You might mix this up - Bearcats just saw no combat service, they were operational long before V-J day. Same as P-51 D-30s or P-51 H-5s - operational but no combat records.
Famous example for a post-war aircraft is the F4U-4b…or the Spits F 22 & F 24 (just the F 21 saw combat) - and ofc the Yak-3U…
Confidence should be based on facts, not believes…
11.7 for bmpt is not enough, it deserve 12.3 or 12.7 due to his armement that pen anything from the front and survability with all his armor that eat any apfds round like nothing happen plus a crewless turret. It is better than most of top br vehicule, it deserve to be classify as it and have the good br (12.x)
BR: 8.3 → 8.7/9.0 (all gamemodes)
There’s no reason for it to be 8.3 anymore. Out of everything, an autoloaded 105 with 30mm SAPHEFI should be moved up AT LEAST.
the very obvious ammo and crew placement should not decide the battle rating, so in turn it should be moved up to at least 8.7 or 9.0. End of discussion.
Reasoning:
its worse in everyway if you compared to the other 14.7 flanker (Su-30SM2). Worse radar, worse flight model, less fox 3, worse fox 3 and half the countermeasures. Even if you compare it to the 14.3 SU-30 the only thing is gets is better engines at the cost of less fox 3, worse fox 3, no R-27ER and less countermeasures.
Reason: This plane is not only slow as hell, but also has unreliable firepower as its MG-151 guns are very incompetent at 6.0. IT SHOULD NOT HAVE ITS BR UP AT ALL.
why are asago and alano still 3.7 ??? cant fight destroyers and can be killed by everything that have a 1x 40mm or a few 20mm and it has no speed to dodge destroyers shooting it from spawn its ha brutal experience…
reasoning: this vehicle has just about 0 reason to be a higher br than the T80U-E1 considering it has basically the same capabilitys except worse gun handling and better reverse speed this BR change would give japan access to a better 12.0 lineup instead of having 1 over br,d 12.3 tank
I would vote if you mentioned lack of engine power, but I can’t vote for a weapons’ complaint cause its sheer volume of fire is one of the things I do enjoy about it.