You add an F/A-18E as US new top tier jet with an AESA radar and 9X with 120C.
But in flight performance terms it is a generation behind the likes of Rafale and Typhoon.
If you give Typhoon 120C5 and in Italies case the 9X you pretty much invalidate the F/A-18E
Restrictions for balance are already in place in War thunder.
I am well versed with which aircraft in RAF service are configured for 120C
This didn’t stop them from adding the F/A-18C Late at the same BR as the Eurofighter. Adding 120C-5s simply means the Eurofighter and Super Hornet will be at the same BR as each other and higher than the F/A-18C Late.
It all looked good till he said AIM-9X
And how much of a success was that?
Who even plays the F/A-18C Late in top tier air battles? No one the only ones you see are the Finnish ones. The F-15E is just better in everyway. F/A18-E wont be the meta jet due to it’s limited flight performance and payload options if they give it 10 120Cs then it can duel with the Su-30SMs
Should 120C come to Typhoon absolutely
Would open the door to unnerfed AAM-4 or also AAM-4B and AAM-5. Personally, I don’t see new IR missiles coming.
Quite – the F/A-18C Late is a popular aircraft. I would argue it should be 13.7, but it also shouldn’t see 12.7s, so this becomes a decompression issue.
Plenty of people… Idk what Air RB you’re playing but it doesn’t sound the same as mine lmao
Block one 9X is the weakest of them all to be fair, It’s not an IRIS-T and it doesnt have the insane range of ASRAAM
New IR missiles might come for the new top tier SAMs (eg. SLAMRAAM with 4x 120s and 2x 9Xs), but I really hope we don’t get them on actual aircraft for a few more patches.
Also yeah, IRIS-T SLS was already shown in the community post.
You might see a couple in a game compare that to the 8 or so Su-30s in everygame.
As a Typhoon player I would rather see massive fix to the Radar than a 120C being added to paper over it’s inadequacies
True, but I can’t see them just adding a bettter IR missile to one nation only, especially with better ARH missiles
Yea, I’m strictly speaking on aircraft
I’d expect the first Typhoons to get them to be Tranche 3s so the current ones can stay where they are and not enlarge the already big gap between the F-4F ICE/MiG-29G and Typhoon.
The problem with that is the seeker. If flight performance was an issue, the R-73 and MICA EM wouldn’t be in game.
I doubt the Eurofighter will stay where it currently is – especially since it is explicitly a Block 10 (ie. AIM-120C-5 + IRIS-T compatibility). It sincerely deserves to go up alongside the Rafale, we’re just waiting for better competition and newer missiles to be added.
The next new Eurofighter model to get added will probably have an AESA radar and much later missiles than the 120C-5.
Considering how much tech there is between what the ones in game have and the latest Typhoons, I very much doubt it. I’d be very surprised if there are fewer than at least three per nation by the time we get to T4s.
It has to come at some point and the 9X/R-74M are the less egregious of the other IIR missiles.
They gave the Su-30SM a brand new long range/do everything missile in the 77-1 while not giving it to the superior flight performance Su-27SM.
9X wont have a 20km lock on range it will still in game act like all the other IIR missiles be used at 3km
The AIM-9X bl 1, R-73M/74, and Python 4 coming, alongside missiles already in game like the AAM-3, Magic II, and PL-8B getting buffed to be closer to their real performances, is definitely something that should happen soon at least.
Rafale cooks Typhoon because they have the one down from the actual F.4
Typhoon in game is Tranche 2…
If they add a new Typhoon Tranche 3/4 with AESA, improved PIRATE a fully modeled DAS
and an accurate fm then yep put that sucker up to 16.0 and let it fight F-22s.
And because the CAPTOR-M is worse than the Blue Vixen in game.
Just sucks for the Aim9M guys who cannot have their best missile as it would be “game breaking”
It’s true I find the Radar in the Su-33 better than Typhoon I can actually lock what I want and while it doesnt have “TWS+” and a lower detection range. It will reliably hold a lock and not force me to cycle modes before the Radar acknowledges the target infront of me.