Perhaps not, but the tanks it faces have only gotten significantly stronger and it’s lost it’s only major advantage in having a reload rate buff. Even tanks that were weaker like the ariete are now tentatively stronger since they got the 5 seconds reload with DM53. That was no small buff for them, but the CR2 remains the same. Especially with the ahistorically tiny ready rack.
It didn’t even get a BR reduction in the “decompression”
There are also some “outside of the box” buffs they could get like giving most of them a dozer blade.
How about Python 4 and Derby on the F-16D, it already doesn’t get AMRAAMs and is 13.7 despite being a worse airframe to the F-16C, it could be bumped up to 14.0 if needed but I’m not sure it would need it, like you say IR missiles are much more restricted in usage
You mean like the truth that Israel already outcompetes Russia in air
and there is no real way around the Python 4 being good, they have to introduce it before the AIM-9X as that is equivalent to the Python 5 so unless they skip a missile Israel will have another spot in the limelight
Yeah adding them alongside the existing weapons would be the best option. There’s no point in handicapping an aircraft with just IR missiles when it can carry both IR and ARH missiles.
Yeah, Harrier Gr9A, BAE Hawk, Jaguar Gr3A, Tornado F3 FSP, Typhoon F2, Gnat, Sea-Vixen FAW1 and many many others would be great additions, enough to fill 7 full lines without a single Soviet aircraft. 9 with south Africa as well
