Couldn’t agree more. It only pulls up to 70g. It can only pull a 180 degree turn in 3 seconds and hit a target behind the launch aircraft. It only has a psuedoimaging dual band seeker that’s unflareable at all ranges and angles. It only has a 30km range. It only goes Mach 4. It’s definitely the R-73 with FoV gating that’s superior here.
If you know that until recently they had improved the radar that TWS didn’t even have, you can tell that not even the baz meshupar.
This is where you contradict yourself a lot because although it is as you say if we go with that “logic” all missiles including their seeker heads would be historical which is not so if it were as you say the R73 would be unstoppable and it is not so it is super flare and easy to deflect to which we go that any IR missile in the game is nerfed by gaijin for its “BALANCE”and there is no missile in the game that is historical so you contradict yourself here.
so there is no justifiable reason not to put the Python 4 if even the newest missile PL5C was nerfed in that sense.
It should be said that I value the historical more than the balance because I’m not a kid who needs to be touched by the missiles to adapt to the game.
It is enough that they manipulate the flare resistance as they do with all IR missiles sadly.
Literally there is not a single missile that respects the historical seeker head in this game all missiles even the IRCM missiles were abruptly nerfed so this justification is not validif it were so the AAM-3 R73 MAGIC 2 would be the most lethal missile in the game which is not so they were nerfed enough so this justification does not apply because gaijin always plays the missiles “for balance” so they do not complain as they like to complain about everything.
Ask a DCS player if it bothers them that the R73 is so good. they need to know how to adapt and avoid close range combat and the Russians adapt to American radars. Each nation should excel at one quality and not be monotonous like Warthunder.
If you give such modern missiles to one country, you need to distribute them to everyone who has the opportunity. 9X, IRIS-T, R-74, PL-9/10 and so on and so forth. And since, for example, the USSR does not have aircraft for this, it will have to give, for example, the Mig-29M (9-15), China J-11B (although the j10a can also carry PL-9 or PL-10, but I want a normal flanker for China), the Germans Eurofighter, French Rafale with mikami IR or Asraam and so on down the list. And since all this has not been implemented at the moment, it is logical that no one will give the Israeli f15 python 4.
I think it is possible to add the Python4 in a deliberately weakened state. aam3, R-73 and other missiles of the same generation have been deliberately weakened by Gaijin to appear in War Thunder. So I think it would be better to make it equal to or slightly stronger than the aam3 first, and then in the future make it as capable as the historical one. In fact, magic2 was added later with features such as IRCCM. Sorry for the long post.