Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

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It’s very hard to say, 12.3 is very strike fighter heavy, best comparisons are the Mirage 2000, which as far as I can tell is only that low as a holdover from before the Magic 2 had IRCCM, and the F-5A(G) even with 4 AIM-9L/I should be worse than that. The other comparison is the GR.7 Harrier, which has the same loadout and no radar, but a worse FM, with better RWR and more CMs, as well as all it’s A2G weapons which does increase the BR even for air.

At 12.7 I’d say it’s entirely outclassed except for maybe the F-20A, however even that has a lot of things going for it over the F-5A(G) and like I said, I think that should be 12.3 anyways

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1257

Could this F5 carry AGM65A/B?

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Universal mounts if other F5A could this could

1259

all F-5A in game have AGM-12s, did the Norwegians use Mavericks?

1260

That’s wired, if it can launch a much more advanced IR missile, how could it not take the worse one?

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The Norwegians will have upgraded it themselves to accept the Penguin, if they didn’t use Mavericks then there is no reason for them to add that capability.

From what I can see Maverick capability came with the F-5E, or at least that is the earliest version I can see that used them

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1262

Then they could also give the F-5T its AIM-9M instead of the semi historical AIM-9L.

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Its 4x Python-3 loadout would be much nicer tbh.

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1264

I’d personally love to see both.

AIM-9M would play nicely into it receiving Python 4 as well once that is added.
I also wonder what launch rails are used under the wings and if they would be capable of mounting other LAU-7 capable missiles like the Python 4 or AIM-9s, though that might be a stret h considering it was only used in Thai service to mount Python 3s.

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40 Nuke torpedos, sound balanced for the current maps, they woukd literally cluster the entire map with these torps

1266

You might be right actually, it’s starting to get a bit late for today.

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1267

Me hoping for BR Changes :(

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That is equivalent to 4x IRCCM on a solid dogfighter

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I think you’re forgetting just how much stronger the engine is on the F-20, as well as how big a difference having a functioning radar and AIM-7Fs makes

also like I said the F-20 should be 12.3

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Both should be 12.3 then, 12.0 is too low unless F-4J and S given 9L which is just bad for compression

And the F-5A has 2 engines which I’m sure helps offset it a bit

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With 4 9L/I, I think it’ll be 12.0/12.3 based on the BR of the Mirage F1C.

And the F-20 produces nearly as much thrust without an AB as the F-5A does total.

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We really need them as well as decompression.

I have a big list of changes I want to see in the pinned balance thread.

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Will Gripen E be able to beat Eurofighter and Rafale if added to the game now with 9 air-to-air missiles and AESA radar?

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Yeah probably

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wrong it produces nearly twice as much thrust without afterburner as the F-5A does with

with both jets afterburning the F-20 produces 2.66 times the thrust of the F-5A

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