Planned Battle Rating Changes for February 2025

Oh boy, a whole load of low tier SPAA going up! Because we just can’t have anything good now, can we?

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Vehicle: ADATS (UK)
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 11.7 —> 11.0
Reason: It is extremely weak vs any fixed wing CAS and is only really usable vs helis. It’s performance is comprable to that of lower SPAA such as the 2S6 but is it at a much higher BR due to its ability to kill tanks, which it is extremely poor at doing.

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It’s significantly better than all other gepard style SPAA, the fact it’s the same BR with high gen thermals, PESA radar and AHEAD is pretty criminal

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Simulator Battles, A-10C, 11.7 > 12.0 / 12.3.

The A-10C has always been very potent in simulator battles since its launch. It still dominates red side fighters with little effort. It gets 4 IRCCM missiles which are the best for simulator battles, Very good sustained turn performance with very low stall speed, vast arsenal of A-G ordnance, MAWS with a lot of countermeasures. It is a very good all-rounder in simulator battles now.

Its potency has only increased with the introduction of GBU-39 glide bombs. It can effectively clear 1.5 front-line battles by itself or it can clear airfield AA of two airfields without any risk of getting close (and effectively sets up allies to spawn camp enemy team). No other plane has this capability until top tier.

One might argue that this plane is slow and it justifies the low BR, that isn’t a weakness IMO. Being slow makes it very easy to fly low without crashing and makes you invulnerable to any radar missile.

Air to Air combat dynamics differ greatly between air RB and SB. A-10C holds the advantage in SB with its advanced armaments (for the BR), situational awareness with passive IFF and all aspect MAWS, countermeasures that can last a long time even with periodic dispenser enabled.

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Harrier GR.1 9.7>9.3 (unless its countermeasure pod gets added)

As it stands currently it is under performing hugely as its a good airframe but is out performed by the AV-8C at the same br as the Sraam missiles while good self destruct after 2km and without flares in uptiers its horrible to play especially with more and more all aspect missiles at its br

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Leopard A1A1 , GRB , 9.0 > 8.7.

Give me a singular reason to play it over TAM, besides armor. I get better mobility, which honestly matters more imho.

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Leopard2A4 (All) Should be given the ability to use DM33 APFSDS

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yak141: exists

FR. i use this often and i still think it should go higher

Please decrease the AMX 13 HOT’s BR, its abhorrent in its current BR bracket.
The vehicle is abhorrent at 8.3 and sucks.

8.3 —> 8.0 at least, or maybe even 7.7
:pray:

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I’d say no higher than 12.0 at the moment as there is no 12.3 bracket, moving it to 12.3 would be the same as moving it to 12.7 and that would be DOA for it.

Air RB, JH-7A, 12.3-12.0 or keep the BR with PL-5E2 added.
The JH-7A seems to get some good missles, but with a BR at 12.3, it got no IRCCM. The same BR MIG-21BISON, which can also carry 4 IR missles, but both of R-27T and R-73 have IRCCM.

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tbh that doesnt even have its full planed ordinance (R77 and R73)

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F-20 should be moved its pretty horrible

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Merkava mk3 (All versions)
GRB 11.3 → 11.0 or give 5 seconds of reloading similar to mk4
The combination of running characteristics, survivability and protection is not comparable with competitors of other nations on this BR, and the shell does not fully compensate for all the shortcomings of the vehicle.

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R2Y2, All variants, RB: 8.0 → 7.3.
These planes are horribly overtired thanks to their airspawn (now removed) and guns (now nerfed). Before they are removed from the game, it would make sense to re-balance them.

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Hey gaijin how about you fix the Improved Chaparral for Israel instead of moving it down in br???

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Ground Realistic battle, Type 69, 8.0>8.3. Reason: it has two-plane-stablizer, APFSDS, and laser range finder. No way it’s lower than T-55A.

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maybe because it barely has any missiles at all IRL

Vehicle: Shenyang F-5
Gamemode: Air Realistic
BR Change: 9.3 —> 9.0
Reason: Its very weak, there’s no point being at the same BR with such things as Lightning, 104s, J-35A(four same missiles with next-gen FM), etc. Just give this subsonic MiG-17PF with two R-3S missiles some rest.

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