No engine upgrade makes me actually believe they’ll add it (with R-77’s). I also think they’ll give the F-20A AMRAAMS.
Bison (MiG-21bis engine + better radar )+ R-77 and R-73
Vs
F-20 (F-5 with F-18 engine + better radar) + AIM-120 and AIM-9L
Kinda makes sense. Rank 7 has bigger performance discrepancies in their premiums. Here I’d say many would choose the R-73’s and Bis engine over the better engine with 9L’s.
Israel is indeed a strong contender for an advanced 21. But they also have advanced Kfirs that would work.
Sweden has Draakens on two levels as premiums, Israel might get Kfirs on two levels. 21 or Kfir, both can be really cool.
Yeah. Veeeery possible we’re gonna see a large batch of premiums coming like we did when rank 7s initially came.
Also possible they go with a different marketing strat of doing 1 or 2 per patch (despite having them ready already) so people can regularly buy every patch. That is my spending habbit, others might have a similar spending habbit.
Only thing I have to back that up is a single rank 8 premium came last patch and presumably one on the leaklist so bit of a wild guess.