It’s way better than an F-4S vs an Mig23.
And having Aim-9Ls I would say does make it balanced
Eh, not really ACM MTI really doesn’t work when flying at tree top height but if you fly slightly above maybe like 200m or so you’re gonna get hit by a 24R.
Gonna be real I’d still take a F4E just for flight performance and gun over the Mig-23 but that’s because going fast works better for head on fights.
I think I’ve died more often to a rear aspect or side aspect R24T then a R24R but I digress.
What is even the difference between Js and Ls? They both pretty much get flared easily
All aspect and G pull also burn time which means more range.
Js are rear aspect, and harder to flare.
All aspects. That’s about it. 9Ls are 1 flare defeat most of the time. Especially Vs the MLDs LCMs. Only way you die to a 9L is by failing to flare
Not really. The F-4E doesn’t see a jumbo jet in low altitude, so it would just flying blind while russian players will rush in with their Yak-141, R-27 and R-73s while US sides best missile is Aim-9L and the PD Phantoms doesn’t even have any All Aspect IRs.
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Shooting Ls is 90% of the time a waste, only viable when enemy is oblivious
One time I had success with it when I shot it <1KM from the enemy, the missile actually hit him as we merged and he couldn’t flare it
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Lol F15A with 9M
What?
I’ve only seen MiG-23s in my F-4S
we are talking about the lower bracket, aren’t we?
It doesn’t appear you are
You have a chance go be put into a high BR bracket match, and a chance to be put into the a lower BR bracket match when queuing with a 12.0 plane.
For me queuing with the F-4S it has been about 50/50 up or down bracket. (NA server fwiw)
Lower bracket won’t see R27 R73 take 141 lol
Only way you see those is if you play the higher bracket.
At which point all the preset planes are trash. Imo the lower tier bracket is more balanced but the problem you described makes it seem like the US has nothing when in the high tier bracket
oh okay, sorry, my mistake, I somehow had in mind, that the Yak-141 also appears in the lower bracket wich it doesn’t with 12.7, I’m sorry
10.3-12.0 low tier
11.7-13.0 high tier
Honestly it should be 10.3-11.7 and then 12.0-13.0
I’ve been 100% downtiers in it, on NA servers.
Strangely, with only the MiG-25 in my lineup, somehow I was put into a 13.0 match last night with my buddies.
We all just backed out, we weren’t going to do much lol
nope. im already pulling up sharply at the last 9km and it refuses to appear
Gonna need new high quality maps to run SEAD now, also messes with my early game pathing T^T
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Ahhhh, have you been only playing in a squad? That seems to greatly change how the queue’s work. Especially with joining ongoing matches. Someone else (was it you? Lol.) said they have not gotten ANY ongoing matches while queuing with at least 1 other friend.
So, if you have always been in a group, that might be why you have not seen any uptiers with the F-4S. I have had lots of them, every day since the start of the event when I have the F-4S in my lineup.