Planned Battle Rating Changes (January 2026)

AIR SIMULATOR

MiG-19S 9.7 → 10.0

Very strong engines ensure it has unbeatable sustained turn rate, and is generally very VERY strong in any kind of dogfight.

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PLEASE GAIJIN do it pleassssssseeeeeeeeeeee

Dont dogfight em ?

J-11A should NOT go to 13.7 my man, its hilariously bad

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J-11A is a 13.0 Flanker with the wrong Radar, RWR, and R-77s are by far the lowest range ARH alongside Derby.

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JH-7

BR: 11.3 → 11.7

11.3 with a good airframe, and IRCCM missiles should not be permitted

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F-16I Sufa - 14.0 to 13.7 in Air Realistic.

There is no noticeable difference between the Sufa and the F-16C in the United States, which exists at 13.7.

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no no it should its the reason there moving the F15A down

Good luck lol it can also catch up/outclimb any other 9.7 subsonic. I played the 19S and it was super easy to do well in.

No F-14s? No AIM-9L missiles for the F-14A? No AIM-9M missiles for the F-14B? And the IRIAF F-14 won’t have R-73 missiles? If the F-15A is going for a 12.7 BR, the F-14s should be going for a 12.0 or 12.3 BR

It makes no sense that they end up with a higher battle ratio than the F-15A, and they should remove the nerfs or buffs to the AIM-54 because they’re useless; I get more kills with the AIM-7 than with the AIM-54.

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Mode: GRB
Vehicle: H-34 France
BR: 8.0 → 7.7

Reason: massive frame, slow and with only 2 3KM ATGMs, it was perfectly balanced at 7.7 there was no reason to put it to 8.0

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these cannot fight top tier. maybe for j11b but the su30mk have bad radar for that br

FR-1 Fireball
Air Realistic

4.3->4.7 Can simply dive and outrun everything it wants while also being able to dogfight a good chunk of planes. No business being able to see 3.3

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Vehicle: BMPT/BMPT72
Modes: All
Change: Remove this RNG-based explosion of “external” belt and make it explode every time. The whole BR change thing could have been avoided if BMPT was properly modeled without making things up.

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F-16A ADF, cn F-16A MLU, it F-16A ADF
Air RB
13.3 → 13.7
Literally ZERO business at 13.3 when the French F-16AM and F-16C are at 13.7, just give them 9M’s even though everyone brings 6x AIM-120A.

BVR is a pointless gameplay style(besides killing people who are completely clueless)
The Su-27SM is better than the J-11B in air RB
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/s/IUAvwonI0M

If 14.7 is getting added, shouldn’t everything just get shifted up to fit the new br bracket?

With how empty 14.0BR is, it’s very disappointing to not see the strongest 13.7s like the F-15C, SU-27SM, J-10A, etc… Moved up. Their compression into 13.0 is unbearable.

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J-7D, and MiG-21MF/SMTs should be higher BR as well IMO.

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Once again, you dont understand the core issue, which isnt APHE itself but poor damage models that allow for rounds to slip through.

Putting them at 9.0 will do nothing to their anti-tank performance and “protecting lower brs” also doesnt solve any issues but instead creates new ones where lineups now lack their only way to defend against already oppressive cas.

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