I imprisoned at least at 14.7.
Then there can be the beginning of sorting out the BR of Rank VIII planes.
The Su-27, J-11, JAS39A, F-15A have all RAVAGED the early Fox 3 slingers with absolute impunity. Because it doesn’t matter how good those Fox 3s are, if the plane they’re on isn’t good.
The F-4F ICE has the worst IRCCM missile in the game (the 9LI is just a worse 9M since it lacks the smokeless motor which is one of that missiles only advantages to begin with). 4 AIM-120s. A good radar. But no HMD and it’s a complete BRICK of a plane.
The Su-27 by comparison is faster, with an HMD, better IR missiles, SARHs that while worse than AIM-120s it can use more flexibly due to the HMD.
Early Fox 3 slingers are where they’re at for a reason. They’re not good.
I feel that stuff like this would be easier if BR’s would change with the modifications you have. Stuff like going from A/PESA radars and more advanced weapons would increase the BR of the aircraft when the relevant mods are selected. If you don’t have these upgrades or want to use them you can just remove them and use the earlier mods.
For something like the F-16C having a AIM-9X mod and Radar mod would increase the BR but if you didn’t have/want these you can just use the standard radar and 9M’s. Or it could be condensed into Block modifications, instead of separate mods for the radar and weapons you would just have a Block 52 mod.
Something like this would solve the issue of vehicles being moved up in BR and leaving a gap where Gaijin would otherwise need to add another aircraft to fill it or adding the exact same aircraft but with 2 different weapons.
We already have something similar to this with the Tornado ASSTA1 having an ASSTA3 mod that allows you to use LJDAM’s and a TGP on it but the Devs would need to just add the ability for the modification to dictate BR.
Unfortunately, nothing.
ZTZ99A is the current best of the Chinese MBTs. And China won’t get a decent MBT unless Gaijin unnerfs the ZTZ99A or VT-4 series, which is unlikely right now.
Type 10 with experimental APS can be added but other than that, idk.
Russia and China actually NEED new jets because the U.S. got given a new competitive top tier jet that broke the ceiling that they ALREADY HELD.
China is also getting a lot of jets because they just made a ton of them later on.
like to make this clear. The F-15C was the best 13.7 in the game for 2 updates… and they literally added a better jet to the same nation. The meta nation got power crept by itself.
Because they realized China is a good market to expand in.
And also they need to quell the rage of Chinese players against Gaijin after their inaccurate modeling of high-tier Chinese vehicles, or else they won’t give Gaijin any money.
MiG-29M would be competitive, MiG-31 would have basically the same play style of the F-15E but on steroids, there’s a lot to choose from… I would be heavily surprised if only the su-33 is added.
Still hope they don’t get anything too modern that will overshadow Typhoon and Rafale if they are actually coming
Yeah i am expecting (hopium really) something like the F-2 for japan to go with the F-5s they are adding.
And maybe some form of Su-30 for the USSR.
On another note i do wonder if this update is going to introduce SEAD and ECM. Because there are alot of signs pointing towards it being very likely to come soon and something like ECM in particular is kinda needed going forwards tbh.
This is true only for ARH slingers which don’t carry AIM-120. AIM-120 + adequate radar with datalink = monster.
Try playing a Harrier with AIM-120, you’ll see.
Also F-15A is cracked and not really comparable to the other three.
Stuff like JF-17 are very weak for ARH carriers, but they still really shouldn’t fight SARH slingers too much, but they also shouldn’t fight F-15’s.
The issue is AIM-120 is way too strong for basically no good reason.
Now we reach what I find something that can’t be serious.
In the game I play, AIM-9M is the best IRCCM missile outside of the rare HOBS shot against somebody who is not aware flares exist.
Still totally inferior to an adequate radar and AIM-120, it really isn’t a contest.
In order to be in a position where the HMD and R-27ER have advantages, the enemy lost already by poor positioning and you are essentially ambushing them or they are inattentive.
They are where they are for the same reason F-15E is the same BR as Su-27SM.
Gaijin’s sense of “balance” is so totally alien to me. The only thing for certain is it looks little like what you or I might call balanced.