special version of what?
Gripen only gets 6 (4 for skyflash and cant carry CM pods) pylons so it has to trade 9M for skyflash, honestly not that surprising most people forgot the A considering how mid it became after a patch lol. IMO the best 13.0 is the SU-27 R27ER and ET with R73 has been my comfort jet and of the 13.0’s that were the original top dogs gripen is the weakest bunch, realistically id just avoid the gripen at all costs at 13.0
I’d say the AIM-54 is the 3rd worst after that though, I’d definitely take the R-27ER over it any day
iran army still use chieftain, during the Shah, iran army was one of the best 10 armies in world but right now its weak
R27ER is just fast and insanely good at turning at its higherspeed, imo its better than R77
i dont know, i think modified chieftain or challanger 1 or a mix of them lol
abrams of america was a better choice but some relations with british companies and some iranian powerful mans in 70s ended with this tank lol
This tank is based on the Chieftain, but has a lot of differences.
The Challenger 1 was later created using the developments of the Shir-2
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It definitely makes an argument for it, the R-77 is better closer in though just so you can defend better, 4 of each missile is probs the best loadout for the SU-27SM
I still enjoy the gripen a, it’s quite potent. I just never run anything that’s not the 6x 9m because skyflash sucks.
I always thought of it as a Challenger 1 prototype, but the “Chieftain” wording got me confused for a moment…
Then I remembered that, technically, Challenger 1 is a development of the Chieftain, so… kinda checks out xD
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aim54 has the obvious range advantage but ever since the fin aoa buffs, they’re pretty potent at medium to long range. The r27er is much better within 20km though.
But when you get constant 14.0 matches against the MICA’s not having a longer range missile makes the A useless outside of downtiers, unfortunately sweden has essentially no alternatives like most nations considering your other 13.0 option is one of the worst at that BR. And if you wanna try something else you get a okay missile barge at 12.3
Well, admittedly I haven’t played the gripen a since 14.0 dropped. The current 14.0s should probably be 14.3 already though and i don’t think many people would disagree with that. They’re simply too strong against the current 13.0s.
the issue is that outside 20km the chance to kill regardless of missile is much lower, the Fakour 90 is worthwhile because of its speed but the AIM-54 is too slow and doesn’t pull hard enough to be a real threat most of the time
If you actually guide them in, they’re decent. problem is no one guides them all the way in to pitbull in my experience. They just fire them and go cold. If you fire it at about 40km from 5km alt or higher, it should be going about mach 1.5-2 when it’s pitbull. It’s no fakour, but they get the job done.
Honestly i think my biggest gripe with the gripen A comes from the fact that sweden just sucks as a whole, nearly every nation has an alternative 12.x or 13.x vehicle the gripens are just kinda eh and the A gets the worst of it. If BOL wasn’t nerfed it may actually be decent but i find needing to spam flares to get a 9L off is the worst, especially since if i dont carry at least 1 skyflash i cant ever get close to most ARH slingers. If it had 7F it wouldn’t be as bad since it has range but its only good within 6KM and if the target doesn’t just fire from 15KM and if you actually have good terrain to notch and run.
Hopefully we see gripen e this year. That would at least help with the t/w and the amount of missiles you can carry even if it doesn’t get iris-t nor meteor.
I suppose MiG-29SMT (9-19) lack R-73M.
but battle rating 13.7 max ?
AIM-7F swap AIM-7M, but lose AIM-9M from F-15A Baz and decreased BR to 12.7
RB 71 DF (Skyflash temp) replace with RB 99 but omitted RB 74 (M)
even at those speeds it’s about a 15-20 second warning of an incoming missile, so unless you’ve got a really bad RWR you should still have plenty of time to avoid, there are lots of very unaware players though which does help you get kills
Wanna ask quickly, what is the ‘info requested’ sign for in the bug report system if ‘not a bug’ and closed comment is done to most report for not having evidence?