Currently these vehicles, which are merely a missile tube on a simple tracked platform, are the same BR as fully fledged IFVs like the Bradley and Warrior. Let me list what these two have above the post’s subjects: proper APDS firing autocannon, better moblity (both forwards and in reverse), better armor (do not die to .5 cals and they are not overpressured by artillery landing a few meters away), gen 1 (or even 3!) thermals, stabilisers or very fast aiming speeds, fully traversible turrets (M113A1’s have a limited firing arc), scouting and drones
What do M113’s have in comparison? 200mm more penetration on their missiles against the Bradley or better depression against the Warrior (which actually has BETTER missiles!). This performance gap is just unnecessarily large. And that was even before the TOW guidance change which was a massive nerf for this vehicle - a reduction in BR should bring justice to it.
Reason: The loadout is pitiful compared to other aircraft at and lower br like the AMX, Jaguar and
Super etendard . F111C can carry 4 GBUs with gen 1 thermal pod but with no gun or missiles. You can see its comparable with the buccaneer S.2B. F111C get thermals, 4 GBU’s faster and more countermeasures, But buccaneer gets 3 TV atgms and 4 1000lb bombs. So the F111C is just a side grade for the buccaneer hence it’s br should decrease
I wholeheartedly disagree with the Air RB changes from BRs 10.0 upwards. It looks like it’s just the top tier fox3-capable jets causing problems for ones without fox3s, so please move those up an additional 0.3BR instead of erasing all of your decompression progress from the previous changes where you lifted the ceiling by 0.7BR. Air RB became much healthier for the decompression, please don’t ruin that.
I do like the changes in the 9.X BR range for the most part. Getting some decompression on the supersonic strikers is nice to see.
I’d like to suggest the F-104A/C in the US and Chinese trees go from 9.0 → 9.7/10.0 because despite their manoeuvrability nerfs, they’re still extremely capable seeing as manoeuvrability was never their strength. They’re untouchable to virtually everything at or below 9.7 and are still very potent in full uptiers, let alone downtiers.
As it currently stands the Ki-94 is an overtiered mess of an aircraft thats almost unplayable its not only slower than every other 6.0 fighter or interceptor, but also has far worse maneuverability than all of them and worse climbrate than most.
Vehicle: Lightning F6 & Lightning F.53
Gamemode: Air Realistic
BR Change: 9.3 → 9.7
Reason: It is supersonic at a BR that quite often faces sub-sonics. It’s BR should match the 9.3 F-104s, so if they move up, so should the Lightnings
BUT:
Red Tops are currently missing their all-aspect lock capabilies. With all-aspect Red Tops, it would quite comfortably sit at this higher BR without issue and maintain its current level of performance
(All-Aspect Red Tops would not be an issue at 9.7, or even at a lower BR like for the Sea-Vixen due to how easy they are to defeat kinematically)
