Historical reasons, their engines were governed to a power RPM and thus Horsepower and speed,
besides as opposed to the other Tiger IIs, the SLA.16 is only losing 80 hp and not 100hp, and had higher Horsepower to begin with (its only going to be 20hp short (680) of what the standard Tiger IIs were before (700)
speaking of F-16A (FR) and JAS39A
JAS39A is a direct improvement for ARB yet they sit at the same BR
And neither can move up or down.
god I love BR compression.
To be clear. I dont want it to increase with the current BR state. I was just defending it in the case of the decompression that WalletWorrier was suggesting. I doubt it had AIM-7Ps, the 15A was really quite early
Having aim7 against fix 3 shouldnt be a thing
It has mid radar with no tws and it doesnt even have hmd
Aim9m are nice but it doesnt have df missiles thats why even su27 might be better in df (not that it happens)
The arb meta relying on radar missiles and in that regard f15a is lacking
Reason: while the A-7K has a much better armament than the previous A-7’s do, the A-7K is still the same slow brick as its brothers and while it does carry Aim-9L’s, it can only carry 2 of them making the ability to use the missile and get kills a difficult endeavor as most planes will easily outrun you or very easily flare the Aim-9L.