Nuclear Escalation..Questions and Tips Needed Please

I have so many planes BR 12.3 on up that have incredible weapons suites. However, they are practically useless in straight Air RB, because Ive never been a “grinder”.
And so looked up Nuclear Escalation on Internet…and apparently you can fly these planes without having to have a tank to get a plane into a CAS role?
F16cm for instance…incredible loadout, never been able to use the whole “pot of shepherds pie” lol , say for instance.
My question is…If you toggle the Nuclear Escalation, is this indeed the case…Having no tanks, you can take your planes into strategic ground battles?
And if so, could I have a few tips going in?..Anti aircraft defenses…valuable targets…etc.
Thank You Community. Sounds exciting, getting bored with game, and looking at Sim as well.

Nuclear escalation is an expanded air realistic mode with infinite respawning (with SL penalty) its much more CAS focused than one life deathmatch like ARB is.

ground vehicles are AI targets rather than tank players, keep away from spaas as they are basically death spheres from how overtuned they are, also stay low as enemy radar systems will spot you and SAM batteries will shoot at you from a very long range and can kill you if you dont stick to multipath alts

its completely replaced “classic” RB for me now
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