Planned Battle Rating Changes (October 2026) — Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Decompression

J35XS BR should not be lowered.
Its perfectly okay at 10.3. Lowering its br will only cause trouble calling for nerfs. It already destroys full downtier 9.3-10.3 matches. A lot of lower br jets would need to be balanced around it.

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P-51H-5-NA

Air & Ground Realistic

6.3 → 6.7

From what most people say, this is the best prop in the game, but it is somehow only at 6.3, while there is other fighters that is at a higher BR that it. At the same time an aircraft that have similar performance the Spitfire Mk 24 is moving up to 7.0 in GRB, while this is currently only 6.3.

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what super etendard is going to 11.7 in ground?

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Vehicle: F/A-18C (Early), CF-118A, F/A-18C (Germany)
Gamemode: Air Realistic
BR Change: 12.7 → 13.0

Reason: It is time for them to raise in BR, Sparrows have been buffed recently plus 7P has IOG+DL and they’re essentially a mini Flanker
Extra Note: same as said on F/A-18A, give them AIM-9M idk or treat it like F-16A ADF

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F2G-1

Air & Ground Realistic

6.0 → 6.3

One of the best props in the games, able to easily climb to an altitude where it chooses the engagement. It is also able to carry a decent CAS armament in the from of 2x 1000lb bombs.

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Not this sh1te again please.

I would like to NOT be forced to enter a close range fight against people with 4 buffed Sparrows please thank you. R73s are just longer range R60s at this point, one flare and its gone. If I could I’d give up all R73s/R60s just to be able to carry more ERs.

Let us have our 2 good Sniper missiles in the SARH meta.

It’s also not ahistorical. The DCS 9-12A can also carry ERs.
What happened was that the the ERs were retrofitted to existing 9-12s, that resultst for example in their TWS not displaying the correct max range when an ER was fitted (it still thought it carried Rs). But it could fire and use ERs normally. This myth seriously needs to die like yesterday.

Yep, and mirage 2000d-r1 to 12.3, completely murder those two, you either uptiered the tanks to use them or the plane as there isnt a line up for either of them.

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Typo, copied over from the other Kfir messages

2A5 still being higher than M1A1HC / M1A2 while being objectively worse in every relevant way is wild

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You forgot the a-4b

A-4B: 8.7 → 9.3 ground

Access to 3 Bullpups which are 3 free kills and it faces 0 capable spaa

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They should have gone to 14.0 with the current overall changes

Vehicle: EC-665 Tiger HAP
Gamemode: Air Realistic/Ground Realistic
BR Change: 10.0 —> 10.0
Reason: This helicopter only carries HOT-3 missiles. It already gets outranged by most SPAAs at that Battle Rating. It will be completely useless at 10.7. The BR increase to 10.7 doesn’t make any sense. Leave it at 10.0.

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No… The Centurion is good at 6.0. The 17lber is amazing and you get access to apds as a secondary shell to handle uptiers.

F-102A (GR+USA)

9.0->8.7

Even the buffs won’t make them worth their BR. Having 2 mediocre missiles and 7.62mm guns wont help the already useless aircraft at all.

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that you dont quote first part of it.
It will hit hard on communist planes.
Even that there is 1 instant death plane what has f&f IR missiles.
Both chinese and soviet planes.
These BR changes will just make it complete CAS fest for every other country.

F-102A & F-102A (Israel)


Changes:

Reasoning: Despite the fact that the Bug Reporting Managers, extending to the WT developers as well, believe that the legacy Falcon missiles (AIM-4A/B/C/D) are “inferior versions” compared to the AIM-4F and AIM-4G Falcons, it has been proven otherwise. The AIM-4A through AIM-4D missiles have higher impulse power, meaning they travel faster and achieve higher g-loads compared to the slow and steady AIM-4F and AIM-4G. Not only are these legacy Falcons superior to the AIM-4F/G, but it is also ahistorical for the F-102A to carry the AIM-4F and AIM-4G because the F-102A cannot fit those missiles into its bay, as reported in the outstanding bug report.

Relevant topic for more information:

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ABSOLUTELY NOT. With that radar its just fine at 14.0. Besides J-11B is better in EVERYTHING except 2 less radar missiles. Mirage 2K I agree they should all go to 14.3. Don’t ruin a jet for others please because you struggle playing against it

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Mind you the MiG-25 is still at 11.0, this is bullshit

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found something else; only the japanese stingray is on here, they forgot the american one lol

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Is this really correct?

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Top BR for Ground is increasing by two steps so the AJS increasing by 4 is effectively giving them a 2 step BR increase, that doesn’t sound right at first glance.

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