double low in one update lol
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Yeah, it’s a pretty strange choice. Belgium is currently missing its own low-tier aircraft, since most of what they do have in-game is concentrated in the mid to higher tiers. Outside of the Hunter, they essentially already have most of the fighters they operated from the 1950s onward.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, is almost the opposite case. They have WWII-era Fokkers, but very little post-war aviation content aside from aircraft like the Sea Fury, Hunter, and NF-5A (I’m excluding event vehicles, since not everyone has access to those).
Because of that, I would’ve expected a Dutch F-16 instead, since that would finally give the Netherlands a proper post-1970s aircraft. Belgium, meanwhile, would have benefited much more from lower-tier aircraft like the Renard 36/37, rather than a copy-paste of an aircraft they already have.
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Honestly i would gladly slash the number of Belgian vehicles in half provided the remaining half be replaced with unique vehicles. Quantity does not replace quality for me
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3 Belgian F-16s is already a lot, make it Dutch at least and let’s hope we get more unique french stuff in the future.
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They could make it Jordanian because they operate the Leclerc MBT
Well, I have good news for the people who also wanted this change.
Gaijin has officially confirmed that the premium F-16AM for France will be changed from a Belgian BAF, aircraft to a Dutch RNLAF example.
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yeah I was expecting (and hoping) they’d release the rafale M f1 as the rank VIII premium plane. I was really worried they’d do this instead because now they’ve released an F-16 that hard power creeps my Netz (mod) as a premium
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I don’t see how the F-16AM powercreeps the Netz. They’re in completely different BR brackets and don’t even share a tech tree. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both modified versions of the F-16A.
value proposition.
basically I wouldn’t have bought the Netz if I knew the F-16AM was coming is the litmus test here and the fact of the matter so it’s buyer’s remorse
He’s got a pretty good point. They can always change it.
Unless they would make it Magic II only that absolutely wouldn’t happen lmao.
Any Mirage 2000 or Rafale with MICA is 14.0-14.3 minimum and thus not happening as a premium.
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This would’ve been the better choice and people were hyped for it too Mirage F1EM VI: The Ultimate F1 - #2 by Shin_Kazama the perfect 13.0
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13.3 at minimum, probably even 13.7. This is still MICA we are talking about.
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13.3 maximum because it only gets four of them.
4 MICA is absolutely not 13.3 maximum lmao. I went off the assumption of max 2 MICA for 13.3, but 4 of them is easily 13.7.
If you think 4x MICA is balanced at 13.3 you have clearly never used them lmao.
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Yes. I can easily see a Mirage F1EM carrying two Magic missiles and two MICAs being balanced at 13.0. If the aircraft were allowed to carry four missiles in total, it would certainly be strong, but not broken at 13.3. You have to consider that it would still be carrying fewer missiles than many of the jets it faces.
They would be very powerful missiles, but you wouldn’t have many of them quality over quantity. It reminds me of the A-6E TRAM because it has excellent missiles mounted on an okay platform. The aircraft would be carried by the strength of its missile loadout, and that’s about it.
13.3 with 2 magic IIs and 2 MICAs is okay, 13.0 is delusional as MICAs are just free kills at that BR.
4 MICAs is just an instant 13.7.
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As much as I love the Mirage F1, the problem is that the F1EM is essentially a pig with makeup. Once those missiles are gone you’re just flying a Mirage F1 with a few upgrades while fighting vastly superior airframes.
I can’t lie, it would be incredibly abusable, and I’d probably find myself doing exactly that to Su-30s because I hate fighting them so much. It would be a great aircraft simply because you’d have four incredibly potent missiles that could realistically translate into four guaranteed kills in the right hands.
I still stand by 13.3
Fair point. That said the F-14D may have just set a precedent for premiums creeping into areas gaijin previously didn’t touch. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they went straight to releasing some premium 5th gens upon 5th gen’s release
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