Tbh, its a pretty fun event. Much better than air RB, as the “ground pounding” is actually meaningful and the SPAA sets some limits early game. Also better than the previous MiG 21 vs Phantom with oil refineries.
Russia should get a "phantom-type’ of multirole fighter tho, as a free option. To level out the playing field.
the one we have is one of the more early versions, at least in tech tree as so they claim, VS the one in nuclear thunder which is a gulf war setup, similarly with the A-7E, the normal tech tree one doesn’t get the AIM-9Ls
Is there any official reason other countries can’t use their aircraft in this gamemode? Just leave the free planes available for nuclear duty but allow people to use their lineup planes.
USSR side should be able to be played with German and Hungarian MiG-29, and Chinese planes. While USA side can feature all the F-series planes other nations have, on top of stuff like Viggen, Jas-39A, Tornado F3/ADV and Mirages.
GW version would have AIM-9M, AIM-7M, various targeting and jamming pods, this is more just post vietnam fit for the F-4 and company with anachronistic AGM-88 time traveling.
USSR is better.
Mig-29 9.13 has functioning TWS and R-27ERs.
Which makes speedrunning the nuke far easier than with American options.
Namely the only American option that can match its pace are F-15A and F-18A, and F-18A & F-14 TWS is bugged, at least for those matches.
The exclusive loss as Soviets was because B52 wasn’t intercepted in time.